The grace of the Lord continues to manifest itself in continuance and growth of the vision which undergirds International Ministers Fellowship. We are pleased to note that He has inspired, guided and propelled us to live in His sight as a network of the remnant, devoid of the stifling features of Religion and religiosity.

Review of 2024. Key Highlights

• Kingdom Culture. The advancement of Kingdom Culture in the earth realm is accomplished by the Holy Spirit through the Word. Ephesians 5: 25-27 makes it clear that the core instrument which the Holy Spirit uses to perfect the Church is the Word. In 2024, we engaged in updating/revision of some courses while new ones were developed. Pastor Grace received grace to publish 8 of the 21 Books the Lord gave her. These resources are freely available on these sites: www.gsom.ac and www.assuringgrace.org .

• Arise Online Church Without Walls which supplies the boots on the ground for growing the International Ministers Fellowship was finally able to obtain permanent schedule to use the Elm Park Assembly Hall for face-to-face services on weekly basis. The Lord has enabled Fivefold ministry to emerge, using the Master plan Yeshua, Jesus granted to the Church through Apostle Paul. We have seen a situation where all the brethren are receiving consistent teaching, training, equipping, activation of their gifts and callings and released to serve the Lord without limitations. That model is what Global School of Ministry centres are seeking to replicate across the world. The reason we cite this is that the Lord says this is the key to ensure the long-term sustainable growth of International Ministers Fellowship.
• Another critical resource that Elohim is using Arise Metropolitan Assembly to model is in the area of Prayer, Intercession and Spiritual Warfare. All the saints are impressed on the critical need for a life of prayer. With the critical mass available, the Lord has inspired hundreds of brethren worldwide to sign up for various prayer moves that the Holy Spirit uses to undergird the leadership and entire vision of International Ministers Fellowship on a daily and even hourly basis.

Regional Missions

The Go Ye/Evangelism team at Mission Central led by Evangelist Mudi Fashe and Evangelist Nobert was primed to support ministers in the network. Part of the team travelled to Castlebar and Roscommon, Ireland; Cardiff, Wales, Boston, Portsmouth and Southampton to preach the word and signpost souls to local congregations they went to support. This is part of the catalyst role of Arise Online Church Without Walls.

Global Missions

The International President was inspired, directed and empowered by the Lord to undertake extensive missions throughout 2024. This includes Missions to these nations:

Austria. A Mission to encourage Arena of Glory Ministries led by Apostle Solomon Robinson, the IMF contact with Pastor Grace was used by the Lord to bless them.

Ireland. The 60^th  birthday of Pastor Kazeem Ogunsakin, National President.

USA: National Conference in Washington DC, followed by trips to Greensboro, North Carolina; Kilgore, Dallas and Austin in Texas)

Slovenia – where some enduring Divine Connections touch the Slavic world.

South Africa – short but effective visit which rejuvenated the network.

Zimbabwe – National Conference in Harare, visit to the widows at Epworth and the orphanage at Waterfalls.

Zambia Ministry in a 2-day conference was used by the Lord to boost the Fellowship.

Kenya. A GSOM ordination was occasion to boost the Fellowship and expand its reach.

Ghana A GSOM Graduation in Kumasi and vision sharing in Accra led to a fresh start.

Liberia A GSOM graduation was occasion to expand IMF in Boys Town and Bernard Farms.

2^nd Ireland. The National Conference injected impetus for the chapter.

Italy. The 55^th birthday of Apostle Patric and 20^th wedding anniversary with his wife Pastor Obedience led to s strategic spiritual warfare project in Padova.

The Vatican. This was entirely for a prophetic prayer assignment.

Brussels. This was entirely for a prophetic prayer assignment.

The United Kingdom: These cities and counties were visited by the International President as part of Home Missions: Old Kent Road for the IMF-UK National Conference; Portsmouth (to minister at the annual retreat of the Sisters Keepers Christian Association International), Southampton (to visit our brethren Brother Obi, his wife Dr Chiamaka and family); Chattam, Medway in Kent (for the first anniversary of New Glory Church led by Pastors Frank & Pastor Mavis Nnabue.

It is noteworthy that delegates connected to the meetings from Malawi, Uganda, Nigeria, Benin Republic and  Cote D’Ivoire.

• Online empowerment. Building on the grace Elohim released during the global COVID-19 Pandemic, the Facebook Live and zoom platforms were greatly used to train and empower saints in 10 nations of Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific Region, namely India, Pakistan, Nepal, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Australia. This was also done with the Now Generation Master Class; the Ondo and Imo States GSOM centres in Nigeria. A similar arrangement was implemented in Kenya.

Through these discipleship, training and empowerment projects, International Ministers Fellowship experienced growth.

• Compassion. The Lord enabled this network to manifest the grace of Love manifested as Compassion towards the less privileged. This was implemented through various agencies which focus on their core mandates.

