The run-down section of Zone B, Nyanya town, an outskirt of Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory, comes alive Tuesday and Saturday mornings as people throng the Pool of Redemption Assembly (PORA) an inter-denominational prayer and deliverance ministry pastored by (Mrs) Chinyere Ifeanyi (popularly called Pastor Chi), from Afikpo, Ebonyi state and being married at Oha Ozara, Ugulangwu, same state. PORA injected life into that area, and “Okada” riders from Nyanya market all know the “Blue Roof” church. At PORA, everyone must come with a Bible and be decently dressed. Saturday, 22 September 2024, PORA members will be there in full force; for Pastor Chi’s birthday celebration, and for those who will remember, the 15th year celebration of PORA’s coming to that site. But hey, the story jumps!

The ministry began fully in April 2010 when Pastor Chi began counselling people at home but conducted deliverance on a mountain in Nyanya but as the population increased she got a hill site near the present church. Then, PORA later bought the present site.

Brought up in the Assemblies of God Church, and having been ordained a Pastor, she worked in a couple of churches but stressed that her gift of prophecy manifested “even from early childhood, I usually saw things and I would talk to people about them.”

How does she feel when somebody deliberately disobeys a prophecy and suffers a calamity?  She said: “Sincerely, I usually feel bad because if that person had listened, there would be no regret. Regret? A PORA worker narrated the loss of a Directorate of State Security (DSS) operative whom she had advised to shun any trip outside Abuja on a certain day. Then the man came to her, with some money which he called “seed”, saying he was sowing the seed to enable him act against the prophecy because his boss had nominated him for a trip. Pastor Chi rejected the money, saying that God never told her about the seed but that God instructed him not to travel. The man pocketed his money, went on that particular trip to the North and ran into an ambush. He died of gunshots”.

She remembered a lady whose brother, who was having a mental problem, lived in Malaysia. “I was doing the deliverance on the sister and at the same time praying for him. The madness left him immediately. Now, this is the interesting part; I later talked to the man on phone, through the sister, he said he was walking aimlessly on the streets of Malaysia, and saw a fair woman and as he was describing that woman, it became obvious that he was describing me – height, complexion, etc.

He said the woman asked him to go back to his apartment which he had abandoned for the streets, and he should go and wear his clothes. He said that it was only when he got to his apartment that he knew he was in boxer underwear. That was how the mental problem left him. So, he now called his sister and narrated the story about the woman she saw on the streets. The sister told him that the description fitted Pastor Chi unerringly and narrated the deliverance session”. The brother and sister were astonished. Pastor Chi added: “I don’t know how God did it”.

 Author’s comment: Had the brother and sister been Catholics, they could have heard of “bilocation” in the miracle stories of some saints such as St. Anthony of Padua, St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, St. Anthony-Mary Claret or Sister Mary of Agreda; the miraculous act of a person’s being in two places at the same time, or of a person’s appearance in a distant place – without physically traveling there and while remaining visible in his normal place of abode or work.

And another: “One day before coming for prayers, I had a revelation where oil was falling from heaven. I made a declaration that people should open their hands so that God would pour oil on them. Suddenly, people were seeing oil on their hands. In Addition to that, I also told them that they should pray hard because many would receive alert of money deposits on their phones. Immediately the prayer session ended, many people saw alerts on their phones. That was a special day. I had thought God would sprinkle unseen oil on the people; such things have not happened again. I still marvel at that day’s events.  Some of the people who had that wonderful experience are still here and can confirm it”.

 There is another incident; about a particular deliverance session. I was particularly touched because a man had not only been killed but the killers were targeting his wife also. Moved with extreme pity, I declared God’s judgment on them. I said, “Sir, wherever you are, I loose you from the grave and I summon you to fight those behind your death.

Physically, people were calling from the village that they saw him. After three people had died in a particular house (I expressly asked him to go and kill those that killed him), that was it for me because

I couldn’t explain it. So, I called the sister-in-law who was present at that Saturday prayer session, and asked for the dead man’s name, called the name and said “if, I’m truly the one who roused you from your grave, I send you back there. And truly, since that day, nobody has seen him again”. There are very many stranger than fiction real wonders that God has performed here. We can’t list them all”.