Our Story

Because many ministries are mostly city-based there is the tendency for us to think that the Gospel is available to everybody but when you go to the rural areas you would know that a lot is happening there – animism, witchcraft and so many things happening. There is ignorance of the highest order. 

So, it has been a burden and that was what led to the establishment of Hope Ministries Africa Network and our vision is to ensure that the countries of Africa are reached with the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and in particular, the area we call the 10-40 window which spans the Sahel Region and some Northern Parts of Africa that are yet to be reached with the Gospel.   

How do we achieve this?

We have to engage missionaries, bring them on board and then send them out and adequately provide for them to do the job. 

After I left the missionary organisation I worked, I saw with my own eyes Missionary Agencies that would recruit people, send them out into the field and abandon them there.  I encountered missionary families being ridiculed in some villages because they were abandoned and they resorted to stealing and they would steal villagers animals and birds and then it was such a ridiculous and shameful thing.

So, I made up my mind that this is something that must be done and done differently.  I saw it better done at World Outreach School of Missions – the way we were taking care of our missionaries back then, we provided for them adequately and got people to adopt them from America.

The missionaries were always having allowances sent to them every month and these were designated funds that must not be touched by any one.  I ensured that the funds were delivered as sent by various donors and you know today, to the glory of God I can boast of having graduates in most parts of the world that were beneficiaries of the scholarship for missions training by World Outreach Missions Incorporated and they are now leading Evangelists, Prophets, Pastors and so on.

This is my story and I am very much in contact with some of them and I am proud of what they’re doing.  If the seeds were not sown then there’s no way it would have germinated to bring forth this kind of groomed men and women of God today, and so we are committed to ensuring that we continue that vision because along the line the Visioneers dropped the idea and diverted to congregational based church in Atlanta.  Hope Ministries Network Africa is therefore borne out of our burning desire to carry on the work of not only ensuring that the work of missions goes on, but to also continue to send and support Missionaries. 

The Work Must Go On

Mission work is very demanding.  It doesn’t really bring money but it gives out money.  It gives out material things and time so we are not afraid.  It’s a call and it has to be fulfilled.  So our vision is to ensure that the Gospel reaches the unreached peoples of the world to ensure that young men and women who want to be involved in propagating the Gospel are supported, encouraged and shown the way unlike what is happening in most churches today where many don’t know or care about missions.  There’s a kind of distraction and people believe that city-based churches is the only thing that they can do because of the attraction but we are engaged in the unpopular one, which is the work of missions and there’s no way we can do it alone. This is why were are inviting people to join us and then of course we have to lead the way.