MESSIAH ARENA GLOBAL MISSIONS FELLOWSHIP
About Us
Who We Are
Messiah Arena is an interdenominational mission organisation with the vision “that none should perish”- 1Tim2:4. As a global Christian mission development fellowship consisting of Christian professionals, we have an unwavering passion for missions: evangelical missions, medical missions, welfare missions, youths and family empowerment and believers growth in Christ.
We network with other Christians, Mission organisations, and Church denominations to train and support missionaries for the mission fields and also embark on mission outreaches and community transformation in villages and towns.
Our Value Offering
Community Transformation: youth and family empowerment, agricultural empowerment, building/construction support and educational development
Messiah Arena Model
The Model
The Arena is the central stage for the demonstration of the power and love of God. Unlike the Arena that is used for sports and other forms of entertainment, The Arena Model is focused on the delivery of spiritual dividends to all mankind. The Arena model is the expression of individual spiritual gift in a synthesised process unified to achieve missions transformation through an integrated evangelistic system designed for a particular purpose. It is a network of individuals and or missions organisations combining their gifts and resources to achieve maximum impact in a target evangelism. It uses a disciplined application of individual gifts and graces for collective action.
The Arena Model rests upon Four Realities and One Application:
1. The reality of differences in individual gifts and graces.
2. The reality of the work being greater than the gifts and graces available in individuals.
3. The reality of the presence of synergy in combined operation of gifts and graces.
4. The reality of individual liberty in the application of gifts and graces while operating within common limits for the achievement of divine purpose.
5. The seamless application of diverse gifts and graces in collective action
What We Do
Our Operations
1.Sowing the seed of the gospel at every given opportunity – in
crusades, seminars, or one-on-one bases.
2.We extend calls to missionaries for mission fields.
3.Support and train missionaries.
4.Provide periodic free medical care including surgeries and welfare support to communities.
5.Funding mission field projects, e.g building place of worship, provision of basic amenities and construction of basic facilities within villages like drainages and well.
6.Provide educational scholarships and mentoring to youths.
7.Networking with churches and other NGOs to carry out mission projects.
Adopted People Group
Baruba People Group
BARUBA (also called Bariba) are people of Borgu.
Borgu (French: Borgou) is a region in north-west Nigeria and in the northern Republic of Benin. The three major kingdoms of Borgu are Bussa, Illo and Nikki. Bussa is traditionally considered to be the spiritual centre of Borgu, Nikki the centre of political power and Illo the commercial emporium. Poor soils, low rainfall (especially in the dry season), and Fulani slave raids in the 19th century have made Borgu one of Nigeria’s least-populated regions. They mainly engage in cattle and poultry raising, subsistence farming (sorghum, millet, shea nuts, onions, corn [maize], peanuts [groundnuts], cotton, tobacco), and fishing.
OUR WORK
The Lord led us to the Baruba people in 2004. After the initial ground work, we set out for Nikki, Republic of Benin 2005 to explore and commence our missionary work among them. From available information at that time 80% of the Barubas live in Republic of Benin while the remaining 20% dwell around Kaima, Kosubosu and Ilesa-Baruba axis in Nigeria. That first journey was a huge success and we were able to leave behind our missionary, Pastor Annanias Haruna to spear-head the work in the area.
He labored for one year without any result and we decided to withdraw him back to Nigeria in 2006 with the aim of closing the work. As he went back to get his belongings, the Lord gave him a convert, Bro Isaiah who became the first fruit of our effort amongst the Barubas. That was the inspiration that kept us amongst the Barubas and has given rise to the expanded work at the moment.
In 2007, the First Baptist Church Nikki invited Messiah Arena to take over the Pastorate of the church after most of the members had deserted the church. The God of heaven enabled us to stabilize the church and growth began to take place. This created the opportunity to reach out to the surrounding villages and communities. Through our annual Celebrating The King programmes held in Nikki, Okuta and Nngrumi-Gwarana we have been able to support and strengthen the work amongst the Barubas. This has given the work a boost and endeared Messiah Arena in the hearts of many within this people group.
Our Challenges:
The task has suffered largely from dearth of reliable and committed workmen. Some of the missionaries who had worked with us have either abandoned the work or proven to be half- baked Christians themselves. One noticeable characteristics of the Baruba Christians and Pastors alike is unseriousness rooted in lack of deep commitment to Christ. This position is worsened by the influence of the surrounding Muslim population and traditional religion adherents who combine every kind of faith with demonic power. Liberal living, infidelity, alcoholism and poverty are common place amongst the Barubas.
Current initiatives:
We began to think about restructuring the work in 2014 when the Lord laid the burden in our hearts to increase our effort in reaching out to the Barubas. With the help of the Lord we have established more mission fields in Tontaru, Wonko, Agankiru within the Republic of Benin axis and new works are being commenced around Chikanda and Gure in Nigeria. To improve the effectiveness of the work, we have redesigned the ministry structure and missionary responsibilities including the behavioural imperative for missionaries which should expectedly lead us into the future.
