OUR FOUNDER
Hello, I'm Pastor Matthew...
I came to America in 1975 to study aeronautical engineering. From 1971 to 1975 when I left Nigeria’s shores, I was engaged in among other things, itinerant gospel evangelism, mainly in Lagos metropolis/megapolis.
From 1982 till 2009, I was in the American labor force. In 2005, after my MBA from Pepperdine University, my wife and I began the process of emigrating from America to Nigeria. It started with prayer to God for guidance and direction on how to reverse the process that brought us to the America in the seventies. In 2009, I took early retirement and headed home to Nigeria. The plan then was to leave my wife and children here in America until I had planted both boots and roots on ground in Nigeria. Thereafter, the rest of the family would follow.
We prayed majorly for opportunity and capacity for my wife and I to add value to our rural communities on our return. Before leaving, we had to set up a system/mechanism for transfer of the prevalent surpluses in the US to heal the perennial scarcities in the rural communities of Nigeria, Kenya and other African countries.
This led to the setup VOICE OF HIS WORD Ministries VOHWM) as a 501c organization to facilitate resource transfer from America to our Africa mission fields.
Our First Subsidiary - ECIM Nigeria
We launched our first subsidiary organization in Nigeria – Extreme Commitment International Ministry (ECIM) as a faith-based, non-governmental, non-political organization, duly registered with Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) of Nigeria.
To summarize, the operational mission of VOHWM, USA and ECIM, Nigeria is to:
- Preach, teach and practice the whole gospel of Jesus Christ through
- Disciple and mentor Christians
- Provide material support for the immediate needs as identified by the rural community we serve.
- Facilitate training programs
- Support the establishment and growth of businesses in rural communities
Our Second Subsidiary - JNB Kenya
We recently launched our second subsidiary organization in Kenya – John Osogo Foundation (JNB Foundation) built to help with the following initial programs:
- Microfinance - support and training for local merchants
- Widow support - similar to social security, subsidizing housing, food, and health care
- Education - subsidizing school fees from first grade to their first degree, and access to books and more education
- Ministry support
Our
Mission & Values
The plan of VOHWM is focused on human capital development with the goal of making the citizenry to be able to read and write – functional literacy – and also of making all to become productively skilled to create employment for themselves or become employable, while at the same time addressing their spiritual, nutrition and health needs.
“If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;…….…,” for the mouth of the LORD has spoken. (Isaiah 1:19)