Although the vision was quite clear but scary, considering the huge
funds that would be required. The enterprising young man had confessed he was
not enthusiastic about it and so decided to jettison the idea all together.
Like Jonah of old, he spread his tentacles in other business endeavours,
particularly those that would bring-in maximum profit. But the Lord was not
through with him.
The vision kept haunting him. Being a retired Register well
vast in the financial market, he believed he was not cut-out for the task of
running a media station.
Yet, one major thing he had going for him by way of
qualification for the task was his sound Catholic background, particularly the
privilege of having two siblings as Reverend Sisters. One of them,
incidentally, Rev. Sister Josephine Olagunju SHCJ, is well grounded in
communication activities. Could it be that God had put this together all along?
Prince Olagunju was still hesitant.
In the course of time, he sold some portions of land at
Lekki, determined to plough the funds into the building of a five-star hotel.
Much later, the very person he sold the land to, approached him and begged to
return it, saying he was not well disposed to making use of it any longer. A
perplexed Prince Olagunju reluctantly took it back just as he again received a
word of knowledge that the land was meant to house the television station. And,
once more like Jonah, he was caught in a delicate web he could not extricate
himself from. The rest is now history.
Three years down the line, Lumen Christi Catholic TelevisionNetwork has already become a household name across the globe as the first
privately owned Catholic television in Africa, operating in the mode of the
famed Eternal Word Television Network, EWTN.
Last Wednesday, at the occasion of
its 3rd anniversary celebration which attracted the crème of the Catholic
community across the country and Africa, the station also dedicated to God its
DSTV Channel 350, the Live Streaming Service and the Opening of the Saints
Peter and Paul Centre for Evangelization and Faith Formation- a
three-in-one event. What a journey in faith!
But while we rejoice with the founder, management and staff
of the television station which has so far done us proud, there is also need to
support them. This was re-echoed by Archbishop Adewale Martins recently. Indeed,
Prince Soji Olagunju confessed that the cost of running the station the last
three years had run into hundreds of millions. This is incontrovertible,
judging from the enormity of its coverage, especially the cost of being on
DSTV.
And so the buck is now on the court of all people of goodwill to
financially support this wonderful initiative that is helping to propagate the
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ for the benefit of humanity.
courtesy: Catholic Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria
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