MOUNT ZION FAITH MINISTRY IN THE NEXT 20 YEARS

Today marks the 60th birthday anniversary of the founder of Mount Zion Faith ministry, Evangelist Mike Bamiloye. He was born on April 13, 1960 at Ilesa. He founded his drama group named, Mount Zion Faith Ministry on August 5, 1985, his debut drama, titled “Hell in Conference” was staged at the National Christian Teachers Conference in 1986 at Ilesa in Osun State. 

He is married to Evangelist Gloria Bamiloye with children (Damilola, Joshua and Darasimi Mike-Bamiloye).  He has featured, produced and directed numerous Christian movies, some of his famous movies are Ultimate Power(Agbara Nla) , Apoti Eri and other spirit filled movies.

He started as a zealous teen at the age of 16 as a young believer from high school, attending fellowship which led him into College of Education, Ilesha, Osun State. At the age of 21 between the years 1981- 1983 he joined a drama group at the school Christian fellowship, writing scripts and also coordinating.

He discovered his purpose for God, preaching the gospel through drama. The vision became a reality after his youth service when God told him it won't be only a drama but a ministry. The group started preaching the gospel from the west to the North zone of Nigeria through stage drama till 1990 when the ministry produced its first movie.

Movies like Agbara Nla and Apoti Eri were very impactful and brought the ministry into limelight, the only means people can view  movies in those days is through the National Television, NTA. Years after, they started producing video cassettes which enabled people outside the country to have access to their movies. In the days of home video, movie production, sound and visual effects then are much different to what we have now in the days of modern filming technology.

These are the secret and the most important aspect Evangelist Mike Bamiloye has impacted into the life of his children which resulted into a reformed filming world. His son Damilola Mike Bamiloye can be described as a strong back bone the legend Christian filmmaker can rest on looking at his old age coming in. I know most of his time on movie sets will be on a directing bench, not for his old age neither lost of strength but a rest of mind.

Damilola Mike Bamiloye is a script writer, Director of Photography and a screenplay writer. His first production was Youthful lust, released when he was 15. In 2012 during his youth service he called his father that the lord told him to serve under his father as a personal assistant. After serving under him with various outreach they went together, they both traveled to Australia with his mum to shoot a movie titled Havest of Crises. On getting there, there was no camera man on ground to shoot the movie.

The vibrant young Damilola took the camera, DSLR 60D and locked himself in a room consulting YouTube for research about handling the camera. He later came out with full confidence to shoot after calling other camera men the ministry had been using, which resulted into many movies like:

-HARVEST OF Crisis, shot in Australia

-The Return, shot in Australia

-Caught In The Wind, shot in Australia

-Harmony Deal, shot in Australia.

- Rupanta  shot in India.

- Off Duty shot in London.

- Conspiracy, shot in USA

- Breaking Point, shot in USA

- Last Man Standing, shot in USA

- Exemplary, shot in USA

- Life of the Billows, shot in USA

- Abejoye-Intruder, shot in USA

All these movies apart from numerous ones shot  in Nigeria like “House On Fire” Parts 1-7, “Family Next Door” Parts 1 and 2, “Hunted”, ” Accountant”, “Manager” “Block 10” were all shot and directed by him. Damilola has introduced lots of modern techniques in effect, story line and directing in Mount Zion Faith ministry movies. World won't be surprised seeing the ministry hosting other Christians movies on a cable TV soon.

His brother is a music producer named Jay Mikee, Joshua Mike Bamiloye. He began his music ministry career at the age of 14 as a background music producer for Mount Zion Film Productions. Joshua started his song ministry in 2010 but didn't release his first album until 2013.  Dara is also doing well, working as a continuity manager on set of there various movie projects.