Church Verification Report
What we checked
- Not a duplicate: no similarly named church is listed with us
- The name reads as a real congregation
- Contact email reviewed (gmail.com, common for small churches)
- No website or social page was provided
- Independent web search performed: see the findings on the right
What we found
We searched for "New Vision Ministries" together with Addis Ababa and Ethiopia and found no directory entry, map listing, Facebook page, denomination register or news article for a congregation of that name in Addis Ababa; the many "New Vision Ministries" results belong to churches in the United States, the Bahamas and Trinidad. The closest match is a differently named work, New Vision Church Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, led by Ethiopian nationals Pastor Solomon and his wife, established in 2023, described on a United States church's missions page (newvision.city), which we cannot link to this applicant. A Faith.network church listing shows a "New vision ministries" under Benin, not Ethiopia, so the country given here does not match that record. We found no scam reports, complaints or fraud warnings, and the free Gmail contact address returned nothing. The findings are summarized here for space; the full research was weighed in the review.
Our conclusion: No website or social page was provided, and an independent search found no directory listing, map entry or news mention for a congregation called New Vision Ministries in Addis Ababa; the similarly named New Vision Church Ethiopia led by Pastor Solomon could not be linked to this applicant. The name, the city and the named pastor are all plausible for a small Ethiopian congregation, and no warning signs of fraud or of another religion appeared, s
We have asked this church for one piece of extra evidence: a photo, a link, its denomination, or a church that can vouch for it. The moment we can verify, this report is upgraded. Without a response, the listing is paused after 14 days.