Church opens free specialist hospital for pregnant women
Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt
In its contribution towards fighting maternal mortality, a church, the Omega Power Ministry, has opened a specialist hospital for pregnant women.
The hospital, according to the General Overseer of OPM, Apostle Chinyere Chibuzor, will attend to all pregnant women irrespective of their religion or class.
Chibuzor explained that the hospital, located in Omuohunwo village in Aluu, in the Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State, had been equipped with modern facilities that would help to reduce the rate of maternal mortality in the country.
The cleric explained that funds used to put the health facility in place was generated through offerings and tithes by members of his church.
He promised that more funds would be generated to sustain the services that would be rendered by health workers at the hospital.
“By the grace of God, OPM free schools have run for over nine years and we sustained it with church offerings. We started with one and moved to two and now we have 11 schools.
“A lot of money is coming into the church every Sunday; what are pastors doing with it? If a pastor can use church money to build a school, why not use the same money to run and sustain it?
“If we can sustain the schools and five free estates, we can also sustain this. Some pastors call me saying I should stop disclosing that a lot of money comes into the church every day, but I will have to say the truth.
“God’s money should be used for God’s people. This is a specialist hospital. Why we are making it a specialist hospital is because the rate of maternal death is unbelievable. How can a woman carry a pregnancy for nine months without going to a hospital? Sometimes, they (pregnant women) are delivered of their babies at home and they die.
“We have employed professionals. We don’t want to compromise standard. We have engaged the best hands in the field and they will give good services here,” Chibuzor said.
The cleric added, “All the rooms are en suite and fully equipped. The hospital has a high standard. We have also made arrangements that when a woman is delivered of her baby here, we will feed her till she is discharged.
“The hospital is for everybody, Christians of every denomination, Muslims and even pagans can come here and receive free treatment.”
The Consultant Radiologist, Head of Radiology Department, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Dr. Enighe Ugboma, observed that the hospital could boast of qualified personnel and equipment to achieve its purpose of ending maternal mortality.
God didn’t call me to buy jet, flashy cars – Apostle Chinyere
Saturday, August 3, 2019 11:16 am
Apostle Chibuzor Gift Chinyere
By Okafor Ofiebor
Apostle Chibuzor Gift Chinyere, the General Overseer of Omega Power Ministry, OPM, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has said God did not call him to buy jet and flashy cars for his wife and children but to preach the gospel and reach out to the poor in a bid to bring them to Christ.
He spoke when he unveiled a free estate he built for repented sex workers and girls rescued from trafficking syndicates.
The cleric shocked all, when in a clear departure of what is trending in many Pentecostal Churches in Nigeria, on July 29, 2019, unveiled the free estate.
The Free Estate is situated at Omokiri Play Ground, Aluu in Ikwerre local government area of Rivers State and is built in a serene environment with free skill acquisition centres where the girls would be trained on hairdressing, tailoring, baking and toiletry.
The Estate, made up of 72 flats, comprising one bedroom, has a standby sound proof generator and
facilities for comfortable living, like quality water, free feeding, and television sets to unwind for the girls.
Chinyere, popularly called “Daddy OPM”, reminded the people that his goal was not to build the biggest house or drive the best of cars, buy private jets, but to see that souls made it to heaven and that beaten and battered people and societal misfits were given a helping hand, rehabilitated and won for Christ.
He said that his target on earth was to make sure that two billions souls made heaven, which was why he was doing everything possible to make his vision a possibility, including rescuing sex workers selling their bodies for money.
He lamented that there were more churches than schools, yet children littered the streets of Nigeria due to lack of education, while enjoining every pastor to make it a point of duty to open free schools for the less privileged children and lend helping hands to the needy.
Most of the beneficiaries were sex workers who were preached to at the Casablanca Government Reservation Area, GRA, and the popular ‘Cool Breeze’ in the ghetto parts of Diobu axis of Port Harcourt.
Among them are repented sex workers, pregnant repented sex workers and girls rescued from the busted baby factories. They were very excited as they moved into the free estate where everything is made available for them including feeding, clothing, toiletries, among others.
The OPM founder has been championing the advocacy that church offerings and tithes should primarily be for welfare of members and the less privileged in the society.
Of significance was the pleasant story of Ms. Cynthia Nweze, a former sex worker who went into the distasteful trade of prostitution because her husband abandoned her and bolted. She was preached to, had a change of heart and decided to live a godly life and serve God.
She was one those who repented sometimes ago after Chinyere conducted a gospel crusade in the environs of crime-prone areas of the ghetto of Casablanca in Mile One, Diobu in Port Harcourt, where sex workers plied their trade.
The OPM Free Estate
After the man of God preached to them, he took those who repented to his home, fed them with food, preached the word of God to them and gave them money to come to church the next Sunday if they decided to have a change of heart.
Nweze was one of such girls who made a decision to change for the better, she was in church the next Sunday and denounced sex trade on the altar.
After denouncing sex trade, just like others, she was moved into the Free Estate and taken through thorough rehabilitation and was empowered with money to start up a decent trade.
