Salvation ministries started on the 13th of April 1997 at plot 35 Birabi Street GRA 1 Port Harcourt with 34 members: 15 males, 10 females and 9 children in attendance. Today, she has become a church with an over-flowing crowd in her headquarters now located at plot 17 Birabi Street GRA 1 Port Harcourt, her satellite churches and on the internet. Salvation ministries has increased from one Sunday service to five power-packed Sunday services.
In 2001, Salvation Ministries started her television program called THE HOUR OF SALVATION on NTA channel 10 Port Harcourt with the maiden episode, “FAITH IS NOW”. Today, she runs the same television program in over 40 television stations both locally and internationally. Some of these stations include:
- Salvation TV; the television station of the Commission
- Day star USA
- WRNN New York
- KICC Television London
- Inspiration Television United Kingdom
- GOD TV
- THE WORD NETWORK USA
- BEN TV United Kingdom
- WJYS TV Chicago
- MCTV CHANNEL 249 Chicago
- AIT NETWORK
- SILVERBIRD NETWORK
- ACBN e.t.c
In 2002, she started a household greatly sought-after radio program called “DESTINY MOULDING HOUR” which has now metamorphosed into a 24hour online radio station called SALVATION RADIO on the 22nd of January 2014; transforming the lives of millions of people all around the globe.
In August 2001, she started an indoor healing miracle program tagged “HEALING MIRACLE AND DELIVERANCE SERVICE”. This service however metamorphosed into the PORT HARCOURT MIRACLE CRUSADE in November 2003 at the ALFRED DIETE-SPIFF SPORTS COMPLEX CIVIC CENTRE MOSCOW ROAD Port Harcourt. The Port Harcourt Miracle crusade moved from Civic Centre to PORT HARCOURT LIBERATION STADIUM in 2007.
After the 2007 episode of the Port Harcourt Miracle Crusade at the Port Harcourt Liberation Stadium, it became obvious that the stadium could no longer hold the capacity crowd, the program had to be moved to the church site at Igwuruta in Port Harcourt in January 2010 and continued until 2011 and was then called NIGHT OF GLORY.
In 2012, the NIGHT OF GLORY program metamorphosed into the 5NIGHTS OF GLORY with 49 viewing centres. The last episode of 5NIGHTS OF GLORY in January 2017 had over 950 viewing centres with millions of viewing points on the internet from all over the world hooking up to be part of the global event.
On the 13th of February 2011, the church started 14 satellite churches in one day, with all running five services each; a record breaker in the history of church growth. She currently has over 180 Satellite churches and counting with over 300 pastors (both full time and part time) within and outside Nigeria.
Salvation Ministries believes in reaching out to the lost at all cost. In a bid of achieving this, she organizes outreaches and other outdoor miracle programs both locally and internationally such as:
- Bayelsa Miracle crusade
- Maryland miracle crusade
- Festival of Miracles Maryland
- GLORY, POWER AND MIRACLE Crusades
These have produced landmark testimonies.
Salvation Ministries has published over 65 books authored by both the presiding pastor David Ibiyeomie and his lovely wife, Pst. Mrs. Peace Ibiyeomie; with best sellers such as
- THE POWER OF VISION
- HOW TO COME OUT OF DEBT
- TIME TO MAKE NEWS
- WALKING IN DIVINE HEALTH
- SIX STEPS TO MULTIPLICATION
- POWER IN THE NAME OF JESUS
- TOUCH OF EXCELLENCE
- HOLY SPIRIT MY HELPER
- BUSINESS SECRETS
- SEE YOU AT THE TOP
- THE PRUDENT WOMAN among others.
Salvation Ministries also believes in helping the less privileged through her welfare programs and schemes namely:
- Scholarship
- Welfare to widows
- Free medical outreaches
- Gifts to orphanages and so on
In 2016, he awarded scholarship to 634 students in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions.
She believes in contributing and impacting society. She cannot stand the suffering of the masses. She had sent relief materials to flood victims and war torn areas such as:
- BAYELSA, Nigeria
- JOS, Nigeria
- LIBERIA and so on.
She also reconstructed several roads in the city of Port Harcourt for easy mobility and to make the environment more habitable. She is seriously involved in community services and regular environmental clean-up exercises.
Committed to building a caring and loving Society, furnished with dignity and harmony, Salvation Ministries renovated and donated modern hospital equipment worth over two hundred thousand U.S Dollars to the pediatric section of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) Nigeria; creating a wonderful ambiance to expedite the recovery of the patients .
Salvation Ministries is currently building a home for the elderly in Port Harcourt which will be equipped with the state of the art facilities that will suit the personal needs of the senior citizens who require some assistance with daily activities and health care; so they can age with dignity.
The presiding pastor of the Commission, GOD’s servant, David Ibiyeomie was born in Bonny Island, Rivers State, Nigeria. He is blessed with unusual divine speed. He became born again in 1995 and went to BIBLE SCHOOL that same year. Two years after, on Sunday April 13th 1997, with 34 persons in attendance and the mandate TO ESTABLISH THE KINGDOM OF GOD HERE ON EARTH through infallible proofs, David Ibiyeomie started Salvation Ministries, the Home of Success; now one of the fastest growing churches in the world.
