Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Lagos Region 12, FESTAC Mega Axis Headquarters, has given succour to members of Amuwo-Odofin community, including the Muslims in the neighbourhood as it donated rice to 326 members and non-members of the church.
The food packs were meant to help alleviate hunger and improve the well-being of the beneficiaries.
The church also empowered 28 pastors and ministers’ wives and other female ministers, as well as widows with cash gift of N250,000 each totalling N7 million.
The cash gift was meant to enhance their capacity to support their business for those who already have businesses or start a small one for those who have nothing doing.
According to the Mega Regional Overseer, Pastor Irabor Enojiasun, his wife Mrs. Modesola Enojiasun, Brother Mark Tokula, Chairman MRO Empowerment Committee and Mrs Funke Nwobu, executive member of the MRO committee, the cash gift would enable the ministers’ wives, especially widows to pursue their passions and projects and foster growth and development in their ministries while the food and cash gifts for educational support would put smiles on faces of beneficiaries.
They revealed that the gesture was part of the Explosive Evangelism Initiative (EEI) of the church to capture more souls for Christ.
They stressed that beneficiaries of the business grant included pastors’ wives, two widows and two female ministers.
To ensure brilliant but indigent students have access to quality education, the church gave N40,000 to 12 indigent students.
Presenting the gifts, MFM Director of Administration, International Headquarters, Pst. Temitope Akin Olawale, revealed that welfare of members and the people is of utmost importance to the MFM worldwide.
Olawale said the General Overseer of MFM, Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya, had given a marching order to the church across the world to ensure that lives were touched physically through different corporate social responsibility programmes, apart from the biblical teachings and deliverance prayers the church believes in.
He said the church was continuously digging boreholes across the country to give the masses potable water.
Olawale revealed that through the welfare ministry of the church, different bills of members are being settled, members trained and empowered with starter packs in different skills of their choice, while others are given tools as well as cash gift to empower them in their businesses.
He maintained that winning souls for Christ was paramount to the heart of the General Overseer while the needs of the people were also met physically.
Pastor Johson Olatunbosun, head of ‘We care’ Ministry of the church, added that MFM had made significant positive impacts through Prison and Orphanage Evangelism and several food gifts. He added that the church pays for the release of inmates with bailable offences.
Chairman of Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area thanked MFM Festac branch for its positive impact on the local government, transformation in repairs of the 7th Avenue Road in Festac, provision of free medical outreach for the masses, as well as engagement in different trainings, skills acquisition programmes like free bakery initiatives and leaving people better than they met them irrespective of their religious affiliations and ethnic biases.
Speaking on behalf of beneficiaries, Mrs. Victoria Okwuokei and Sister Stella noted that the gifts would lift some of the families out of depression and shame.