How airport cleaner turned wealthy pastor in Port Harcourt By Agency report | Published Date Dec 25, 2018 15:39 PM TwitterFacebookWhatsAppTelegram Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere. The founder of Omega Power Ministry (OPM) Worldwide, Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere, has revealed the secret behind his success, after working as an airport cleaner, security man and a recharge card vendor in the past. Apostle Chinyere said he started life as a young man about 15 years ago in Lagos, selling mobile phone recharge cards and cleaning toilets at the Murtala Muhammad Airport, Lagos. advertisers.ng By ADNG.NG CHEAPEST SOCIAL MEDIA ADS TO TOP FB IG USERS He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that his existence had been destined and guided by God. advertisers.ng By ADNG.NG CHEAPEST SOCIAL MEDIA ADS TO TOP FB IG USERS OVER 5,000 NIGERIAN MEN HAVE OVERCOME POOR BEDROOM PERFORMANCE SYNDROME DUE TO THIS BRILLIANT DISCOVERY The 45-year old pastor said the experience of neglect, rejection and poverty changed his perception of life and catapulted him to where he had found himself today. “I was motivated to doing the right thing because 12 years ago, I was a homeless man, I had nothing; I was selling MTN recharge card in Lagos. I am always pained seeing the poor people suffering. “The first time I travelled to Lagos, I slept under the bridge. I later became a cleaner at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), where I also cleaned the airport toilets. “Go to MMA Lagos and ask of Chibuzor, everybody knows me there as a cleaner; it is not a secret. I posted the picture on the church Facebook wall. “At times, when I am travelling or coming back from my journey, I stop at the airport to greet my former colleagues, and I gladly share what I have with them. “In fact, I had to establish one of them and he is now doing well in Port Harcourt,” Apostle Chibuzor said. According to the pastor, his major concern in life, having tasted poverty, was to see the children of the poor get quality education no matter the circumstance. This, he said, led to the establishment of the OPM free schools in Bayelsa, Rivers and Abia as well as a Foundation for Humanitarian Services. He told NAN that he used the offering and tithes from church members in 150 branches across the globe to ameliorate the sufferings of the poor people and the less privileged in the society. “We started this free school when we had only one branch of the church about 10 years ago; we also operate a free restaurant, where Muslims and Christians go to eat. “The free school is located in Bayelsa, Rivers and Abia, and we want to spread it all over Nigeria. “The OPM Foundation is also behind the construction of free estates where people live without paying a kobo as rent; we have skill acquisition centres where people come and learn different skill. “We rehabilitate both militants and armed robbers and feed them every day. We also rehabilitate commercial sex workers and also give them accommodation and we are also feeding them. “They are now doing legitimate businesses,” he said. NAN reports that the foundation’s other achievements include empowerment, alms-giving and commissioning of a free Computer Training Centre at Elele prison in Rivers. Others are the award of university scholarship to the poor apart from the free nursery, primary and secondary schools education. It has also commissioned free tailoring centre and provided water borehole to the people of Rumuji and other communities in Rivers, to alleviate the problem of water scarcity in the Area.
HomeNewsHow airport cleaner turned wealthy pastor in Port Harcourt advertisers.ng By ADNG.NG CHEAPEST SOCIAL MEDIA ADS TO TOP FB IG USERS How airport cleaner turned wealthy pastor in Port Harcourt By Agency report | Published Date Dec 25, 2018 15:39 PM TwitterFacebookWhatsAppTelegram Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere. The founder of Omega Power Ministry (OPM) Worldwide, Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere, has revealed the secret behind his success, after working as an airport cleaner, security man and a recharge card vendor in the past. Apostle Chinyere said he started life as a young man about 15 years ago in Lagos, selling mobile phone recharge cards and cleaning toilets at the Murtala Muhammad Airport, Lagos. advertisers.ng By ADNG.NG CHEAPEST SOCIAL MEDIA ADS TO TOP FB IG USERS He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that his existence had been destined and guided by God. advertisers.ng By ADNG.NG CHEAPEST SOCIAL MEDIA ADS TO TOP FB IG USERS OVER 5,000 NIGERIAN MEN HAVE OVERCOME POOR BEDROOM PERFORMANCE SYNDROME DUE TO THIS BRILLIANT DISCOVERY The 45-year old pastor said the experience of neglect, rejection and poverty changed his perception of life and catapulted him to where he had found himself today. “I was motivated to doing the right thing because 12 years ago, I was a homeless man, I had nothing; I was selling MTN recharge card in Lagos. I am always pained seeing the poor people suffering. “The first time I travelled to Lagos, I slept under the bridge. I later became a cleaner at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA), where I also cleaned the airport toilets. “Go to MMA Lagos and ask of Chibuzor, everybody knows me there as a cleaner; it is not a secret. I posted the picture on the church Facebook wall. “At times, when I am travelling or coming back from my journey, I stop at the airport to greet my former colleagues, and I gladly share what I have with them. “In fact, I had to establish one of them and he is now doing well in Port Harcourt,” Apostle Chibuzor said. According to the pastor, his major concern in life, having tasted poverty, was to see the children of the poor get quality education no matter the circumstance. This, he said, led to the establishment of the OPM free schools in Bayelsa, Rivers and Abia as well as a Foundation for Humanitarian Services. He told NAN that he used the offering and tithes from church members in 150 branches across the globe to ameliorate the sufferings of the poor people and the less privileged in the society. “We started this free school when we had only one branch of the church about 10 years ago; we also operate a free restaurant, where Muslims and Christians go to eat. “The free school is located in Bayelsa, Rivers and Abia, and we want to spread it all over Nigeria. “The OPM Foundation is also behind the construction of free estates where people live without paying a kobo as rent; we have skill acquisition centres where people come and learn different skill. “We rehabilitate both militants and armed robbers and feed them every day. We also rehabilitate commercial sex workers and also give them accommodation and we are also feeding them. “They are now doing legitimate businesses,” he said. NAN reports that the foundation’s other achievements include empowerment, alms-giving and commissioning of a free Computer Training Centre at Elele prison in Rivers. Others are the award of university scholarship to the poor apart from the free nursery, primary and secondary schools education. It has also commissioned free tailoring centre and provided water borehole to the people of Rumuji and other communities in Rivers, to alleviate the problem of water scarcity in the Area.