Our History
In 1983, when I went left secondary school, I began to ask God to find out what he wants me to do in life. People have spoken to me about going to become a pastor. In 1985, I went to Owerri to fast to know what God is calling me to do but before I went, the Lord had shown me a vision in a dream where I was walking on the road and two men met me and they said to me “we were waiting for you” and I asked who they were, so they responded by saying that they are ministers from different nations and that God told them to go and look for me to speak to them but God did not tell me anything. In the process where we were talking Dr. Umpai came whom I know very well called my name Victor follow us God want you to come and speak to us and I follow them. Dr Umpai who is a world known evangelist from Eastern part of Nigeria. He is of the Assemblies of God Church. I followed him because I have known him. When we got there, we began to speak to the people and I saw in that audience auditorium pastors and leaders of various ranks, various calling, various nationalities. After speaking to them I went to the balcony of the venue then I woke up. As a young boy who was willing to be used by God, I was wondering how I could be the one speaking to these men whose books I was reading in order to find my path in life. In my wondering, the Lord said to me “that’s why I called you” however God already told He would send me to a man that would train me for the work. In 1986, I meet my father in the Lord as a student leader at NIFEST Owerri zone during a prayer conference for student where he came to speak. As he was speaking, the Lord said to me he was the man. After the meeting, I went to him and told me about what God said and we agreed of which the agreement necessitated my going to Aba for my industrial attachment for one year which ended up becoming two years. That was how I was able to meet with him, stayed in his house and more like others of Dr. David Dimoji and that was how it started.
Intercessor for Africa had started, then I went to Warri to speak along Christian mission then that was before my wedding what happened in the place moved the pastors to come to say they want to learn after my wedding the following my wedding was august around october (4:19)and his wife came to my house for a weekend of training the experiences was awesome when they went back to the church the senior pastor who has gone home now to be with the lord he question that i should come and train everybody in their church so they had the first national ministers conferenc-e and for me it was a thing of joy because each of the time i go to my father in the lord and he will give me counsel and advice and pray for me also so after that meeting my friend(6:53) in warri he asked about the testimonies that happened he arranged for me to come to kano to speak to the ministers he also arranged for me to go with me to switzerland to go and minister there which we did go and this time around we went there time has pass ofcourse we are now talking about 1987 we went to switzerland and spent six weeks teaching,praying and all that there in switzerland we began to setup pastors because there were coming to me to say after all this meeting when you go we need continuity we began to train them, form them and there and then the motions to start the pastor network came but being a man under authority i decided to go back first share the testimonies with my father in the lord and told him what god said we should do which he asked me to go and document on how we are going to go about it i remembered writing i think six pages document on the vision awareness ,blessation ,implementation stages of the vision and i told him i wanted to it to be aim supervise and not to be under anything each we started we began to do gradually around the country then each time there is a nigeria conference a meeting will be called to pastors who are there and another challenges i had was in those days each time we come for nigeria conference the way they people speaks about pastors the way people speak about pastor was coming to me like arrows i find that god want me to pay attention on that in 1998 exactly the lord he said it is time to start calling pastors conference after i shared it with my father in the lord he said go ahead i will come and inaguarate you which we did to the glory of god from that 1998 pastor/mrs ben has been going on initially we called the national ministers conference nigeria but suprising we had somebody from bene republic and togo by the second year we have twelve nations in attendance and we began to grow in grace and powers then we continued to go wide till when the lord said it time to train pastors start the training which we started this is a brief history