VISION
Making every sacrifice possible to spread the news of the sacrifice God made with Jesus Christ His only begotten Son for the redemption of humanity wherever it has not been heard.
MISSION
To find out places and people oblivious of the gospel of Christ Jesus then recruit, train and equip willing and dedicated children of God from different church background to join hands with us in planting living churches in such places.
OBJECTIVES
Our objective is to put in place mechanism wherewith we will meet people everywhere one on one to share our faith as simply and detailed as possible with them and then gather those who accept Christ as Lord and Saviour of their lives for regular biblical teachings and prayers until they come to full stature in Christ Jesus and become His disciple able to bring others to Him. II Tim. 2:2.
The year 1967 to 1982 marked the reign of a name in the juju music industry in Nigeria and beyond. It is the name Idowu Animasawaun of the Apola King fame. By divine encounter Idowu Animasawun turned a new life and got translated to the Kingdom of God, becoming an instrument in the hand of God for the pulling down of strongholds and demonic altars.
In the year 1985, God commissioned him and his wife, Deborah Animasawun to start a ministry that will take the light of the gospel of Christ to the dark places of Nigeria and beyond. This culminated into the emergence of Worldhope Ministries. After preliminary activities of the ministry in different facets of city outreaches and ministering to inmates in the prisons among others, Rev. Idowu Animasawun was led to Badeku, then a village in Ona-Ara Local Government Area of Oyo State, Off Ibadan-Ife Expressway. On getting to Badeku, a predominantly Islamic community
he began to witness and preach to the people most of whom find it difficult to fathom what he was up to, particularly those of them who had heard about his fame in the music industry. At that time his wife was teaching at St. Annes School, Molete, Ibadan but resigned her appointment to fully join her husband in Badeku in 1992.
WORLDHOPE MINISTRIES AT THE BEGINNING IN BADEKU, 30TH JANUARY, 1988
This ministry was started with just Seventy Naira (N70.00) at a time when N38 was exchanged to a dollar meaning that Rev. Idowu Animasawun had less than $2 at that time in 1988. He was given a room of 10 by 10ft in size to serve as both living room and fellowship centre at Atoode Compound, a house owned by Late Pa Ajibola.
