Gunmen attack foremost missionary, Bayo Famonure, wife and children

Bayo Famonure, family attacked by gunmen

 

The founding leader of Calvary Ministries popularly known as CAPRO, Bayo Famonure and members of his family were on Tuesday attacked by gunmen at his residence in Plateau State.

Famonure was the pioneer leader of Calvary Ministries which was established in 1975. The ministry is at the heart of missions in Africa. But he has since moved  to start another missions’ concern named Agape Missions and Evangelistic Network.  

In a terse message sent via SMS on Wednesday Famonure said the gunmen shot him in the head and leg but the bullets missed the bones in his legs while God did not allow the bullets to penetrate his head.

His wife and children were also shot by the gun men.

He said in the message that his wife has been rushed to the Jos Teaching Hospital noting however that she is stable. His children were shot in their legs. But according to him  the children are  in stable condition.

While asking believers to thank God on his behalf, he said he would not want to make further comment.

Famonure had in an interview  in 2015 narrated how he went to the  North-Central State for his youth service and how God lead him to start CAPRO

He said,  “I reported to camp which was at ABU (Ahmadu Bello University) Zaria, at the end of the one Month orientation camp I was posted Government Secondary School Soba, along with Brother Bode Ogunleye. While I was waiting for the principal to come and pick us, I dozed-off on my bed and had a vision in which God Ordered me to team-up with 4 other colleagues (Niyi Beecroft, Bode Ojoade, Bode Ogunleye, and Emeka Onukaogu) and have a Crusade to Zaria City, and I Jerked awake in excitement.

“Strangely enough within 30 Minutes all the other 3 Members who had been scattered to various places of primary assignment converged in my room miraculously (because there were no cell phones then). Niyi who was angry for being posted to Kaduna Breweries, went back to the NYSC officials and told them that a Son of the King CANNOT be making poison even as a Chemical Engineer.

“We began to meet every weekend in my place of posting from that August till December 25^th when we eventually attempted the Crusade praying and fasting, during our service year along with other Corpers and Believers. The Crusade was intended to be 3 days of preaching in the Walled city of Zaria, but on the 1^st day after the message came so powerfully and there were responses to the altar-call all Hell broke loose and it turned-out to be a Baptism of Fire, Stone and Blood.

“We still continued our crusades but around the Sub-hubs not within the walls of Zaria city anymore, that’s how the CAPRO vision started and concretized. God told me 4 months after the attempted Crusade to stay back in the North until Jesus becomes the LORD of those “Stone Throwers” and start a group to be known as Calvary Productions”

According to him God said “I want you to produce men for me.” I wrote things down, worked on it and brought some friends to join, that’s how the vision grew. Eventually we moved from Zaria to the Base in the Outskirts of town which is we named Kauna, (in Jaba Local Government of Kaduna State) before moving to Jos.”