About Us

Ministers Prayer Network (MPN) started officially on January 18, 1995, with a simple and humble beginning.  A few willing ministers of the gospel and some church workers, numbering between forty and sixty, gathered in response to the invitation of Rev. Mosy U. Madugba at Cornerstone Foundation Hall, No. 2 B Ozuzu Close, D/Line in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.  This group was mainly made up of Pastors, Evangelists, lay Christian leaders and leaders of some ancillary ministries to the Church.

The objective was to provide a forum and an opportunity to meet regularly and pray together for our families, our Ministries/Churches and ourselves.  And to tell ourselves hard truths to save us from drifting with some observable negative tides within the modern Church.  Jesus gave the Church apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers (Ephesians 4:11). Our objective is to encourage a balanced Church Ministry and an atmosphere where people called into these offices can function effectively in a balanced team spirit without one of the offices operating at the expense of the others.

We discussed and sought practical ways of handling the challenges posed to us by people converted to the Christian faith without being properly discipled to be like Christ.  We told ourselves to go beyond the deceptive emphasis on ability to gather crowd on Sunday mornings to the hard and thorough work of raising disciples for Christ.

The very rapid growth of this move in these following years across Nigeria, Africa and other continents of the world could only be done by Jehovah Himself.  Many began to sense the need for us to come before the Lord at the beginning of the year, spend a minimum of three days to get divine direction for the New Year for ourselves, ministries, local churches and for our peoples.  This led us to convene a solemn prayer conference.

The first conference was held in January, 1997 for three days and we had an attendance of about 600 people, most of who were pastors, General overseers and leaders of several denominations. The next year, the attendance grew to 2,200 people.  The first two conferences were held at the International Airport Hotel, Omagwa.

In 1999, we moved the conference to Civic Centre, Moscow Road, Port Harcourt, and had an attendance of about 5,000 people.  Since then, the conference has been holding every January in the same venue. The attendance has grown tremendously to about 10,000 – 13,000 people.  People have been attending from six continents of the world and several nations in Africa, and from every state of Nigeria.  The several chapters of the Network also organise and hold conferences in different states of Nigeria, and in different nations of the world throughout the year. 

The aims and objectives of MPN are to create a forum for prayers and biblical leadership development, devoid of any ostensive, ceremonial and religious atmosphere. The later only breeds religious growth without deep convictions and commitment to God. MPN was therefore born to provide an avenue where ministers of the gospel can come together and speak the bare truth to themselves, and in sincerity and simplicity, rebuke, exhort and pray for one another, basically as a family of brothers and sisters, without any religious stratifications or classifications.

There is need to pay particular attention to these things so that after we have preached to others, we will also make heaven, not with our works consumed by fire but refined by same. Our families too need to be given adequate ministerial attention so that we will make it together to heaven. Our cities also are not to be left unhealed. This way we will not be one or two tall trees and the rest shrubs in the bush. But according to Ephesians 4:12 and 16 that together we "shall all grow, make progress, be equipped, both old and young, for the work of the ministry, by enjoying what every joint supplies, that we may be increased in faith and the sound knowledge of the Son of God, to grow to be perfect men and women, as God demands it, and to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.” Therefore as we tap from the knowledge, experiences, exposures, and revelations available to each other, we experience mutual growth in ministry.

Recently, the Holy Spirit has led us to wake up Christians in the family of God to guard effectively the spiritual gates of their families, cities, states, nations and continents for the Kingdom.  The forum therefore is aimed at raising and training men and women as prophetic gatekeepers to man their gates at all levels. We have seen God awakening us to play the role of spiritual midwives to help the church in travail to give birth to the glorious Church with an Apostolic and Prophetic mandate, to help her understand what God’s agenda is for her in this season and to know the challenges facing her as she flows in this prophetic and apostolic era. This aim is achieved through the seminars and training sessions of the network.

Precisely the Ministers Prayer Network creates forums in cities and neighborhoods for those in ministry, laity and clergy to:

• Come together as brothers and sisters to frankly encourage and pray for one another and release various types of divine grace to one another so that we can have corporate growth and maturity, without stifling people’s graces, but enhancing individual initiatives in pursuit of excellence in ministry.
• Discover areas we have strong graces in ministry and focus our energy on those as against having a long list of too many things to be done by one person or ministry that never gets done properly.
• Be encouraged and helped to carry our families along in ministry
• Pray and work for the healing of our cities, nations and society until the required positive changes occur.
• Discover what the divine calendar of God is for our generation and personally pursue such as well as encourage others to do same
• Help Christian Elders in cities to wake up to their spiritual responsibilities and meet regularly so as to fulfill their divine roles, like keeping spiritual surveillance over their cities. Establish Christian Elders Forum in Cities where none exists. Functions of such City Elders Fora are written in appendix 1, towards the end of the MPN Handbook.
• Work together and encourage members/ministers to turn the numerous people in our congregations into true Disciples of Christ.
• Provide up to date training for one another so that we can be relevant and effective in a changing world by organizing regular seminars, training sessions, workshops and conferences.
• Network with other prayer movements in our various countries, or in our continents like Intercessors for America (IFA), National Pastors Prayer Network (NPPN), USA Prays, Elijah List, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ), etc. to bring about a global prayer effort that is needed to finish the unfinished task. This is achieved by informing and encouraging members of the network to travel out to other states and other nations to attend and participate in such prayer and Christian Leadership Conferences that will enable them network with other Kingdom minded Christians in leadership positions.

FOCUS

• To yield ourselves as instruments to God, restore to the Church the eroding godly foundations and earth quaking prayer pattern of the first apostolic church.
• To facilitate the rising and returning of a new prophetic and apostolic church on earth.
• To help the church in Africa and beyond to rise up to the expectations of heaven for her in this season.
• To raise, train, equip, empower, anoint and commission an undefeatable recovery army for the Lord.