• Let Brotherly love continue, launched some years ago continues to be a source of comfort and consolation to ministers and brethren in the Frontline of the Third Word.  IMF-USA met its obligations up to about 90 percent towards the brethren in Asia. IMF UK met its obligation to saints in Africa up to 60 percent. The President of IMF Ireland stood in the gap for his chapter. Italy was able to support according to its ability. IMF South Africa and IMF Nigeria were not able to participate as expected.

• We Care International. Created as the Compassion arm of IMF, this entity has not fully taken off as it should because the national chapters have not fully implemented the vision. As of today, IMF-USA led by Minister Rose Etuka has been able to achieve a great measure of operational efficiency. Hopefully more brethren will donate more consistently to it. We hope We Care UK led by Teachers Bridget and Akwasi Nuamah will be embraced and supported by the national chapter. The Presidents of IMF in these nations: Ireland, Italy, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe are hereby charged to activate and support the funding of We Care chapters

Global Missions Board birthed at Mission Central, it has with limited resources continued to support orphanages, orphans and widows in some nations of Africa. With very low revenue, the Board has broadened its approach to supporting individual orphans. For 2025, the Board would like Families, Ministries and congregations to prayerfully consider sponsorship of these individuals:

>Nigeria: a 4^th year Medical Student and a 1^st year student of Cyber Security need support to complete their studies..

>Zambia: Sponsorship of 2 youths who grew up and were raised in the P. Jabangwe Children’s Home. They recently passed their Matriculation exams and were admitted into universities.

> Liberia: The wife of a leader in the network needs financial sponsorship to undertake a degree in Nursing. Achieving her dream would empower the family to be financially independent.

• Africa Transformation Network. Birthed out of the birthday gifts that were due to Apostle George, this Kingdom agency has been used of the Lord to enhance the quality of life of brethren in some nations of Africa. In 2024, projects to empower saints to activate cooperative businesses were funded in Nigeria (East, West and North), Ghana (Kumasi), Cote D’Ivoire, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Niger Republic, DRC Kinshasa, Zimbabwe. We are grateful for all partners who helped to actualise this vision and look forward to more sponsors of poverty eradication/reduction initiatives.

Shifts and Trends.

In the last few years, it pleased Elohim to bring these trends into being:

In July 2024 Apostle Sheldon and Lady Deborah Southerland completed an assignment from the International President: installation of Prophet Jeremiah (39) and his dear wife, Pastor Brittney Shepherd as the 7^th National President of the Chapter. With their accension to office, millennials have embraced the Fellowship.

New website

The Lord has used Prophet Jeremiah, an accomplished graphic artist, to rebuild the official IMF website. www.imfministers.com is poised to provide the network a truly global portal for interaction, information and building an online community. There will be profiles of National chapters for easy access and many other features. We enjoin national Presidents to cooperate with the Global Executive Director of Communication, Apostle Dr Katherine Jones, the Global Executive Director of Administration, Teacher Stephanie Foster to collate the information Prophet Jeremiah will need to populate the site.

A modernised logo.

After so many years of using a logo that did not meet global standards, the Lord has blessed the Fellowship with a new logo and matching colour scheme that reflects modernity and has greater appeal to those in the digital age. As well as the website, Prophet Jeremiah designed the logo, free of charge. We are grateful to Elohim for the burden in his heart for IMF.

New National President for Zimbabwe.

Bishop Jonathan Chatendeuka graciously handed over the staff of office of the National President of IMF Zimbabwe to Apostle Patience Kutinyu. The Board of Trustees has been reinvigorated.

The Asia, Middle East and Pacific Region.

The International President has continued with the empowerment of ministers in the 10 nations which are part of this region through a special Master Class programme. In the process, the ministers are being prepared to effectively take their place in what Elohim wants to do with International Ministers Fellowship in the region. We are grateful to Elohim for Pastor Seema Kale and Apostle Jacob Chacko who have partnered with us in the process of service delivery.

Zambia.

Zambia is the only nation in the world that is constitutionally designated as a Christian nation. During the last visit there, the Lord used Apostle Steven and Pastor Monicca Nkando mightily, with the support of brethren they co-labour with to host a two day Conference where the Lord moved mightily to the degree that IMF was expanded greatly.

Special Measures.

These IMF National Chapters will receive enhanced oversight from the International President and the Global Executive to ensure that their full potentials are realised: Nigeria, South Africa

Walking in Light and being a Light to the Remnant.

The Lord has blessed us with a suite of revelational truth concerning the End Times. Called the Systematic Eschatological Studies, these courses that are in ebook form for free download on the website www.gsom.ac will empower all members of the network to gain real understanding of the end times and be equipped with truth to overcome: i. The Things to Come: What Next? ii. Understanding the End Times iii. 7 Letters from Heaven iv. Revelation Unveiled (Verse by Verse Commentary) v. Completing the Unfinished Reformation vi. Dispensation, Seasons and Times.

