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 (yahoo.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 the church name with Ibadan and with Nigeria, and found only one real trace: a LinkedIn profile for Bayo Olayiwola, listed as Prophet at Bethel-land Prayer Mountain since July 2020 in Ibadan, Ona-Ara, Oyo State, describing pastoral and missionary work, together with a background in social work from the University of Ibadan. The same details are simply copied onto a contact-data site (RocketReach), which repeats that he is currently a Prophet at Bethel-land Prayer Mountain in Ibadan, so it is not independent confirmation. We found no church website, no Facebook page, no Nigerian church directory or denomination register entry, no map listing and no news coverage under this name. Warning: the only footprint is one person's job entry on a career profile, which can mean the name is so far a personal ministry brand rather than a documented congregation; we found no scam or fraud reports.
Our conclusion: An independent search found a LinkedIn profile for Bayo Olayiwola describing him as Prophet at Bethel-land Prayer Mountain in Ibadan, Ona-Ara, Oyo State since July 2020, which matches the name, the person and the city given at signup. However, that profile and a contact-data site repeating it are the only traces we could find: there is no church page, directory entry, map listing or any sign of a gathered congregation, so it is possible this is 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.