Churches in Ogbona

2024 CHURCHES & PASTORS IN OGBONA, ETSAKO CENTRAL LGA EDO STATE. S/N NAME OF CHURCH PASTOR CONTACT 1. Anointed Deliverance Ministry Pst. Pascal Elamah. +2348110830472 2. Assemblies of God branch 1. Rev. Geoffrey Odogiawa. +2348060388116 3. Assemblies of God branch 2.Rev.Chris Iyokha. +2348058778356 4. Best Life Ministry. Pst. Joel Eghieye. +2347030500208. 5. C.A.C. Branch 1. Pst.Isaiah Samuel. 6.C.A.C.Branch 2. Pst. Micheal Basil. +2348066339302. 7. Celestial Church of Christ. Pst. Isaac Oshiomhogho. +2348055163310 8. Christ Apostolic Church. Branc1. Pst. Isaiah Abiodun. +2348069701026. 9. Christ Apostolic Church Branch 2. Pst.Micheal Bisah. +2348066339302 10. Christ Apostolic Light Evangelical Mission. (CALEM) Rev. Simon Peter Emhokidi. +2348111180839. 11. Christ Chosen church Ogbona. Pst. Earnest Igbenoba +2347063422611 12. Christ Redeemed Assembly. Rev. Jacob Brai. +2347060420518 13. Church of Christ. Pst. David Abu. +2347068594396. 14. Church of God in Christ Mennonite church. Minister. Pius Jeremiah. +2348066233763 15. Church of God Mission Branch 1. Rev.Monday Umasor. +2347038034655 16. Church of God Mission Branch 2.Rev.A.T.Imafidor.+2348063874309 17. City of God Bible Church. Prophetess. Maria Kashmir+2348106567982 18. Deeper Life Bible Church Branch 1.Pst.Boniface Inamegbai +2347032072680 19. Deeper Life church Branch 2. Pst.Peter Momoh. +2347033528218. 20. Divine Reconciliation Ministry. Pst. Daniel Ogidi. +2347032270197 21. Dominion Deliverance Ministry. Pst. Paulinus Eboeso+2347039235834. 22. Foundation of Jesse church of Christ. Pst.Sunny Oghenakoghie Jacob. +2348160240103 23. Foursquare Gospel Church. Pst. Olaniyan Adekola. +2347031277877 24. God’s Grace Holiness Gospel Church. Pst. Japheth Oyarekhua. +2347032270068 25. Gospel Faith Mission. Pst. Isaiah Elijah 26. Gospel Truth Faith Ministry. Past. Isaac Aliu. +2347072830752 27. Heritage Gospel Church. Pst. Solomon Imhokhai. +2349032292777 28. Jesus People Reconciliation Ministry. Pst. Fredrick Imoagene. +2348163113389 29. Kingdom Assembly Church. Pst. Imhodu Paul. +2348164212760 30. Kingdom Connection Ministry. Rev. Thomas Ikhaghu +2348066630028 31. Living Faith Church. Pst. Osamuyi. +2349024712390 32. Living Gospel Outreach. Rev. Joseph Aigbepue. +2349020080262 33. Lord’s Chosen church. Pst. Chuks. +2348037369439. 34. Omega Fire Ministry. Pst. Emmanuel Itenebe. +2348133222967 35. Power and Fire Ministry. Prophetess Magdalene Bello. +8077132608. 36. Redeemed Christian Church (RCCG) Pst. John Inegui +2348027920318 37. Seventh-day Adventist. Pst. Chuks Ojo. +2348061296449 38. Seventh-day Adventist Branch 2.Pst.E.Obadiah.+2348131648816 39. St.John the Baptist Church. Rev. Phillip Omokhekhe. +234802698188 40. St.Peters Anglican church. Rev. Jonathan Ikemere. 41. The Gospel Ministries Int’l. Ogbona. Apst. Dr.Yusuf A. Trueman. +2348072449005 42. Victory Chapel. Pst. Jonathan Oyarenua. +234703668512 43. Watchman Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement.Pst. Victor Eshieza +2348032902945, +234805344032744. 44. Word of Christ Bible Church. Pst.Timothy Akhabigimhe +2347034399456. 45. Voice of Victory Embassy. Past. Lawrence Okhumode +2348063836787, +2348074465242

ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE  By Godwin Asekomhe The Catholic Church named after the Patron Saint ” St John The Baptist Catholic Church, Ogbona in Etsako Central Local government Area, Edo State was established in the early 20s. The pioneers of Lay Faithful were: Robert Odogbo, Cletus Eshiemhomoh Anaweokhai Nicholas Apemheye Asekomhe (Apemheye Asekomhe ( the biological father of Evangelizers Godwin Asekomhe). Others were: George Okomilo, Martins Esi Balogun, Richard Asekomhe, David Agbiko Enamhino, Thomas Eragbe, Michael Idodo, Erumhire, Dominic Enamhino, , Bernard Ozibe Ogboalo, and Mathias Ekiegbmhe Atsegwosi.   ” If this pioneering lay faithful members of the young Catholic Church expected grand reception among Ogbona people, it was a a dream taken too far. They were met with fair resistance, opposition and persecution. The local saw the religion as a knife wedge in the heart of the things that held their community together, their way of life with the Scriptural teaching against pagan practices like sacrifices to idols, okhei traditional rites, and their way of life. etc. This soon brought the church head on conllision with the traditionalist. The school was seen as an extension of that alien culture were children were subject to such inhuman treatment as caning and as such most parents refused to send their children to school.” (Pastor Odior Anaweokhai: unpublished search work).   Matters were not helped by lack of able bodied men to steer the affair of the new church. Mr. Robert Odogbo, the pioneer head Christian and Catechist was based in Auchi. All the clergymen were based in Ivhianogbodi. Mr Cletus Anaweokhai and Mr Nicholas Apemheye Asekomhe would go to Ivhianogbodi to collect previous Sundays readings and sermons for Sunday masses at Ogbona. In this regard, Mr Nicholas Apemheye Asekomhe was nick named “Obo no bie” which means Black European and “Uwaya” which means Telegram communication officer.   As we are preparing for the canonical dedication of the new church, let all hands be on the desk and work together to make the dedication gloriously glorious to the glory of our ever glorious God.   ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE PART2. Today marks the beginning of a new dawn in Ogbona as all roads by land sea and air leads to the NEW JERUSALEM OF ETSAKO for the Canonical dedication of St John The Baptist Catholic Church, Ogbona, Etsako Central Local Government of Edo State by His Lordship Most Rev Dr Gabriel G Dunia, the Catholic Bishop of Auchi Diocese with his global entourage. Ogbona is the big heart and the heart of Etsako kingdom. So in the part 2 of our discourse we shall take a look at :   PERSECUTION, SUFFERING AND IMPRISONMENT OF THE PIONEER LAY FAITHFUL MEMBERS OF OGBONA CATHOLIC CHURCH. The arrest, trial, and imprisonment of of the pioneer members of the Catholic Church in Ogbona was the height of the British Colonial iron fist rule in Ogbona, Nigeria and West African Subregion in general at the dawn of the 20th Century. British stronghold in Nigeria was palpable in all spheres of life. . The Great Benin Massacre at the end of the 19th century was icy on the cake. Other smaller kingdoms suffer lesser or greater fate too. Manhandling a Court Bailiff was crass resistance and self assertion against British rule. Consequently everything has to be done to reassert British dominance in the political sphere, hence the summary trial and imprisonment of the early pioneering Lay Faithful in Ogbona in the early 1930, when Mr Agbiko Enamhino had an issue with one of the unbeliever. The battle line was drawn between the christians and the traditionalists in the order of the the battle line drawn between the offsprings of the woman (Eve) and the offsprings of the Serpent (Devil) by God in the Garden of Eden by God ( Gen3vs15; Rev12vs13-17).   Mr Agbiko Enamhino was served a writ of summon by the customary court Bailif from Fugar. The pioneer Catholic Lay Faithful members in Ogbona church resolved to break with the tradition as guarded by their christian faith against bribery and corruption by depriving the Court Bailiff his usual ” four pence, a fowl and tubers of yam.” When the court Bailiff insisted on collecting his entitlement (bribe) with threat and force , he was assaulted. This was a sacrilegious acts . It was fragrant disobedience to a constituted authority based in Auchi, which the British District Office did not find funny nor palatable. The Colonial D O personally came to Fugar to preside over the case. The pioneer members were sentenced to two (2) months imprisonment with fourteen (14) stroke of cane.   ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH: THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (PART3). There was no church in Auchi , being predominantly a Muslim Community where the seven (7) pioneer Lay Faithful members of the Catholic Church in Ogbona were jailed for two months as at 1931-1932. While serving their jail term, one strange event that boosted the inspiration, encouragement and boldness of the young Ogbona Catholic Church occurred in the prison cell. The strange occurrence was the discovery of a strange small bell Mr. Nicholas Apemheye Asekomhe while serving two months jail term along with six others pioneer members at Auchi prison on the account of their Catholic faith and the spread of the gospel of Christ in Ogbona and environs. “A day before the completion of their jail term, as usual after praying the Rosary, they all went to sleep, but early in the morning Mr. Nicholas Apemheye Asekomhe woke up to see a strange bell close to where he laid his head like in the days of the Apostles of Christ ( Acts 12vs 1-11). As they all pointed out , nobody entered their room that night. At the end they concluded it could be nothing but the miracle of God to boost their faith and commitment to the great commission of evangelisation” (Pastor Odior Anaweokhai’s unpublished

Churches in Ogbona, Edo State Nigeria Directory of Churches in Ogbona Published by Anita Itsuokor Ayodele Ogbona: One of the four villages in Avianwu clan, nested along Agenebode road in Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State. At the time of this publication, there were 37 churches in operation. These churches comprise of different ministries. Download Directory of Churches in Ogbona