About Pastor Bayo' Ministry

“The Word through the Internet” (popularly known as “Spiritual Digest”) is an online ministry. Its goal is to

REACH AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE ALL OVER THE WORLD WITH THE WORD OF GOD THROUGH THE INTERNET.

It is a ministry whereby devotional messages are sent to people by email. The first message was sent to about 50 people on February 18, 2003. Since then, the number of people that receive the messages every week has grown into thousands. Presently, these messages are sent in English and Esperanto languages once in a week mainly through web group services like Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Google, Facebook and others that offer free email group service on the Web. Apart from personal groups created in these services for sending the weekly messages to people, I belong to over four hundred other groups where I do send the messages to members of the groups. My main Yahoo groups in English are Spiritual Digest Group and TheWordThrutheNet Group, and that of Esperanto is SprirtaNutrajxo Esperanto Group. Also these weekly messages are sent to many Internet forums and weblogs. My main weblog is TheWordThrutheNet.

Another aspect of the ministry is sending daily quotes from the Bible and other respected Christians and, at times, prayer wishes through Yahoo Messenger online/offline instant message to people in my Yahoo Messenger list. This has made the ministry to be a blessing to over seven hundred people in the list. You can join my list by inviting me to you Yahoo Messenger list. The Yahoo ID I use for this is “spiritualdigest”.

The above aspect has led to the creation of another Yahoo group where such inspiring quotes/prayer wishes are sent to people everyday by email. The group is Spiritual Digest Daily Group. There is also a WEBLOG created for the daily quotes.

Furthermore, another aspect of the ministry is sending of periodic inspiring quotes/prayer wishes to people by SMS. There is a WEBLOG created for the collections of all these text messages (SMS) I have been sending to people. You can be part of this by sending your mobile phone number (including country code) to me.

My determination to use the Internet to minister to people throughout the world also makes me to be identifying with people in my online ministry by rejoicing with them praying for them and sending them prayer wishes through email/e-card and SMS. I tag this aspect of the ministry “Special Days Ministry.” You also can be part of this aspect. Just let me know your special days—birthday, wedding anniversary, the day you become born again, and other eventful days in your life that you will like me to remember you. Send your full names, email address and mobile phone numbers (include country code if not Nigeria) to me at spiritualdigest@yahoo.com.

Most of these aspects are now being done through Facebook.com. Join him at his Facebook to be part of the ministry there.

Reactions of people to my messages have made me become a prayer partner and counselor to many people as they share their challenges with me. These have made me active online everyday as I respond to people’s reactions, prayer requests and challenges by email, offline/online messages and SMS. At times, I engage in telephone conversations to do these.

GOD BLESS YOU!

About Pastor Bayo

Gabriel Adebayo Olayinka Afolaranmi (simply known as “Pastor Bayo Afolaranmi”) was born into the family of Chief Hezekiah Afolaranmi and Mrs. Hanah Abiola Afolaranmi in the year 1970. He became born again on March 2, 1991.

He attended Omu-Aran High School, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria for his secondary education between 1983 and 1987. He had his Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) (Yoruba/Christian Religious Studies) at Federal College of Education, Okene, Nigeria between 1990 and 1993. For his theological training, Pastor Bayo attended ECWA Theological Seminary, Igbaja, Nigeria between 1995 and 1997 where he was awarded Bachelor of Religious Education, and the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso, Nigeria between 1998 and 1999 where he was awarded Special Ministerial Certificate (at degree level) and between 2007 and 2009 for Master of Theology in Religious Education.

Pastor Bayo was ordained into the full gospel ministry of the Nigerian Baptist Convention on August 18, 2002. He works in the headquarters of the Convention in Ibadan, Nigeria. He has been ministering to thousands of people through various aspects of the Internet since 2003.

His experience in Internet ministry has made him publish a book titled Ministering through the Internet: An Essential Guide. Apart from this publication, Pastor Bayo has published another book titled Saved Forever? A Systematized Biblical Teaching on Salvation and many other articles in The Nigerian Baptist, the official organ of the Nigerian Baptist Convention and some magazines in Esperanto language especially Dia Regno (that is, Divine Kingdom: the official organ of Kristanaj Esperantistoj Ligo Internacia [KELI] [Christian Esperantists League International]).

He is married to Florence Opeyemi Olufemi (Nee Adeniyi). They are blessed with a son, Victor Boluwatife, a daughter, Victoria IfeOluwa, and two other adopted children - Michael Oluwasegun Adeniyi and Abraham Oluwatoyin Adeniyi.

He is a native of Pamo-Isin, Kwara State, Nigeria, though he resides with his family at Akobo, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Postal Address: Pastor Adebayo Afolaranmi,

Baptist Building, Oke Bola,

PMB 5113, Ibadan 200001,

Oyo State, Nigeria.

Mobile Phone Numbers:

+234 805 515 9591

+234 816 304 5450

Email: spiritualdigest@yahoo.com

To know more about him, visit his Facebook.

Also visit and become a follower of his main Blog.

God bless you!

"I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. FOR TO ME, TO LIVE IS CHRIST AND TO DIE IS GAIN" (Philippians 1:20-21, NIV).