Message from Miss Victoria Owiredu, the President during the Maiden Council Meeting on November 7, 2009

Mr. Chairman,
Distinguished Members of Council,
Ladies and Gentlemen

Good evening and thank you for your love, respect and belief in this God-given ministry into which, I am convinced, He has called us all.  Who else, apart from you, would have responded to my humble invitation to join me in promoting the rights and privileges of the needy and underprivileged in our society? Today is perhaps one of the happiest days in my life because here I am in the midst of intelligent, humble, experienced and God-fearing men and women, ready to glean from their rich experiences in life that would guide me in this calling.

Had it not been for the fact that God has appointed you as Angels in human form to help a young daughter like me to do His work, there will be no way you would have been here today. God bless you for seeing something greater than I can even see in this vision.  My prayer will continue to be that you leave long in order to remain on my side and support me, my future husband and my family in this work.

The name Vessels of Victory was born out of a deep reflection regarding the Hope and Victory that await some vessels of God that many of us in society have labeled orphans, needy and underprivileged.  I see these vessels as victorious because there is no Victor greater than their Father in Heaven, the maker of all of us; somehow they happen to be on the other side because they have  more physical and emotional needs than we do.  The point is, their plight must put us under pressure to provide for them.  Provision here means, seeing their needs ahead of them and meet them on time.  According to Matthew 25:31-46, it is required of every Christian to clothe and feed the needy, quench the thirst of the poor, visit the sick and the prisoner, and show hospitality to the stranger.  God will judge everyone according to how he or she treats Jesus through the needy.  James the brother of Jesus says:
“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unstained from the world” (James 1:27) NIV