Marrying a pastor is quite challenging – Mama Oritsejafor

PASTOR Helen Oritsejafor, apart from being the wife of the National President of both the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, and the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the founder of Word of Life Bible Church, Warri, Delta State, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, holds several other port folios.

She is the chief executive officer of Eagle Flight Microfinance Bank, president general of Daughters of Sarah Fellowship, chief host of Family Tips on African Broadcasting Network, ABN. Mama Helen, as she is fondly called by her numerous admirers, who turned down a Commissionership appointment in her native Ekiti State to marry a Warri-based Pastor Oritsejafor, also oversees the Eagle Heights Group of Schools, Eagle Heights Clinic as well as an orphanage owned by the church.

She is a mother and together with her husband, they have been taking the gospel of salvation, deliverance and healing to the nations of the world. In this interview with SAM EYOBOKA, the fearless disciplinarian who together with her husband made valuable contributions towards the resolution of the Niger Delta Crisis, expressed grave concerns about insecurity in the country. Excerpts….

You have been descri-bed as amiable, dynam-ic, excellent and with several other adjectives. What do you describe yourself?

I’m just me, Helen. I’m Ekiti turned Deltan, a child of God who believ-es very strongly in peo-ple. That’s who I am, Helen Oritsejafor.

Please tell me how you have been combining your numerous roles with that of keeping this house as the mother of these children, a wife of a pastor. And coordina-ting the church in the ab-sence of Papa?

A lot of people always ask me this and the only thing I say to them is it’s just the grace of God and I’m also a woman of pas-sion. Don’t forget that I have a commitment to God from the beginning of this marriage that I’ll do my husband good and not evil for the rest of my life.