It was a time of joy and celebration for the staff and students of Banham Methodist Academy on Tuesday 22nd of February, 2022 as the presiding pastor of Salvation Ministries Pastor David Ibiyeomie handed over the new school building he constructed for the Banham Methodist Academy to the Methodist Church.

Pastor David Ibiyeomie, an alumnus of the school earlier this year talked about how he went to the school for an event the previous year and discovered it was in a sad state. He said he could literally point at the particular spot he used to sit over forty (40) years ago and so he asked the school management for permission to take down the building so that he can build a new one.

The former building which was a storey building was constructed during the colonial era had less than ten classrooms. While the newly built school is a two (2) storey building that comprises of the following: sixteen(16) learning areas(classrooms), a store area, a head teacher’s office, reception area, two administrative offices and suites, one staff office, library, a crèche,a science laboratory, a home economics laboratory, thirty(30) VIP toilets(five on each wing), and a courtyard.

An archbishop of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Emmanuel Udofia, spoke about Pastor Ibiyeomie’s openness to people regardless of church denomination. He said “I just came in here barely two months taking over from my predecessor. I have heard your news, I have heard you, I have watched you, I have listened to you and I have seen you today. You are a man of action. For what you have done, I think it is a very good lesson that you are not a pastor that is found within an area. You are a man that God has given the gift and the talent to impact upon lives.”

Pastor David Ibiyeomie said “Life is all I said about contribution, if you are nothing to humanity there is no need existing. So, I felt that a place that has blessed my life I should also contribute in my little way to the place that has affected me positively. That is why we have just come to do what we have done. It is not all you have that matters but what you give to people. Life is about giving. You stop giving, you start dying. This is my own little way to say to the world, thank you and we will do more as we are alive.”

This is not the first time the pastor is getting involved with public charity as he previously donated an elderly home to the Catholic Church and donated a hostel to Ignatius Ajuru University in Rivers State.

He also gave a one-year scholarship to sixteen (16) pupils present at the ceremony.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHCc3FLG9Z0


See the pictures of the former building

See the pictures from the ceremony

More pictures of the building

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