List of churches in Nigeria where singles go to find love

While many churches seem to be more conservative on issues of marriage and love, some Nigerian Pentecostal churches are encouraging people to start relationships and get married in various ways.

Below are some of those churches:

1. Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries

People gathered at MFM’s Prayer City

One of such churches is the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), which recently organized a ‘Singles Summit’ for Nigerians searching for a mate.

The program took place at its vast Prayer City complex, opposite an amusement park off the Lagos to Ibadan expressway.

Thousands of people began to arrived at the MFM programme to listen to a sermon on how to find true love and hot tips on how to avoid “dating devils”.

The summit is titled ‘Gen218’ which is named after the Bible verse in Genesis where God says: “It is not good that the man should be alone” before making Eve.

The church promises to teach participants tricks for picking the right partner and avoiding pitfalls. And even within the audience, the lucky ones may actually find a boyfriend or girlfriend.

Speaking with Daily Nation, Michelle Michaels, a 37-year-old public servant who attended the programme on Saturday, February 18 said: “Obviously I’m a single, not married, searching and all that, but it’s more about getting it right.

“Marriage can be a disaster. The rate of divorce is very high nowadays and I don’t want to be part of it.”

The program begins around 8:30 am with a dapper singer in a suit and red tie, pastor Daniel Kolawole Olukoya’s showed up four hours later.

2. Kingsway International Christian Centre

People gathered at KICC before the New Year

MFM is not the only church offering singles summits. Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo of the Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC), held his own event earlier last month, teaching from his bestselling book “Don’t Date Devils”.

In his teaching, he included advice about the realities of married life. He and other pastors also give divine guidelines are prescribed such as abstaining from intercourse until marriage, and there’s a lot of praise.

3. Family Booster Ministry

A man praying at MFM Prayer City on February 18, 2017

Bisi and Yomi Adewale of the Family Booster Ministry, a husband and wife team also held an event with the theme “12 Relationships You Must Avoid At All Cost”.

In conclusion, Nimi Wariboko, a professor at Boston University’s theology school who studies Pentecostalism had this to say about the trend:

“The singles are not only going there to hook future sanctified partners but also to acquire the spiritual endowments and secular skills on how to become future rich husbands and wives,”

“The summits are also places of pleasure, spaces where one can intensely party in the name of worship and experience huge emotional release without guilt.

“It’s a bundled service package directed at a segment of Nigerians eager to cross over from one stage of life into another.”

source – Naij.com