Nupe People Group
The Nupes trace their origin to Tsoede who fled the court of Idah and established a loose confederation of towns along the Niger in the 15th century. The proximity of Nupe to the Yoruba Igbomina people in the south and to the Yoruba Oyo people in the southwest led to cross-fertilization of cultural influences through trade and conflicts over the centuries. It is said that the famous Yoruba oba or king, Shango (also known as Jakuta) who was once an Alaafin of Oyo before being deified following his death, was the son of a Nupe (Tapa) woman.
Many Nupe were converted to Islam at the end of the eighteenth century by Mallam Dendo, a wandering preacher, and were incorporated into the Fulani Empire established by the Jihad led by Usman dan Fodio after 1806. However, the traditions of Nupe were retained, hence the ruler of Nupe is the Etsu Nupe rather than being called Emir.
Population & Religion
There are probably about 3.5 million Nupes, principally in Niger State, although a small but growing diaspora of Nupe can be found in Knowle in the West Midlands of England. The Nupe language is also spoken in Kwara and Kogi States. They are primarily Muslims, with a few Christians and followers of African Traditional Religion. The Nupe people have several local, traditional rulers.
Our Work
The Lord led us to Nupe people group in 2013 when we held Celebrating The King 2013 at Patigi, Kwara state. The seed we sowed has germinated as we were called in to partnership last year by the Nigerian Baptist Convention to expand the gospel in the land
Our Flagship Programs
Celebrating The King
Traditionally at Christmas, people share and exchange gifts, feast and generally engage in music and dancing. This is our major outreach yearly and we have reached out to over 10,000 people. We adopt five major strategies:
- Medical Mission
- Jesus Walk
- Music Crusade
- Film Crusade
- Welfare Support
In the recent years, we have included Youth and Ministers conference as a means of empowering them in other to jump start holistic community transformation and effective follow-up of program converts. This is made possible by our deep commitment to partner with resident Christian association and Ministers in the domain of the program. Click Here to Read More about Celebrating The King
Youth Programs
YOUTH ON MISSION
Youths are mobilized every third quarter to carry out mission works in villages. We camp them for a period of 3 to 5 days from different states in Nigeria to interact and share God’s love with selected villages that God leads us to and it has always been a thrilling experience that birth so much passion and love for the gospel amongst youths. We do have features like:
•Core village evangelism
•Sanitation of the villages
•Medical mission
•Social and welfare supports
•And relationship talks and fun time.
YOUTH CHALLENGE
Having established an avenue to position youth for missions, we took a step further in 2015 to empower them by re-orientating youths on the usage of their gifting for personal & community transformation.
International Worship Conference
This is an annual worship conference that is organized by The Praise Family Ministry International in collaboration with Messiah Arena. Its purpose is to re-install true worship in this end-time, to prepare the church for Christ’s return. It attracts music ministers from countries far and near. It features programs like; Music concert, Praise Clinic, Music Workshop and Seminars. This comes up every third quarter of the year.
The first five edition of the conference were held in Lagos from 2004 – 2008. During the 5th edition, the Holy Spirit instructed us to get ready for receiving international delegates from other parts of the world to this conference. This prophesy was fulfilled in 2009 with the 1st set of international delegates attending from Republic of Benin and we have had ministers come United States of America, Sierra-Lone, Ghana amongst others. In line with a further divine instruction to hold the conference in other parts of the country, we have held the conference in Oyo, Ogbomoso, Lagos, Ilorin, Osogbo, and Ibadan in 2009, 2010,2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. The 12th edition was also held in Ibadan at Orita-mefa Baptist Church.
Easter Royal Banquet
This is an annual worship conference that is organized by The Praise Family Ministry International in collaboration with Messiah Arena. Its purpose is to re-install true worship in this end-time, to prepare the church for Christ’s return. It attracts music ministers from countries far and near. It features programs like; Music concert, Praise Clinic, Music Workshop and Seminars. This comes up every third quarter of the year.
The first five edition of the conference were held in Lagos from 2004 – 2008. During the 5th edition, the Holy Spirit instructed us to get ready for receiving international delegates from other parts of the world to this conference. This prophesy was fulfilled in 2009 with the 1st set of international delegates attending from Republic of Benin and we have had ministers come United States of America, Sierra-Lone, Ghana amongst others. In line with a further divine instruction to hold the conference in other parts of the country, we have held the conference in Oyo, Ogbomoso, Lagos, Ilorin, Osogbo, and Ibadan in 2009, 2010,2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. The 12th edition was also held in Ibadan at Orita-mefa Baptist Church. Click Here to Read More about Easter Royal Banquet
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