Prof. Olukoya Rewards 492 First Class Graduates in Celebration of MFM@35

General Overseer of MFM Ministries Worldwide, Prof. Daniel Olukoya on Sunday, gave cash awards to over 492 members of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) who graduated with first class honours from their various universities.

The award ceremony marked the highlight of activities that brought to a close, the church’s 35th year anniversary celebrations and international convention held at the Prayer City, Lagos – Ibadan Expressway.

Under the auspices of ‘Dr D.K. Olukoya’s Academic Award of Excellence’, this year’s award event, attracted highest number of beneficiaries since its inception in 2010.

Olukoya, while announcing the numbers, told the congregation that the “Dr. DK Olukoya’s Academic Award of Excellence,” which is one of his 70-point agenda to reach out to the youth, was focused on presenting car gifts to the beneficiaries, could not be sustained after two editions as the numbers grew exponentially.

He said at the first edition, there were only 19 recipients, who also got car gifts.

The second edition, according to him, had 15 recipients and were presented with brand new QQ3 and QQ6 cars and certificates of honour.

Olukoya told the congregation that by the third edition, the number rose to 77 and because of the number, each recipient was given a cheque of N500,000 and certificates of honour.

He also said that at fourth edition, the number of first-class graduates within the membership of the church rose to 106 and each got a cheque of N500,000 and a certificate of honour.

Olukoya’s wife, Pastor Shade, was assisted in the presentation ceremony by Governors Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Dapo Abiodun and Sheriff Oborevwori of Lagos, Ogun and Delta, respectfully.

Olukoya admonished the youths to take advantage of the awards, adding that, “Of all churches I know of, MFM now produces the largest number of first class graduates every year.”

‎The convention, which opened for real spiritual activities, attracted hundreds of thousands of worshippers to the venue while millions of others are following the activities through the various alternative channels of the church.

The convention kicked off on Friday, August 16 with a series of lectures by anointed men of God.