PROFILE OF PASTOR DONALD AKOMAYE ALI AND HOW INNER HOUSE CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY BEGAN.
Pastor Donald Akomaye Ali is native of Abonkib village from Obudu local government of cross river state, Nigeria – West Africa – Africa. He was born on the fourth of December 1970 at Obudu sacred heart hospital to the family of Mr. And Mrs. Peter Christophe Ali. He started his primary school in Angwa Shanu primary school in Kaduna and finished in St Charles secondary school Obudu in Cross River state in 1982. He went to Jos in plateau state in 1983 to learn a trade he return to Obudu to continue his technical work with oversea technical services and proceeded to secondary school in the year 1987 and finish secondary education in 1992 jamb only disappointed him once he proceeded to the federal college of education Obudu where he took a level courses in social science and arts during his NCE course he doubled as the Nigerian fellowship of evangelical students bible studies coordinator and the student union financial secretary – on leaving the FCE he proceeded to the university of calabar in cross river state where he undertook a course in curriculum and learning religious education unit. He graduated in 2000 and came for his NYSC service in Abuja in June he was posted to government secondary school Kuje where he served and was divinely asked to stay by the Almighty God. My journey so far in ministry started as far back as 1977 when I was a little kid I will move away from where people are to a quiet place and begin to ask myself questions why did God create me? Why am i in this planet earth? Why was it through these parents of mine Mr. And Mrs. Peter C Ali that i have come to this world? As little as I was I started deducing answers to these rhetorical divine questions, I ask myself then I concluded I was created for a purpose and I must leave to fulfill that purpose in God so I started attending catechism at that age but they refuse to give me first holy communion, that I was too small. While interviewing my Mum about my birth she help to throw more light on it by saying that my Dad had his first wife who delivered two baby girls for him and one died of hot water accident before they separated, on marrying my mother she came and delivered a baby girl first my Dad became angry that is it only baby girls his wives would be delivering and he told my Mum that if the next baby isn’t a baby boy he will no longer continue with my mum as a wife so, my mum went into prayer and told God he should give her a baby boy she does not want her children to suffer as orphans, so I became that answer of the innocent woman prayed to God for, so my coming was with a divine hand of God so there was great joy when I was born. By the time my parents relocated to Obudu Cross River state in 1979 the joy of serving God in the Roman Catholic Church had overwhelm us. my mum being a cook with the Nigerian defense
academy (NDA) in those days was stop from selling of hot drinks and cigarettes in the
neighborhood by the church authority however, with that zeal from Kaduna we landed home to
meet a different set up entirely, our quest and hunger for righteousness started diminishing
gradually, what helped me was that I lay hold on interdenominational fellowships such as
scripture union (SU) Full Gospel Businessmen fellowship international and the nearby Nigerian
fellowship of evangelical students (NIFES). All these started in 1990 by the time I was leaving
secondary school in 1992 I was already a strong born again child of God who was the scripture
union leader in my school then. As God will have it I always attend early morning mass in the St
Charles catholic church in my home town just to please my mum by 8 am I will be on my way to
the Assemblies of God church so that a sound word of God that comes out as a hammer will hit
me, my mum started calling me church prostitute, my cousins all attended the church together
with that parents that is Assemblies of God. I heard that my Grandparents were members’ too
so she could not stop me but she was not happy.
One day my mum also had a problem in the Roman Catholic church because my Dad had changed
church to worship with the seventh day Adventist church while this was going on, one Rev Peter
Ejeshi who left the Assemblies of God church in Calabar based on God’s calling started a branch
of his new church in Warri Delta state before coming back to Obudu to establish, my Mum now
called me to go and worship with him and check if he is doing the right thing so that she can
leave the catholic and join him, I went and came back and told her that the man of God is
preaching the sound word of God she can go, that was how all members of the family except my
Dad decided to join the living word outreach ministries where we were all disciple. All these took
place between early 1990 – 1992 and we became established members and the first fruits of that
church.
In the year 1996 when I left the federal college of education and proceeded to Calabar in 1997
to do direct entry for a degree programme in Calabar in Cross River state I decided to worship
with the Assemblies of God church in state housing estate however because of some problems
in the church and I moved to worship in Redeem Christian church of God in Jahas hotel called the
garden of joy parish,i became committed to the church and even attended convention in Lagos
in the first auditorium. I was not interested in titles or position, when I came for youth service in
Abuja in 2000 I continued worshipping with RCCG but devoted to NCCF that is Nigerian Christian
Coppers fellowship, after the youth service I was moving to Kubwa and Kuje and later got a job
in Kuje and got married in December 9th 2006, I have done bible school in 2004 I was made
minister by pastor Sule Paul and posted me to pastor the teens when pastor Sule was transferred
pastor Adeleye came and posted me to Alleluia palace parish in Ajiyah Zara area though the
parish suffered accommodation problem and was brought back to my residence before I was able
to raise about 100,000 and meet with the zonal pastor who added money and we acquired that
piece of land and construction began I was then posted back to the teens church after he was
transferred pastor Afolabi came and posted me to Shadadi where I started New Cruse parish and
was finally asked by God in October 2016 to leave RCCG and start my ministry called INNER
HOUSE CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY where my wife and I are pioneering now.