About Us
Breaking barriers, Raising champions, Adorning your world with praise
Fountain of Praise Christian Center is a vibrant multinational Church aimed at reaching the unreached and supposedly unreachable with the emancipating gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, with a view to helping them maximise their God given potentials, to live their lives in ways that will positively impact the society.
In Fountain of Praise Christian Center, we have an ambitious yet attainable vision to grow into a church made up of people from many different backgrounds and nationalities, united with a passionate desire to worship with, and love one another, impacting the United Kingdom and the world with the presence and power of God.
We are actively growing into a centre of excellence, with an international reputation for pioneering advanced cultivation and practice of the presence of God. Everything we do is informed by our passion for giving the highest quality worship and service to God and best quality humanitarian care for the community at large.
We believe in the power of God’s word to change lives and value the practical application of His word to make a difference in who we are and what we do; believing and obeying His message leads us in the discovery of real life and a hope for eternity.
Our mission is to position the unexpected and the unlikely for the prolific move of God in the 21st Century and beyond. We are committed to ministering to the destiny of all who come in contact with us, to assist them through the word and covenant relationships to become all that God has called them to become and do all that God has Called them to do.
Steve Ikebuwa is the Founding pastor of Fountain of Praise Christian Center worldwide.
Empowered For Mission
Fountain of Praise Christian Center (FOPCC) is a spring-forth of a desire to see God’s praise in its perfection, a declaration and release of quality praise by a peculiar people to the Almighty God, through a lifestyle of pure faith and active participation in dynamic, fluid, and unadulterated worship of the true God. The ministry began as an Interdenominational campus fellowship in the then Bendel State University (Now Ambrose Alli University), Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria.
In line with its purpose, the fellowship was named Fountain of Praise (FOP). The work started in 1993 with only four persons in attendance. FOP Ekpoma today has over a hundred members. Interestingly, all graduate members of the fellowship remain proudly associated with the fellowship.
Today, Fountain of Praise Christian Center that started as a campus fellowship has developed and grown into a full-fledged ministry with a church in Asaba, the campus fellowship is still at Ekpoma and fondly referred to as “the Vibrant Family”. The international headquarters is now in Kent, United Kingdom. The ministry has reached out to the unreached and supposedly unreachable in the towns where Fountain of Praise Christian Center was located. FOPCC believes that Ministry as it were, is about seeing needs and going all out to meet the needs.
On the campus front, the ministry has affected many lives positively in remarkable ways. Campus miscreant have been transformed into great men of God today. FOPCC has raised people who hitherto were roped by inferiority complex and saw themselves as unfortunate nobodies but were discipled for Christ and challenged by entrusting leadership responsibilities on them. They eventually turned out to be experts in their various leadership endeavours.
Isaiah 61:3 – “To console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified”.
Genesis 49:10 – The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Isaiah 43:21 – This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
Breaking barriers, Raising champions, Adorning our World with Praise.
The Living word of God – the Holy Bible is our standard for living, discipline, and operation.
- That the Bible is the inspired and infallible word of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. (1 Tim 3:16)
- That Salvation and Redemption are not by works but through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 2:8)
- In the Holy Trinity, and that Jesus Christ is God manifested in the flesh. (1 John 5:7; 2 Corinthians 13:14; John 1:1-12; Colossians 1:1-10)
- In the Resurrection of the dead in Christ into life eternal. (1 Corinthians 15:12-24)
- In the Imminent personal bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts1:10-11)
- That the Communion as represented by the Bread and the Wine is a symbol of our baptism into the body of Christ. (1 Corinthians 11:23)
- That Healing through faith is a part of our redemptive rights in Christ. (Isaiah 53:1-5; 1 Peter 2:4)
- In Eternal Judgement as exemplified in the Word of God. (Hebrew 9:27)
- In Water Baptism by immersion as a symbol of our faith in the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. (John 3:3-8; Matthew 28:16-20)
- In the Baptism of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:11; Acts 8:17)
In Tithes and Offerings as a form of Divine Worship to our God Almighty. (Malachi 3:6-11; 2 Corinthians 9:6-8)
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