•For Touching The Lives Of Very Many In 2019
In the just-concluded year, 2019, Rev. Mother Esther Abimbola Ajayi travelled all over the world, touching lives. City People can authoritatively reveal how she moved from one country to the other, positively affecting the lives of many citizens. She didn’t just restrict her activities to Nigeria, she travelled round Africa and beyond, getting involved in the construction and completion of churches and structures for greater evangelism.
By virtue of her activities in 2019, Rev. Esther Ajayi emerged the leading philanthropist in Nigeria and City People has picked her as the 2019 Woman Of The Year. Year in, year out she has touched the lives of very many Nigerians both here and in the diaspora. She also supported church growth round the world. Her activities in 2019 was so huge that many, picked on her as one woman who made such a great impact on society.
Let’s tell you more. For those who don’t know, Rev. Mother Esther Abimbola Ajayi who is fondly called Iya Adura is the Founder of Love of Christ Generation Church (C & S Church) in London.
Over the last 12 months, everyone has been talking of how very generous Reverend Esther Ajayi has been to so many individuals and churches across Nigeria. And she has been doing it quietly. City People has a list of 25 churches she helped complete in Lagos & South West with specific instructions for her name not to be mentioned. He supports members of the CCC, just as she supports members of the Cherubim & Seraphim Church. Rev. Esther Ajayi is the popular London C&S Prophetess who spends heavily on Philantrophy & Charity. She has sponsored so many individuals. She has supported church growth all over the world, especially in Nigeria. And in the month of December 2019 alone, she was involved in so many churches programmes in Lagos.
She is one woman of God who has taken Generosity and Philanthropy not only as a way of life but to yet another level. Many don’t know her story. There is no hiding the fact that she is stupendously rich. But lets quickly tell you she spends big also. She spends all her resources on the work of God. Her biography, Exceptionally Outstanding, reveals a lot about this pretty woman who spends close to £1 million pounds a week on Charity.
What many do not know is that Prophetess Esther Ajayi struggled to make it in life to become a successful businesswoman and after God called her into the ministry her life changed dramatically. Reverend Esther’s philosophy of life and Doctrine are ingrained and they make her who she is today. Reverend Esther’s emphasis on Generosity as a way of life is Biblical. She is of the view that imbibing generosity in life should be a pre-requisite to those desirous of prosperity, as dictated by the Bible. “Some Christians are in financial poverty because they lack knowledge of the greatest book given to man-the Bible-which has all the keys to their of debt-free life” she explains.
“People say to me, ‘Reverend, I read my Bible all the time. My reply is, ‘Yes, you read your Bible, but do you apply it to your life?’ No matter how big your debt is, the Lord can free you from it. But you have to Give. One of the hardest things in life is Giving. The devil knows what you are going to get when you Give, so he doesn’t want people to Give. When Giving becomes a part of you, you don’t even see it. If you don’t give, you are not going to get; it is in the Bible-’Give and you shall be Given: You can pray from morning till evening. The principle is that Give and it shall be Given unto you. Luke Chapter 6 verse 38 says, ‘Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.’ I became debt-free when I understood the act of Giving, with expectation from the Lord. I started Giving from the little I had.
Without preference to religious or racial backgrounds, Reverend Esther has added value to the existence of a multitude of people in an unprecedented manner and contributed immeasurably to Christendom. Aside from supporting many church establishments and raising people’s churches-regardless of affiliation-and making stupendous donations to mountain churches, Reverend Esther, on a yearly-basis, sponsors over a hundred people to Jerusalem on- Holy Pilgrimage.
This sponsorship is in 3 batches every year. She pays all travelling, accommodation and feeding expenses and gives the pilgrims allowances to ensure they have an exhilarating experience during the pilgrimage. This project is called The Jerusalem Tour. At least 120 people go on Jerusalem Tour in all the batches every year. In March, 35 people; in July, 65 people and in December, 20 people-all flight tickets, accommodation and feeding duly paid for by her. To cap it all, she gives each pilgrim at least $300 as personal allowance. In spite of outrightly purchasing the building where the church is located from the Royal Association of Deaf People, Reverend Esther has been magnanimous enough to give the members of the association a 5-year free access for social gatherings and meetings in the church’s Function Room.
After Reverend Esther came into her good fortune, she got wind of the fact that her former boss at Clemento Furniture had gone into penury. Out of her own volition, she sought him out and blessed him with 5 million naira. Her former boss was shocked by her kind gesture, to say the least. He never thought for once that Reverend Esther would be used by God to bless him, later in life.
