JESUS REVIVAL FOR ALL NATIONS
Rev. IRINE ASHU, PhD - Founder
The Founder
At a very tender age growing up in Cameroon, I loved God with an unusual passion. As a child at the tender age of six, I would always cry in church whenever the message of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ was being preached. At that time, we had a priest who loved to raise some particular songs after his messages. For example, he liked to intone “Hark the voice of Jesus calling. Who will go and work today?” Another song he liked was “Whom shall I send and who will go for us?” Whenever these songs were being sung in church, I would be crying and telling my parents to answer the call of Jesus and go work for Him.
One day in church when l was 8 years old, as the congregation was singing one of those songs, I told my Papa that Jesus is calling him, and that he should answer Jesus. My sweet Father turned around and looked at me and with his sweet gentle voice, said something interesting. He said, “my daughter you can answer Jesus if you want to.” At that moment, there was a certain peace and joy that came upon me and my eyes were filled with tears of joy. So, I asked him; “Papa, so I can also say yes to Jesus?” He said, “Yes, my child you can if you want to.” Those words from my father were very powerful and from then, I walked around telling God to send me and use me to reach many with the love and compassion that He has for all men. I will never forget that lovely day.
Rev. IRINE ASHU, PhD
My journey as a crusader for Jesus Christ began that season. Few weeks after that memorable exchange, I asked my parents if I could join the Cadets of Mary to enable me go out with other girls of my age to minister around the neighborhood and they both gave their permission. During my elementary, secondary and high school education, though in the World, I continued to minister to my peers, staff and different neighborhoods whenever the need arose. While in high school, my passion grew as I saw many young and vibrant individuals wasting their precious lives with the pleasures of the world. My own life was no different from that of my age group, but there was something in me that held me back and ministered the truth in me each time I was doing what was not of the Lord. My friends usually called me a sell-out. Despite my worldly way of life, the Spirit of Christ in me would never let me miss Sunday service, no matter what happened on Saturday night. At this moment in my life, I began to hear and understand the voice of the Lord through His words leading me to individuals for salvation. When I arrived in Canada, I proceeded to work with Toral Cast, a division of Magna and later went back to school and studied community and social services work. During my years in college, I kept hearing this still small voice in me asking me to go study my word. So, I joined a prayer group and I hosted a branch of our then church home cell in my home, just to know more of God’s word. After I had my handsome and perfect-in- Christ children, I did open a restaurant but I was not successful with the restaurant for it was gradually turning into a prayer and counselling house. So, I went and inquired of the Lord why that was happening. The response I got from the Lord was that I should go and study His Word, and then counsel and revive His people.. In my own little mind, I thought the Lord wanted me to become a psychologist. So I closed the restaurant and moved to York University to study psychology. While studying at York University, my grades were very good but I had a series of financial difficulties beyond any human understanding.
I was not fulfilling my purpose despite the fact that I was doing very well in the program. During my years at York University, the Spirit of God would always tell me to go and study the book that water runs out of. I began searching for explanations and studying my bible even more and I bought and read uncountable spiritual books from cover to cover. Yet, the voice of God would not stop telling me to go and study His word. I was particularly impacted by “where there is no prophet my people perish.”
I was confused at this time because I was literally doing my best in studying the word of God. It got to a point where I had so many challenges in my life and no company would hire me. It was so bad that not even a factory would hire me, no matter what I did. At one point during this journey, I was also abandoned by very close family and friends. One day, while praying and asking God for clear direction, I heard those songs that I had heard in church when I was a little girl and which troubled my soul (“Send me I will go Lord” and” Hark the voice of Jesus calling”) The Lord repeated that “ go and study my word.” At this point, I got even more frustrated and I shouted that I have been studying and what do you want from me, Lord? The gentle but lion-like voice spoke and said “Go to school and study my Word for you promised if I send you, you will go.” I replied and stated clearly that I am not a pastor so why would you ask me to go to Bible School?. I went further to say I would not be labelled as one of the frustrated women whom life challenges have made frustrated and desperate and, are now using God as a cover-up. I will not go down in history like that. And the gentle voice said to me” if you don’t go you will be registered as one who was rejected by close love ones and ended up in a mental institution. Fulfill your promises to me and be free my child and I will make you the envy of the world.” This was the reality I needed to hear. So, I dropped out in pursuit of my calling and passion. I went into World Impact Bible Institute in Toronto and graduated with a diploma in Biblical Studies and later acquired Bachelors and Masters degrees in Christian Counselling and later a PhD in Ministry. During my years in World Impact Bible Institute, I was directed by the Lord to volunteer my home and time in teaching children and adults about the Word of Truth..
During this period, my passion and hunger for ministry and the Call of God in my life grew drastically and led me to travel to many parts of Africa for the Gospel of Christ. After many missionary trips to Africa, I was instructed by the Lord Almighty to create a platform for Him where people of all Nations and colour would come and worship Him in spirit and in truth and Jesus will revive them from the troubles of this world and they will find love, compassion, salvation, fellowship, comfort and union with Him, their Creator and Father. (The circumstances of your life are your ministry professor, you become the best teacher of what you have actually experienced in life and not from what others say or write)