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FEATURE

Pastor Michael Ekwulugo’s
Transformation Life Centre
has undergone a lot of change
since the church moved into
new premises on the High Street
and began to attract a different
audience.

‘To help me prepare I also listen to a lot
of stand-up. There’s a lot to be learned
because these guys really hold people’s
attention and their message is so relevant
and as they’re talking we’re laughing – they
have this knack and this gift of bringing to
life things we experience every day…

‘We started to get people from all
sectors of the community. There’s
quite a large concentration of Eastern
Europeans: Polish, Romanian people.
There’s also a bit of a drug problem
locally – and because we have a lot of
outreach and we run a food bank, a lot
of the people that we work with will just
wander in. We know them by name so
they’ll sit down and really interact, not
exactly heckle but they’ll sit down and
let’s just say all inhibitions are gone.

‘I honour the Holy Spirit when I speak,
so whatever it is I feel the Holy Spirit places
on my heart that day, it’s imperative to me
that I convey that, that I’m faithful to that.

‘One of the main changes we made
is the timing of everything. In black
majority churches it’s OK to turn up
in the morning and leave whenever…
so that was one of t H;