TKP
TKP was born in the city of Jos, on August 2nd 1996.
No formal launching. No funfair. Just two members of staff, (i.e. the Director and his wife) accompanied with their eight-month old baby-girl took off on this Abrahamic journey; committing the unknown future to a known God. This organization that had no address at the beginning now has resident missionaries in Nigeria, Benin Rep., Niger Rep., Togo, Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire, Uganda, Cameroon, Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America & Canada. TKP also carries out outreaches in Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Rwanda, Kenya, Burundi & South Africa.
As at the time TKP started, big missionary organizations had an inexplicable attraction for Jos, the capital city of Plateau state. Being warned against status quo, we began to pray about where God wants us to be based. Ilorin was the answer that came from God. Exactly a year after, TKP moved her base to Ilorin, the capital city of Kwara state, Nigeria.
Planning the relocation was an uphill task; my wife was eight months pregnant and cash was not available to embark on the journey. We eventually moved our luggage by train. A CAPRO missionary offered to give my wife and our first daughter a ride to Ilorin while I joined a commercial bus. We arrived Ilorin on 6th August, 1997. After about two weeks of homelessness, the LORD miraculously gave us a place at Veterinary street, Ministry of Agric area of Kulende. Our landlord and his wife were so nice to us. At first, it was the B.Q. that was given to us for rent. After two years, he asked if we would be interested in renting the main house, so we moved into the main house. As at then, Veterinary street was not as developed as it is today. We had no choice than to accept and embrace what the LORD provided for us. Considering my frequent journeys and the difficulties of accessing the place whenever I return to town in the night, I made an attempt to get another place, but the LORD told me plainly “I PUT YOU HERE BECAUSE I NEED TO HIDE YOU”
We stayed in this house for 17 years. On a particular Sunday, sometimes in December 2012, the LORD spoke to me while alone in the house: “Your time is up here”. By Monday the following day, the landlord’s wife came to my office to give a one-year quit notice. Eventually, we moved out of the house by 25th June, 2014, having spent 17 years in the place where the LORD HID US.
On the 2nd of September, less than one month after we arrived Ilorin and less than two weeks after we settled in the house where the LORD decided to hide us; we woke up with ninety naira (N90=). This kind of lean purse was a usual experience. Around 4pm, a brother came and told me that he would love to pay our rent for three months. He handed two thousand one hundred naira (N2,100=) to me and left. I attempted to walk him to the gate, but the brother disappeared. As soon as I returned to the house, my wife told me that she had a feeling our second baby would arrive that evening. By 6pm, we headed for the Maternity at Amilegbe. Thanks to our neighbour, Prof. Oluboyo who gave us the ride. By 9pm, my wife was delivered of our second daughter. By the time we were discharged the following day, we had spent exactly two thousand one hundred naira. It then dawned on me that the money brought the previous day was not actually for rent but for ‘baby delivery’.
Our first office in Ilorin was located on number 6, Veterinary Street, Kulende, Ilorin. It was a two-room Boys Quarters (BQ) which also doubled as the residence for the International Director and his family. The corporate head office moved to the 2nd Floor, 26, Sulu-Gambari road, Ilorin in August 1998.
This was where TKP Headquarters carries out her operations until the year 2018 when she moved to her own property (TKP TENT) on, 7 Christ Avenue, off University Road, Tanke, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria.
TKP’s first mission field in Nigeria was Lanwa and the surrounding communities. Activities in this field commenced in 1998. One of the villages in the environ of Lanwa is Elebu. Today, THE KINGDOM PROJECTS runs a missionary-oriented hospital in Elebu serving a cluster of rural communities. This hospital started operation in July, 2011. It has one medical doctor and two nurses.
Our first mission field outside Nigeria is Niger Republic. Work commenced among the Songhai people group in Tillabery town of Niger Republic in 1999. Our work expanded to Senegal in the year 2003. TKP International Director carried out a field survey in some part of West Africa when he travelled by road to Senegal in 2002. During this survey, St. Louis was identified as the base for our work among the Wolof people of Senegal. Sequel to all these preparations, a missionary lady was commissioned and sent to St. Louis, Senegal in February, 2003.