Reverend Esther is extra-ordinarily blessed by God and she in turn, blesses people liberally. Her church members often have life-changing experiences with her. One of such was when she recently blessed several members with cash gifts to improve their lives, during a church service. She holds the title of Matronthe and she financially supports more than 50 churches in Nigeria and other parts of the world. She was also recently inducted as the matron of GAB Awards as an appreciation of her immense support. In 2017, when she discovered that the founder of BEFFTA, Dr. Pauline Long, had been solely funding the prestigious award ceremony in London for 9 consecutive years, she pledged her lifetime financial support to BEFFTA. The Esther Ajayi Foundation, which she launched in London in 2017, focuses on Philanthropy, Volunteerism and making a difference in people’s lives: including taking care of the homeless adults in the society; those having difficulty with immigration; women in domestic violence and the orphans.
The scope of the foundation, it must be noted, is not limited to the United Kingdom and Nigeria, but all over the world. In 2018, its projection is to touch one million lives. It heavily supports youth empowerment and makes regular donations of self-empowerment items to the youth to add value to their lives and make them gainfully employed. It also built modern homes for the disabled and a rehabilitation centre for the Nigerians recently deported from Liberia, in Odogbolu, Ogun State, Nigeria. She empowers the poor and the disabled in Information Technology, (IT); engineering, tailoring and the likes. The centre is also equipped with a library.
Since its launch, the foundation has supported a countless number of people who have health challenges. It issues grants to charities working on community conservation, education and health projects and supports those in the criminal justice system. It also empowers women through gender equality; while advocating for peaceful societies globally. Its spread includes the United Kingdom, Ghana, Bulgaria and Nigeria and it is poised to be launched in the United States of America. Through Reverend Esther’s philanthropy, several people in Nigeria have received medical aid, including the popular Nigerian poet, Lanrewaju Adepoju, who had a N10 million eye surgery and other expenses taken care of. She also took care of the health challenges of Mr. Bukayo Bakare, who was ill with chronic osteolysis of the left femur and chronic ulcer of both legs for 15 years. He got succour when Reverend Esther paid the two million naira needed for his treatment.
Another Nigerian, Mr. Oladipupo, had Spinal vertebrae collapse with gibbous polyarticular arthropathy, in addition to bilateral shoulder and hip joint problem and needed to take a medical trip to Fortis Healthcare, New Delhi, India to survive; Reverend Esther paid the N6 million needed for his survival. She also donated N10 million for the medical operation of a four-year-old Nigerian boy in India; aside from distributing relief materials at the Royal Seed Orphanage in Ofankor, Central Region of Ghana, to support the orphans, among several other innumerable supports.
Reverend Esther is the Life Grand Patroness of the Good Samaritan Foundation, (TGSF)- a London-based foundation focusing primarily on alleviating bullying and violence among young adults, with a view to ending them and encouraging the youth to live a life free of crime. The foundation, through her support, recently distributed relief materials to the Internally Displaced People, (IDPs), in North-east Nigeria, in a bid to alleviate the scourges of insurgency. She was made the Life Matron of Buruj Sports Academy in 2017 during the academy’s 10th year anniversary. Prequel to this, she had immensely rewarded the team who had a successful outing in Manchester, United Kingdom; by winning the English International Super Cup. In December 2017, her foundation donated a million naira each to seven entrepreneurs at Ovation Carol in Lagos to start-up their businesses. She also launched The Esther Ajayi Foundation, Ghana at the prestigious Movenpick Ambassador Hotel, Accra on March 10, 2018.
In May 2018, Reverend Esther visited Turkey to give a helping hand to people living in refugee camps. By this time, the foundation had touched over 600,000 lives, indicating its potential of surpassing its one million people’s projection for 2018.
Despite her impressive achievements, Reverend Esther ceaselessly focuses on one unique project which would add value to people’s lives in different parts of the world and impact more positively on Christendom and the Cherubim and Seraphim Church Worldwide. The project is: building empires on acres of land in the United Kingdom, Nigeria and other parts of the world, with all the amenities of life including schools, accommodation, hospital, advice center, gymnasium, industrial kitchen, and the likes, at the underprivileged’s fingertips and this project, on completion, would effectively alleviate the problems of a countless number of people in the world and immeasurably add value to their lives.
