BIBLE STANDARD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY
Bible Standard Christian Ministry began as a fellowship of few believers in September 1978. In its early years, it held its prayer and fellowship meetings in the parlour of Pastor Umoh Akpan Ekwo, its founder, who was then teaching Mathematics at Adiaha Obong Secondary Technical School, Ekpene Ukim, Uruan Local Government Area, of the old Cross River State, which is now in Akwa Ibom State.
The fellowship grew in leaps and bounds, spreading to surrounding villages, nearby towns and local government areas. Its former name of Bible Study Fellowship was dropped in 1981, when it was registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission as Bible Standard Christian Ministry. A product of the Nigerian revival of the 1970/80s, it is one of Nigeria’s leading evangelical churches laying strong emphasis on the subject of new birth and holy living, without which, no man shall see the Lord.

Bible Standard Church

With the rapid growth of the fellowship/ministry, and the need for the congregation to partake in all of God’s ordained ordinances and Biblical practices, a church wing, christened Bible Standard Church was added to the ministry in 1990, which even increased the speed and growth rate of the work. To date, March 2015, there are a total of 129 branches of the church, spread across seven (7) states of Nigeria, namely Akwa Ibom with 102 churches, Cross River with 19, Lagos with three (3), Rivers, Abia, Bayelsa and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. Effort are being made to formally open branches of the church in Republic of Cameroun.