Today we will be talking to a Nigerian family who were childless for 21 years of their marriage to learn from their journey before they finally gave birth to their son and twin daughters two years later.
Please, can you introduce yourselves?
I am Mrs. Patience Welekwe and my husband is Prince ChukwukereWelekwe. We are from both from Rivers State, Ubima and Ikwerre respectively.
When did you get married?
We got married on February 24th 1990, with the hope of getting married and giving birth to children immediately because my husband was just the only child of his parents, but it did not work out the way we thought.
Mrs. Patience, please tell us about the early days of your marriage and everthing that transpired before you finally had a child
When we got married the first year passed. The second year and third year passed, we were worried because we don’t really know what was happening. So after the second year of our marriage and nothing was happening, we started the movement of treatment.
I went to one or two places to see whether anything was wrong with me, I moved to so many places, there is no place I didn’t put my leg, then I was an unbeliever, I didn’t know Christ. I was going from churches to churches, even white garment churches, there was no place I couldn’t put my leg but it didn’t work out. It was so bad to the extent that a family relation said she will take us to somewhere that will really work out fast. She took us to the place not knowing it was a native doctor, but to someone who is looking for something, there is no place you would not put your leg.
When we got there, the man started his treatment. He did all the incantations and concoctions but all to no avail. It was not a period of happiness so we were moving from one place to another, one hospital to another, even to the extent of me going from here (Port Harcourt) to Owerri Imo State, every Saturday for treatment, and as you go, that is how you will be paying huge amount of money for your drugs, etc.
There is a place I went to at Aba, the doctor was like “Madam you need about 50+ injections to flush out the womb “, I said OK! Somebody that is looking for something will always accept any offer. The injection I took was up to 80+ because every week I go there, they give me 10 injections for flushing the womb. I was taking that injection till I had an abscess on my right leg.
When I saw that it was not really working out, I started looking for God. When I started searching for God, people took us to different churches and in all the places we got to, nothing happened. Until 2001 a friend introduced us to Old Time Faith Ministries.
How did you feel, were you scare or felt unsafe at any time?
Just like every other woman who is going through such a situation, I was really scared. I don’t know if as my husband is going out, he will come in with another woman telling me to pack my load. I have gotten someone that is pregnant for me, you have been here for quite a number of years, have not seen anything, I cannot be living with my fellow man, that fear of the unknown is always there.
Our going To Old Time Ministries was not even for child bearing, we went there because of another thing. So, when we got there, we told the general overseer (Pastor Walter Zach) why we came. When he saw that what we actually came for has been resolved, he asked us if we had children? We now answered No. He told us that is the most important one, he said what we came here for is not even important. In his words, “in life if someone who doesn’t have a child, the person is nothing to write home about”. He asked us to keep the problem that brought us to him aside and he decided to take us up on deliverance, so as to know why we don’t have children.
What was really wrong with you medically?
All I was hearing before now was that my fallopian tube was blocked. I have a special doctor, doctor Audu, a family of my husband who started from the beginning, he is a consultant with military hospital. He started from A, the kind of tests, from head to nose every part of the body but it was still the same thing.
They said one of the fallopian tubes was blocked. Every three months, I was going for flushing of the womb which was very painful. It is not that you are going there to pay one naira, its real amount of money. With all the flushing still, nothing worked out.
I started having hotness of the womb as a result of the flushing, my womb will be very hot, I cannot even move around, very hot and painful still nothing came out. As an African, and a Nigerian, if you do not have a baby for a certain number of years imagine mine for 21 years, it wasn’t an easy one actually.
When you finally became pregnant, what was your reaction?
When I became pregnant, I did not even know I was pregnant. Not that I was not really getting pregnant before now; I will be pregnant and it will flush out, even at six months. The last one was six months. I don’t know what happened. The pregnancy started drying up until the stomach became flat. We were wondering what could be the problem, that was before we met daddy (pastor Walter Zach). How can someone be pregnant and the thing will just dry up? We took it as one of those things, we did not know we’re really fighting powers.
When I got pregnant for him (Chikabe), I didn’t know because three month I was still seeing my period until the fourth month when I started feeling somehow. I went to my doctor and he said I should run a test which I did and the result said, I was positive. I said how can it be positive; somebody is seeing menses and you are telling me positive; it is not possible. The fifth month, the menstrual flow stopped final.
Mr. Chukwukere, tell us how the experience was for you as a man
People said so many hurtful things, my relations, my brothers, my sisters, they have said so many disgusting things to my wife even the day my father died.
