Thousands turned out on Saturday to bid goodbye to the former Assistant Secretary of the Press Union of Liberia, Henry Boyld Flomo.
Flomo served as former president of the Sport Writers’ Association of Liberia while holding several positions at the Liberia Football Association and Wrestling Association.
He was a law student who lastly served as Director of Communications at the National Elections Commission (NEC) while offering lectures at the university as well as mentoring young journalists on elections reporting. Flomo died suddenly while attending a weeklong training organized by NEC in Ganta, Niba County on February 25, 2024.
On March 30, he was interred at the Shaita Cemetery in Careysburg but at his funeral service held on the same day at the Jireh International Church, in the Dry Rice Market Community, Barnersville, the Resident Pastor, Veronica Clarke, told the congregation that Christianity is not by the dress code, but rather, walking in the footsteps of Jesus.
Pastor Clarke said if you refuse to forgive people around, you die outside of Christ and the essence of bidding a deceased peace is not significant because one’s life on earth gives you peace and how you will rest when you die is nobody’s choice.
Pastor Clarke spoke on the theme: “There will be a roll call,” calling on human beings to repent when they are alive because in the grave, there is no repentance and Jesus will surely demand of each person, accountability.
“Jesus did not keep speech from people who harmed him, but rather he asked for their forgiveness even on the cross, therefore, remember that God will require of us each to give an account,” she maintained stating that human beings should try to avoid the last death spoken about in Revelation.
According to her, it is the disobedience of Adam and Eve that brought deaths, pains, disappointments, frustrations, and regrets to us, but God being a loving God, sent his only son to redeem mankind.
She added, “Some of us regularly go to church and even sing in the choir, but God is not in us; nobody should name a person after someone especially in death with the notion that, that person has returned, for God will judge us but once so everyone will be judged individually not on the representation of another.”
