Dear Readers,

It’s with great joy I welcome you to PAROUSIA Magazine Incarnation Issue 7 – Christmas 2017. I am pleased to say PAROUSIA Magazine is two, it‘s been two years of God’s faithfulness in promoting Christian Arts and Literature.

I am glad we’ve come a long way together in a short time, thanks for your consistency in your contributions, submissions and readership of this Magazine. Your work is our product, your satisfaction when it comes to Christian Arts and Literature is our profit. I’m delighted to say PAROUSIA Magazine is not relenting in promoting Christian Literature. We’ve set the pace. We’re getting better and growing stronger.

This is the Christmas season; you and I are the reason for the season of which Jesus Christ was born to bring us Forgiveness of Sins and Eternal Life (Mathew 1:21, John 10:10, 28). Our theme for this Issue is “INCARNATION” which is “The Word becoming Flesh” (John 1:1) i.e. the nativity, the birth of Jesus Christ.

INCARNATION Issue is our seventh issue which succeeds the success of our previous issues from Easter Issue 1 (2016), Purity Issue 2 (2016), September Issue 3 (2016), Christmas Issue 4 (2016), The Gospel Issue 5 (2017) and Redemption Issue 6 (2017).

In this Issue, Su’eddie Vershima Agema (Joint Winner Association of Nigerian Author Prize for Poetry 2014) will be giving  the knowledge of the magic of Christmas alongside interesting Fiction from Cecil Jones Myondela (Zimbabwe), Nsah Mala (Cameroon).

You will be enjoying an exclusive Non Fiction from Lusia Kay Reyes (USA) and a Book Review of Matshona Dhliwayo “Lalibela’s Wise Man” by Bhekimpilo Dungeni.

Also captivating Visual Arts from Vita Leo (France), Aelaf Habte Woldeyes (Ethiopia), Jumoke Osinloye (Nigeria) and Binyam Wondemagegnehu (Ethiopia) are not exempted.

This issue promises to give you poetic pleasures from the poems of Glennise Ayuk (Cameroon), Adebayo Kolawole Samuel (Nigeria), Humphrey Ogu (Nigeria), Oladele Babajamu (Nigeria), Wanangwa Mwale (Zambia), Amby C. Ezen (England), Tralone Lindiwe Khoza (South Africa), Ojo Adewale Iyanda (Nigeria), Benjamin Elemide (Nigeria), Keith A. SIMMONDS  (France) and Olatubosun David (Nigeria).

In the coming year we are looking forward to the African Cascade Issue and lots more. Till then I urge you to enjoy INCARNATION ISSUE 7 and experience the Word in Flesh through the distinct Stories, Visual Arts and Poetry.

I am wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Grace Filled New Year.

Blessings

Tola Ijalusi

Managing Editor | Publisher