Outreach Report from Lagos & Nigeria
15-Jun-11 10:56 AM Category: Africa


We had a service also attended by my wife and three daughters. You could see their faces lit with joy as the villagers listened to the Word of God which I preached to them in their native Tiv language. They were obviously hungry for the Word. They said they had never heard the Bible explained in this way before. I took many of them to the water for baptism. Among those baptized were my mother, a woman over ninety years old and my cousin, Torve , who had been long in his denomination but had become disillusioned. The Lord dealt with him in a supernatural way. Though, uneducated, he understood the Message very fast and was helping to explain it to others. After seeking the Lord’s face, I encouraged him to oversee the church. He has no form of education but can read in the local language. With his Tiv Bible and the little he had learnt from me the Lord began to use him.

Torve caught the fire of the Message and evangelized the village with a great deal of zeal. Within a short time, close to forty people were attending services. They built a makeshift hall roofed with thatch for worship. A wave of persecution soon arose from denominational leaders leading to an exodus of many members. But God raised a standard and some of the brethren who had left later came back. In a renewed zeal, Brother Torve is taking the Gospel to neighbouring villages. His brother in-law, Iyorhon, who had been staying with him, went back to his own village called Ahungwa and preached the Message and another church came into being!
By August 2010, the two churches organized a convention and sent for me. During the meeting, thirty one people were baptized including two elderly men aged seventy and eighty years respectively. The joy of the Lord filled the hearts of every one as they danced, sang and played local musical instruments of worship. A third local church has now been added after a denominational preacher also embraced the Message and started preaching it in his village.

The Lord also led Brother Henry Agunbiade, Pastor of Bible Faith Restoration Tabernacle, Offa, to carry out another Gospel campaign in Buruku area of Tivland where over fifty souls received the Message and were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. By his second visit of the area early this year 2011, a church had been built by the brethren there using local materials. We expect more harvest of souls as the Message spreads further into remote areas of Benue and other states of the central Nigerian region. Through the help of Africa Coordinator of the Message Hub, Brother Victor Adimora, and Brother Steven Kuku, a print station has been delivered and installed for Brother Agunbiade.

Calvary Message Assembly,
Ejigbo, Lagos, Nigeria.