SHOCKING BUT GLORIOUS EXIT OF A BELIEVER IN CHRIST, LATE MRS CYNTHIA GYANG

SHOCKING BUT GLORIOUS EXIT OF A BELIEVER IN CHRIST, LATE MRS CYNTHIA GYANG

by Ayuba Yilgak'ha

Ysterday, Sunday, August 22, 2021, something unusual happened in my local assembly (church), Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), Local Church Council (LCC), Ji-yep, Regional Church Council (RCC), Gigiring, Hwolshe, Jos South Local Government Council (LGC) of Plateau State.

While the church service was on-going, Late Cynthia Gyang who joined a Chorester, Mrs. Ladi Bella Gushem on stage to sing a special number (song) slumbed and was rushed to the hospital only to confirm she was dead!

When the deceased fell down, myself and indeed most members of the congregation thought, she was dramatising the song which was titled, "Love" but the story turn out to be different!

Earlier, a preacher brother Momoh had preached a sermon which text he took from Isaiah Chapter 6 from verses 1... 

During the sermon, the preacher dwelled on the need for the congregation (Christians) to identify their individual "Uzziah (s)" (symbolic of anything that could hinder them from seeing God) and prayed for grace to do away with it, noting, that was the only way to serve God effectively. The preacher thereafter make alter call for those who wanted to surrender their lives to Christ and the deceased promptly responded; not knowing, I guess, that was going to be her last day in a church service.

Reacting to the dramatic death, Leading Pastor of the Church Reverend Chaison Nyam. Joshua observed that Late, Mrs Cynthia Gyang was so lucky to have gone to be with the Lord her Creator in the manner she did, and admonished the congregation to cry for themselves (if at all they must cry)! This is absolutely correct because to live in Christ and to die is a gain (Phillipines 1:21).

There were different reactions from members of the congregation. Some simply cried as others discussed how they felt about the whole incident. Whichever way one looks at it, her's was a glorious exit especially now that innocent people are indiscriminately being killed violently and sometimes without any trace of their corpse not to talk of burying them as it is the case in this country, Nigeria. More so was that the deceased, Cynthia Gyang sought the mercies of God and died in active service to Him!

It was indeed a shocking incident full of lessons for the church and mankind generally that we are all walking corpses! Anytime, anyday and anywhere, death can come knocking. Hence, the need to make our ways right with God.

May God comfort the immediate family, the entire COCIN family and indeed the state. Rest in Peace lucky one!

*Report compiled by Ayuba Yilgak'ha*