New Life Research Foundation is a Vision that came in 2013 and submitting it to his discipler, Pastor Dr. Ezekiel Hanior, Pastor Hanior prophesied in 2013 that this vision would transcend denominational boundaries and have a global impact beyond the confines of a church building. He offered prayers for its manifestation in due time. During the protracted 6-month Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike in Nigeria, the Visionary (Joseph Luper Tsenum) spent the six-month strike seeking the Lord to discover his purpose for living. It was then that he read a book written by Bro. Gbile Akanni titled ‘The Journey into Your Vision’. This brought insight to him and the subsequent vision to form New Life Research to mobilize God’s children in and into different nations for revival using academics, research, and scholarships. It is worthy of note that this name New Life Research was received in 2013 as well. New Life Research Foundation is for those who have this new life in Christ and those who will come to have this new life in Christ whom the Lord will be using in different nations for revival using academics and research. Jer. 1:1-19, 51:20-24 is the anchor scripture for New Life Research Foundation as the Lord promised to use anyone He wills to bring down revival in the nations.

On October 23, 2017, the Lord came again speaking to our brother on the need to start taking the ‘initiation step’ into the nations. He created a page on Facebook on that day and called a few brethren together whom they prayed and started the work. While few people believed in the Vision, some did not believe in it from the onset (probably because it was a mustard seed and himself was not yet into the nations he spoke to them about). In the same 2017, few members he was working with got scholarships and traveled to Europe while he was still in Nigeria.

After applying for a scholarship in Europe in 2018 and securing it in 2019, he traveled to Russia for his Masters program and by then, more people believed in the Vision (The mustard seed NELIREF). New Life Research Foundation was formally launched on November 22, 2019.

The mustard seed ‘NELIREF’ was incorporated in Nigeria as a Christian Academic/Research non-profit organization on March 2, 2022 and in Georgia, United States on May 17, 2023.

New Life Research Foundation now has more than 15, 000 followers on social media platforms. Under this time, 100s of NELIREF members secured scholarships in different nations. New Life Research Foundation have conducted programs such as Pioneer Research Cohort, Trainings, Annual Conference, Scholarship Webinars, Social Media Evangelism, Follow-up & Discipleship, Mission Challenge & Scholars’ Interaction, Accelerated Mentorship Program for First Class and Distinction Undergraduate and Graduate Applicants, and NELIREF Connect in different parts of the world. Together with its partners such as The United Pentecostal Church (UPCI), Adullam Calvary Mission, Makurdi Christian Youth Summit, Ngunan Addingi Mentorship Program, The Moscow Goodnews Church and other research labs in North America, NELIREF is dedicated to counseling and mentoring its members to become sharp arrows in God’s quiver in the nations.

Indeed, the Lord can use anything, the mustard seed NELIREF is set to become a big umbrella where both believers in Jesus and unbelievers can come to drink from the living water and discover their purpose for living.

Recent advances in research, wherein scientists formulate hypotheses and meticulously derive conclusive results, have elevated humanity above other species. The standard of living has exhibited a consistent upward trajectory across successive centuries. The advent of the scientific and technological revolution has yielded therapeutic interventions for once deemed incurable ailments. Additionally, domains encompassing habitation, transportation, agricultural breeding, sustainable energy, telecommunications, electronics, among others, have experienced substantial advancements in the 21st century.

In the preceding decade, the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has wrought transformative effects on fields including medicine, healthcare, agriculture, communication, marketing, speech recognition, and autonomous vehicular systems, among numerous others. Notably, the introduction of DeepMind's AlphaFold has demonstrated AI's prowess in addressing one of the most formidable challenges in human tasks: protein structure prediction. Within the realm of AI, key branches include Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Machine learning, in turn, is bifurcated into supervised learning (e.g., Random Forest, XGBoost, Support Vector Machines) and unsupervised learning (e.g., clustering, principal component analysis) and Deep Learning (e.g., neural networks, convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks).

While strides in NLP have successfully extracted meaning from vast text datasets, the emergence of Transformers and Transfer Learning portends even greater achievements in the ensuing decade. Innovations such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) hold significant promise across diverse sectors, including the domains of medicine and healthcare.

To comprehend the intricacies of algorithms and elucidate the workings of 'Black Box' models, there is an imperative for the development and adoption of Explainable and Interpretable AI/ML methodologies, exemplified by techniques like LIME, SHAP, Anchors, and other novel approaches. Given the present state of most ML models, achieving a statistically sound interpretation of each feature's contribution to the model remains a formidable challenge, exacerbated by the inherent complexity of these algorithms, which presents a substantial barrier to comprehending and interpreting such models.