I got married at a very young age because I was the only child of my mum. She actually encouraged me to marry early in my twenties, and that I did. When we got married, both of us were very young. After the marriage, nothing came forth as in having children, though my mother wasn’t that worried.
You know what it is in Africa, you have a mother, you married a girl and after 1-5 years she doesn’t have children, your parents will become worried. My mum encouraged me. She said my wife will bear children; I should not be discouraged. I have never forgotten that encouragement from my mother. She is of the blessed memory; she is late now. She died when we were 10 years in marriage and still without a child.
Eleven (11) years after her death, we finally had our first son which is this young man Chiakabi. That was the name we gave him. Initially we were thinking the source of our barrenness was a medical problem so we did all the medical tests, we had all the medical treatments.
At what point did you discover your predicament was not medical?
The doctors were saying she is free to give birth but nothing. When we came to Old Time Faith Ministries in 2001, that was when we knew the problem was not a medical problem but a spiritual problem. In cause of deliverance, a lot of things were revealed to us. People who were after our having children, they were the ones responsible: from my family and from her family as well. When we understood it was a spiritual matter, we stopped going to the hospital because already we were tired.
The pastor took it upon himself to conduct deliverance for us, that was the first time I was having deliverance prayers from a pastor without his telling us to buy this or that, bring money for this or that. He only prayed for us in the name of Jesus Christ and in the year 2011, which was the year our marriage became 21 years, and God blessed us with Chikabe, our first son. We named him Chikabe which means “God has the final say”. And when He says that, no man can thwart it.
How long did it take for the twins to come after your first baby?
It was through deliverance and prayers that the pastor did that this baby came forth and two years after that we had the twin girls. The first one is Sobulachi and the second one is Maruchi. Sobulachi means, “if not for God”, Maruchi means “you should know God “. We gave them names based on the circumstances they were born.
Why did you decide to settle at Old Time Faith Ministries?
When we came here, we saw that there was difference between church and churches. I thank God to have used him to actually give us deliverance. When I had a land dispute which was the main reason that brought me to meet the man of God, it was someone in my former church with me that brought me to Old Time Faith.
God actually did something through his servant Pastor Walter Zach. To tell you the truth, it was not an easy road. It is not every man that will say yes, my wife has not had baby for 21 years and he will continue to be with her, it was the grace of God. It was when we came to this church, we had our repentance. Other churches we were going to, we go and we still drink, do anything we want to do and on Sunday we still go back to church.
How did pastor Walter Find out you didn’t have children?
When we came, I told the pastor my problem, he came to understand we have never had children, he abandoned the other issues. He went ahead with the prayer for child bearing and God answered those prayers and today we are happy to tell the world that God has blessed us with three children.
Did you attend special prayer sessions, body works, do assignments and all those other fetish stuffs?
Pastor Walter does not run a prayer house. Old Time Faith Ministries is a church that stands on holiness and purity so he does not engage in fetish stuffs, neither did we carry out any special anything, we didn’t even pay money to the pastor. We just attended church and believed in the Word of God.
However, MIRACLE BABIES FOR EXPECTANT COUPLES was a powerful programme, it is a programme specifically for couples looking for children and it yields results for those expecting children. If you are an expectant couple or you know anyone, I’ll advise you to attend this programme.
Another edition is coming up on Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th November, 2023. If you really want God to answer you, to do a miracle in your life, to give you children like he did for us, then attend this programme. Why am I emphasizing this? It’s because we were attending the programme until God did what he did in my life.
Where did your wife deliver?
We had our children at UPTH (University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital). When she was pregnant, we registered at three places including the UPTH, added to that fact that she is a staff of the UPTH and most of the people who have also treated her were consultant gynecologist, renowned professors in the field. We preferred to go to that place, so they can pay more attention and as a staff of the university and so we can get what we want.
What’s your advice to those going through what you went through?
My advice is they should focus on God because with God all things are possible. There is nothing God will not do for us if we pay attention to him.
In a family where they are looking for a child, the husband should not always suspect the wife alone, he should also think if he is the cause of the problem or if it’s coming from his wife because when such happens, they blame it on the woman.
They always say “she refused to get pregnant “, but they forget that the man can also have problem. So, both of them should always work hand in hand, go to the clinic, find out what the problem is, pray together and God will answer them.
Lastly, there’s a saying that when you see the light, you should show it to your brother. We want to encourage everyone reading this testimony of ours to follow pastor Walter O. Zach on his social media, join his weekly prayer meetings titled Hour Of Deliverance which is being aired every Monday to Wednesday by 9pm – 10pm. Attend the programmes of the church online or physical, that’s if the church is close to you. If you do these, your testimony will be in your hands before you know it.
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