Toni Akose Ogobegwu heads a multi-faceted ministry that include the Word Church
International and Neighbourhood Teaching Ministry.
The Word Church International is an end time church that is particularly committed
to preparing God’s people for promised return of Christ.
Neighbourhood Teaching Ministry is a mission oriented outfit. Among the many things
done in NTM are:
The Tiv people live in
the Middle Belt region of Nigeria and are believed to
be somewhat related to the
patriarch Abraham. Historically, their ancestors fought
the Muslim jihadist as they
matched south-south ward and so prevented the spread
of Islam to that area of
Nigeria. In 2003 the Lord led me to the traditional headquarters
of the Tiv people, Gboko.
From that time till day, two prospering missionary outreaches
have been started, they
include: Turning Tiv, Marriage to God, Back to the Bible
Ministers and Church Workers
Forum.
Turning Tiv Marriage to
God, addresses marriage related issues that are tailored
to suit the marriage needs
of the Tiv people. In 2004, while preparing for one of
our outreaches to Tiv land,
the Lord gave me a prophetic word that has been fulfilled
each time I went to teach on
marriage in Tiv land. In it He told me that He will
give the people a heart to
turn their marriages to Him and everyone that comes to
me meetings will leave with
great rejoicing.We have local pastors in the land who
function as coordinators of
the Neighbourhood Teaching Ministry in Tiv land. Through
these coordinators, we are
able to penetrate into the interior villages and hamlets.
In one of these villages we
met the council of chiefs who attended our meetings
and have asked for an
enlarged meeting with all the chiefs and elders of the community.
This we hope will be coming
up in 2011.
Since most our missions are in the
rural areas, it became
needful that the transforming marriage message taught people
in the rural places of Tiv
land be made available to those in the cities also. This
became the reason for the
radio marriage outreach broadcast. The first quarter broadcast
dealt with foundation stones
that help turn marriage to God and general misconceptions
about marriage. It is
planned to start from Lagos and then spread to other cities
in the nation. Recently we
began to broadcast our marriage message on a radio station
in the UK.
Back to the Bible
Ministers and Church Workers Forum started in July 2010
in a little Tiv village
called Ahumbe. This mission aims at helping young and upcoming
ministers and church workers
to base their ministries entirely on what the Bible
says. This is a quarterly
teaching outreach.
Fathers online Assembly
This is a unique interactive ministry to fathers and in
it we try to get men across
all spectrum to discuss issues that affect fathering
in the 21st century. Fathers
are challenged on all fronts in our time but most times,
they are without any direct
ministry to help them get along in difficult times.
Children are all over the
place struggling to cope with life without a father image
because something, sometime,
and somewhere stole their fathers from them. In Fathers
online Assembly, we try to
provide resources that will enable fathers take on their
responsibility of fatherhood
with delight.
The Word Church
International is an end-time ministry whose mandate is to help prepare
God’s people for the return
of Jesus Christ. To this end, we have a regular yearly
conference in which God’s
people are taught to be watchful as Jesus commanded us
to do in Mark 13:35. “Watch
ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the
house cometh, at even, or at
midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning.”
The church also runs a
vibrant Teenagers Church that focuses on the needs of teens.
A yearly teen camp is held
that gathers teenagers from different locations in our
locality.
