Mike Bamiloye, while celebrating their 28-year-old marriage on October 8, revealed that it was born out of raw faith in God.
He recalled, “I remember it was my best man
who bought my wedding suit and shirt. May God bless him wherever he is now. It
was my sister-in-law who bought the shoes I wore on my wedding day. It was a
ministry member who gave us money to sow the wedding gown, because we had
already gone to a place where we could rent the wedding gown. It was the money
my sister-in-law sent to us I used to deposit for the seats in our living room.
“It was my Mama-Sister, (my elder sister) who got the 3-Room-Flat we married into. She paid the first year rent. May the Lord ever bless MUMMY Felicia Adesiyan. It was my another elder sister who got the Boys Bridgade that played for us as we were driving into the reception place at Ilesha Grammar School, in a car that belonged to one of my cousins.
“I remember all the monetary gifts given to us on the wedding day were used to pay some outstanding debts incurred on ministry printings we made before the wedding and some debts on the wedding programmes. So three days after the wedding, we had no money again and the idea of honeymoon never even crossed our minds, because there was no money to attempt such luxury.”
Mike
Bamiloye, an actor, who founded Mount Zion Film Productions International, is
married to Gloria. In this interview, he was asked how he met his pretty wife
and he said, “We met in 1983 after I graduated from the College of Education in
Ilesha. It was that year that she came into the school. I used to come to the
campus to help the Christian Fellowship drama group. It was on one of my visits
that I saw her.
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| The wedding picture 28 years ago |
What was the attraction?
He responded, “The lord is the
attraction. I knew it was the will of God. We didn’t just start talking because
of marriage. We had already been working together in the Christian Fellowship.
I was the drama director and she was a member of the Christian Fellowship. We
had known for some time before the Lord led me to her.
For Gloria, Mike was “very humble
and simple. Nothing really attracted me more than the fact that he love and had
the fear of God in him,” she said.
Describing
each other, Mike said, “Gloria is a woman of faith and prayer, with great
understanding. She is hardworking and relates with people better than I do. She
is sociable.”
The wife, who is also an actress,
said of her husband, “He likes to do the right things, and he loves God. He is
always ready to say sorry. He doesn’t like to hurt people’s feelings. If he
hurts you and realises, he will apologise. He has his ego as a man, but he is
very humble.
With the
union producing three children who are also into ministry, counting
their blessings, Mike said: “Our marriage has produced great
ministers. Our children also are in the ministry, my first son is a drama
producer and director of Christian movies also, my second son is into music and
our third child is a scriptwriter. The marriage has been fantastic. It has been
very good. It has been highly productive and successful, and has given birth to
many fruits.”
For Gloria, “It has been very
wonderful and beautiful, because we got it right from the initial stage. I
thank God because I have been enjoying the benefits. That is why I advise
singles to seek God’s face and pray for the right person.”
Has there
been any quarrel? So, how do they settle differences?
Mike said, “There will always be misunderstanding
in marriages. When you get married to an intelligent person, the person will
continually reason. Once in a while, there has been disagreement in principles,
but we always come together to agree. When there is a disagreement, one party
approaches the other, depending whoever sees reasons first. There is always an
agreement when there is a disagreement. We work together and sometimes we
disagree during film productions but at the end of the day we still have to
reach an agreement.”
Corroborating Gloria said, “We are
children of God, and we cannot sleep without forgiving each other. I do not
want to miss rapture. We were able to cope because we fear God. The fear of God
sustained our marriage. Marriage is a ministry unto God. When we have that in
mind, it would be easy to work together, respect each other and to adjust
ourselves.”
Asked if
they operate a joint account and Mike said, “We use the same
back account and we are both signatories to it. It is the major family
account. But we still have separate bank accounts.”
For the
duo, spending time together as couple means travelling together while on the
jib and “We also spend time together with the children. We always have time
for each other.”
What pet
names do they call each other? Mike said, “She calls me Brother Mike. She calls me that
because that was what she used to call me when we were in the fellowship before
we got married. Even the children call me Brother Mike sometimes. Other ministers
get surprised when she calls me Brother Mike. I call her Mummy Daniel.”
Gloria said, “I have tried
sometimes to stop calling him Brother Mike, but I couldn’t.”
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