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Christian ladies movement with an agenda to restore the culture of the Kingdom of Heaven here on Earth. Its vision is to nurture and develop young women through mentorship to have a strong sense of love, iden- tity and purpose. Let me explain the name to you. Kingdom: We belong to the King- dom of God and we understand the values and the culture of the King- dom we are living in. Ladies: We are ladies who are re- fined, cultured, well-mannered and graceful. Diplomats: We’re representing heaven in this earthly realm. This gives us a sense of purpose. That’s basically KLD for you. TCM: Being the CEO and Founder of the Kingdom Lifestyle Pageant, can you tell us what it is all about? GTK: The pageant is an initiative of Kingdom Lady Diplomats and the focus is to project ‘heaven’s cul- ture’. This was actually a mandate given through my husband in Au- gust 2015, that the Lord wanted me to do this. The maiden edition came off earlier this year on 14th July 2018. Jesus commanded in Mark 16:15 that we ‘go into all the world and preach the Gospel’. The “world” is from the Greek word Kosmos, which denotes systems; like the arts and entertainment, media, re- ligion, business and finance, family, education, government and family. Jesus’ instruction was thus….”pen- etrate these systems and influence them with haven’s culture”. KLP has penetrated the pageantry sys- tem (arts and entertainment) to influence it with heaven’s blissful lifestyle: its godly wisdom, power, glory, healthy moral standards and the total wellbeing for humanity. Many young ladies aspire to be in pageants, which though not evil in itself has turned out to be so be- cause of misplaced values and self- ish motives. Unlike other pageants, our emphasis is more on inner quali- ties, high moral standards and man- ifestation of kingdom values rather than mere physical beauty. KLP entails intensive grooming/ mentoring sessions, where ladies are taught Kingdom standards, ef- fective communication, purpose discovery, personal branding, true identity, influential leadership and anything that will make them com- plete (holistic) and live effectively in the world, just as God intended it to be. The ‘pageant’ is just the ‘icing on the cake’ because once you par- ticipate, even before you get to the finals, you have the chance to em- bark on a project that will positively affect lives. By this we are fulfilling the great commission in style. Our focus is on ladies in the tertiary in- stitutions because that’s the ‘melt- ing pot’ of character formation, but where a lot of ignorance thrives.