Pastor David Ibiyiome: A brief history of salvation ministry

SALVATION MINISTRIES

Salvation Ministries was founded by Pastor David Ibiyeomie on the 13th April, 1997 at Plot 35, Birabi Street GRA 1 Port Harcourt.

The church started with 34 members: 15 males, 10 females and 9 children in attendance. Today, she has become a church with an over-flowing crowd in her Headquarters presently located at plot 17 Birabi Street GRA 1 Port Harcourt, her satellite churches and on the internet. About 157,000 worshippers in a day have been recorded in her Sunday services.

The term of office for Salvation Ministries is to spread the gospel around the world; thereby establishing the Kingdom of God here on earth and this has resulted in establishing over 1000 satellite churches and over twenty thousand (20,000) home cell centres round the globe.

In 2011, Salvation Ministries started 14 satellite churches in one day, all running five services each and gathering mammoth crowd; an epic and wonder in the history of church growth. On the 26th of January 2020, she started running Seven Services and all interpreted simultaneously in both indigenous and foreign languages such as: Igbo, Hausa, French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, German, Russian, Chinese, Italian, and Dutch. She presently has well over 1,000 pastors (Full time and part time) and many missionaries assisting in fulfilling the God given mandate.

In 2001, Salvation Ministries started her television program called THE HOUR OF SALVATION on NTA channel 10 Port Harcourt with the maiden episode, “FAITH IS NOW”. Today, the program is hosted on over 50 TV stations both locally and internationally.

Some of these stations include:

Salvation TV, Day star USA, WRNN New York, KICC Television London, Inspiration Television United Kingdom,

GOD TV,

THE WORD NETWORK USA, Africa Christian Broadcasting Network (ACBN),

AIT (Port Harcourt, Abuja, Lagos, Yenagoa)

SILVERBIRD NETWORK e.t.c

Salvation Ministries presently plans to move to her permanent site at Igwuruta, along International Airport Road, Port Harcourt. The capacity of the new Cathedral is estimated to be 120,000 which will place it as the largest auditorium in the world on completion.

Today, Salvation Ministries is one of the fastest growing churches in the world which has grown into over 50,000 regular worshippers at the headquarters alone aside it’s branches. And by reason of this, the Church runs multiple services on Sundays and Thursdays.