Pastors Jerome & Ruth Anekwe
Dr Jerome Anekwe has been part of the Eldership team of El-Shaddai International Christian Centre in Bradford, with Pastors Ramson & Linda Mumba.
Born in Nigeria, Dr Anekwe came to the UK as a child of 2 years and spent all of his formative years in London. Brought up as a Catholic, Dr Anekwe tried to know God personally and was left wondering if God really existed at all. Finally, Dr Anekwe was privileged to attend a Billy Graham Evangelistic crusade and he gave his life to Christ as a teenager, aged 17. He was soon baptised in water and filled with the Holy Spirit.
In 1991, Dr Anekwe went to Bradford University to do his first degree in Pharmacy. During this time Dr Jerome met his future wife, Ruth, Dr Ramson and Pastor Linda Mumba. God supernaturally joined their hearts together and they started spending time every week in prayer. All four of them knew that God had touched their lives with a mandate to reach their generation with the uncompromised Word of God.
In 1996 after working for sometime as a Pharmacist, Dr Anekwe went back to Bradford University to do a PhD in Pharmaceutical Technology, which he completed in 1999. Since then he has gone on to set up his own pharmacy and property business in Leeds.
Pastor Ruth, originally from London, became born again whilst at University in Birmingham, where she obtained her first degree in Media and Cultural Studies.
In 1993 Pastor Ruth moved to Bradford to work as campaign co-ordinator for a relief and development charity. The next year she founded and managed the fair-trade café project on the campus of Bradford University in order to champion the message of fair trade and social justice for developing nations.
After becoming a part of El-Shaddai International Christian Centre, Pastor Ruth’s life was impacted by the anointing that is on Dr Ramson and Pastor Linda’s ministry and she received new revelations from the Word of God that brought great victory and prosperity into her life.
In 1998 Ruth also completed her PG diploma in Bi-Media Journalism from the University of Leeds. She then worked successfully in radio journalism at the BBC before working as a researcher and associate producer for independent television companies producing documentaries for Channel 4 and ITV.
Ruth then worked as the North East Regional Volunteer Manager for Tearfund – Britain’s largest evangelical Christian relief and development agency, after which Pastor Ruth went into full-time ministry with her husband, Dr Anekwe.
