A brief of FECA
In 1990, ten girls from Federal Government Girl’s College (FGGC) Calabar, Cross River State were led by God to put a lasting solution to the predominant problem, which plagued their students.
They discovered that students who had been hallmarks of integrity and undaunted devotion to God and who had been examples to their junior students were becoming opposites of all these after they graduated from college.
The junior students were becoming deeply worried that what had
happened to their role models would also happen to them.
These ten
girls met and shared the burden of the
vision with
Brother Ubong Jesse Daniel, who regularly preaches in their
college’s
chapel, who at that time was a student of the University of
Calabar
College of Medical Sciences, Cross River State, Nigeria, and also
an
ex-Student of Federal Government College (FGC) Kano. The girls began
to write
letters to other Federal Government Colleges to inform them of
the
initiative.
The young
man provided the girls with a rubber stamp and
writing
materials for the letters. He also wrote the FECA Anthem and
the motto
of FECA. Upon leaving school in 1990, the group of ten girls
(Senior
Secondary School three students) decided to correspond with each
other
through letters to encourage one another in the Lord and in
maintaining
the high standards of integrity and righteousness. They also
kept
corresponding with other students who lived outside Calabar. The
plan for
letter writing soon evolved into weekly meetings. They also
mobilized
their peers in other states to start their weekly meetings.
Brethren from Port Harcourt and those in Benin City had on their own started an identical meeting, and when they heard about the group in Calabar named FECA, they changed their names and aligned themselves fully with the vision.
Meetings also began in Enugu, Lagos, and Akure as other ex-students of various Federal Government Colleges became aware of this initiative.
Consequent to this, the name Federal Ex-students’ Christian Association was adopted and the association was officially inaugurated in 1991 in Calabar, Cross River State.
Upon
registration with Corporate Affairs Commission in Nigeria in 2008, the
association was officially registered and known as the Federation of Colleges
Ex-Students’ Christian Association (FECA).
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