Acknowledgement.

Before we conclude this report, it is needful to acknowledge the extraordinary investments of some brethren in consolidation and expansion of the vision.

We acknowledge the President’s Special Assistants : Minister Elect Akalonu who coordinates the global media work on social media and is pioneer  Director of Africa Transformation Network, Evangelist Kwabena Owusu, who though based in Ghana has dome an incredible work on serving on a voluntary basis as Graphics artiste; Pastor Toyin Jama & Minister Favour Akalonu who have been working on assembling and collating information on practical resources ministers of the gospel worldwide can utilise to better their lot; Evangelist Mudi, Evangelist Nobert &  Pastor Kemi who are virtually on call to execute special assignments at short notice Mudi, the entire Mission Central Team who are the IMF Boots on the ground; Deaconess Daisy as Global Missions Board UK  Director with her team; Teacher Bridget Nuamah who is pioneering the emergence of Kingdom Boks Club (Europe) as Managing Editor; Teacher Stephanie Foster who has coordinated the Office of the International President in the USA for over 7 years.

  We acknowledge the Special role of Prophet Uloma Edna Ahuama as Global Executive Director of Prayer, Intercession & Spiritual Warfare along with her core team and various associated Prayer teams worldwide.

  We acknowledge the effective service of Pastor Liz Emuchay as the Open Gates Director with full encouragement and support of her husband, Pastor Jeremiah and Joshua their son

  70th birthday of Global Governing Council Chair, Dr Cosmas Ilechukwu in September 2024. An enduring Legacy therefrom is publication of his autobiography ‘In Conversations with myself’. We asked him to bring some copies so that as many members of this Fellowship as possible will get to know him better and receive the challenge to pay the price of success in ministry and life by embracing our own crosses

  Every one of the approximately 20 people across the world who think of us and give graciously to support our sustenance. As both of us are serving full time, without any income and do not monetise any grace, the significance of what these saints do is truly significant. We acknowledge that IMF Presidents in U.K, Italy, and Ireland joined GPRC Kilgore and Friendship Community church in Greensboro to make institutional commitment following the resolution at last year’s Open Gates which encouraged brethren to support us. While we obviously need much more resources to live as a family and operate the network, we are grateful to Elohim for those whose loving giving made them true partners in the gospel. May Elohim repay them abundantly.

Group Legal Advisor. Expansion of the network in the midst of a world system opposed to grace requires us to be ever ready for potential challenges. Accordingly, Barrister Ngozi Olehi, SAN of Owerri, Imo State of Nigeria has agreed to offer his Chamber’s expertise in legal issues free of charge to IMF International. He will serve alongside Evangelist Veronica Ikechi and Pastor Ross Monioro as a Group Legal Advisor.

The Open Gates Choir

As we have seen so far from two ministrations, there is now a standing Choir for Open Gates. We call on all brethren who are gifted in the area of Praise and Worship to sign up for a Mass Choir that will practice extensively online and serve in this department from the next Open Gates, if the Lord tarries.

The Way Forward.

The Lord has been speaking expressly that This Fellowship was raised for such a time as this when the remnant worldwide needs a platform to connect, interact and build up each other. Let everyone of us be persuaded about this, take our place and invest in the growth of the network. Foundationally, this is a network ordained to work for all who are part of it. After all, one of our cornerstones is the reality that ‘we are Better, Together’! As the International President has repeatedly exhorted us, it is time for as many of us as possible to make real connections when we gather. We ought to be willing for the Holy Spirit to lead us to undertake Home, Regional or Global Missions to the cities and nations where our brethren are, work together to ensure that the gospel of the Kingdom is preached in all the world for a witness to all nations before the End Comes, just as Matthew 24: 14 says.

Before closing, let us acknowledge the need by some of our brethren for total healing and pray in one accord for same: Pastor Linda Didier, Pastor Racheal Chukwuemeka, Apostle Ron Shepherd, Teacher Akwasi and Brother Sol. We pray for speedy healing of all of them and any other brethren across the world in need of a touch, in the Name of our Lord, Yeshua, amen!

Finally, this year 2025 corresponds to the Hebraic year 5785 which speaks of the breath of Elohim, His Grace and a Window of Opportunity for all who believe to walk in divinely orchestrated breakthrough. This is consistent with our 2025 theme: GRACE. The Keynote Address by Dr Cosmas set the ball rolling. All other speakers are building on the theme so that by the time we complete the Open Gates 2025 Conference, all of us will receive an impetus to launch out to the realm of irreversible breakthrough.

Let us therefore Awake from sleep, Arise from Slumber, Align with King Yeshua and each Other and Advance Together into the fullness of divine purpose.

Apostle George & Pastor Grace

Vision Holders/International President