Even though I was naturally born into a solid Christian centered family of devoted Christian parents, I first consciously accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior in August 1964, but no sooner than two years thereafter, I completely left my understanding of what is was to be a child of God. Of course, my said first experience was when I was very tender in age, though conscious of my bearings.
I consciously found my way back to Christ after a well deserved beaten by the devil out of a frustrated life style. I re-confess my faith in Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior in April 1984, almost twenty years later and have since, (I pray he will uphold me), remain consciously and actively clink to Him till I die or till His second return. This happened during my last year in the great University of Ife where I studied and graduated from the faculty of law.
It was there that after I became a born again child of the living God that I joined the fellowship of the Evangelical Christian Union (ECU) and worshiped at Bethel CAC Church just outside the university campus but actually serving the university community.
I became a committed member of the New Estate Baptist Church and fellowship group, Adisa Basua, Surulere, Lagos during my postgraduate Law school years and my short brief practice of law.
I thereafter, left Lagos for Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria to continue my practice and immediately began fellowshipping with the Oritamefa Gospel Group/Oritamefa Baptist Church and was a member of the Prayer band of the Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship which then met at the Premiere Hotel and was the proconsul of those that later grew up in Oyo, Ogun, and the then Ondo States.
I never knew what great impart and depth of understanding and knowledge of the word and operation of Gods ways we were then being exposed to until my first trip out of Nigeria to Canada in the spring of 1987 on a scholarship. On my arrival in Kingston, Ontario province of Canada, I quickly identified with a Christian group in a village called Apsley where I functioned both in an Anglican Church and a Christian summer camp called Camp Kimonoya; an Indian word for Renewal. I was the Christian resident counselor in the camp throughout the summer of that year as well as the leader in the town church. It was this exposure to applying the word of God and teaching of it as well as leading men and women in the things of God that my humble eyes became open to the wonderful work of God in the life of any of His willing children.
I later left there and arrived in the capital of the country, Ottawa and sought out a church by the leading of the spirit of God to worship and be used of Him there. I became a regular at the East Alliance Church on Montreal Road, Ottawa Canada and God lead me to serve within the youth group there which was more or less a social group engaged only in having picnics, cookout, barbecues and the like with very minimal Christian focus. This was definitely alien to me and immediately God began to use me to challenge and encourage the members in serious Bible Study program, prayer meetings both during the week ends and in some couples of hours on Friday evenings. The group became so spiritually strong and relevant within the church family within couples of months to the admiration and excitement of the Lead Pastor and indeed, every member of the church. It was a tremendous turn around for the church and God was glorified in our midst. It was a sad day, when I had to leave at the end of my program for a return trip to Nigeria.
I returned to my legal practice and fellowshipped in Ibadan until December 1989 when I again left the shore of Nigeria to United Kingdom and began serving under the then Bishop Gbenga David of blessed memory at the Christ Family ministries in Brixton, south London as the Assistant pastor in charge of prayer and follow-up and visitation.
I was then invited by the leading of the Holy Spirit by a good friend of mine, with whom we have known and fellowship together at the Oritamefa Gospel Group, to come over to “Macedonian” (those are his words), and help in the then only Redeemed Christian Church of God church in the whole of UK and for that matter the whole of Europe. It was there that the Lord God used me as the Youth Pastor (assistant Pastor) in the church. It is a wonderful reflection when one thinks that since I was a single person, my residence in Hurdle Promenade, Peckham in South West London was always a beehive of Christian activities, of music rehearsal and prayer meetings. For one, we were renting an old Anglican church of England building that we were not allowed to use during the week and for another I was living in the center of the catchment of most of our members who were then within the Central and southwest area of London, England.
I left England for the Netherlands (Holland) in the thick of winter (December 1993) to join my wife who had arrived there earlier in November as an EU scholar to do her research for her Doctoral program in Electrical Engineering.
I found myself idle and decided to enroll and study for my Masters in Theology at the famous Tyndale Theological Seminary and earn that degree in summer 1995 just before we arrived the United States of America.
While in the Netherlands, however, the Lord lead my wife and I we began serving within the Christian International Church in Delft as the resident pastor. This was a Christian fellowship of mostly foreign Christian students, diplomats, etc from many countries of the world living within The Hague, Rotterdam and the Delft area of central Holland. How our God worked it out to serve Him within His people would remain a blessed memory for me and my wife. In short, the Dutch pastor, said God instructed him on our arrival there to go on mission work to the then just opened door for ministries following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and that he felt lead to ask us to steep in where he would be away to lead the church in all its program. It was wonderful and I continually praise and thank God for the legacy of God tremendous work through us and others for two years in that field. But we have to leave because, we never had the leading of the Spirit to tabernacle there as our final sojourn. We arrived, New York in June 15, 1995 and almost immediately relocated to Waldorf, Maryland two days later.
Of course, as usual we sought the leading of our God and found a home church at Calvary Gospel Church on Berry Road, Waldorf and the Lord opened a door to serve as the Prayer Minister in the then almost entirely white dominated church. My wife served in the choir and the children ministry and God indeed, blessed His work tremendously there. We served there for almost four years even after we had moved out of Waldorf, first to Forestville and then to Beltsville, both in Maryland.
In the time being, I registered and completed my Doctorate degree in World religion and Evangelism from Florida Pastoral and Theological Seminary.
We were lead to establish, incorporate and ran Living The Word of God Ministries, in late 1998. I had meanwhile, earned my Masters in International Law at the Washington College of Law, American University and had started working mostly among our African community. We later incorporated a church arm to the ministry called NewLife Celebration Church but later merged that arm with a new church and left full time church activities and focused mainly on ministry work.
We then started worshiping at the Heritage Community Church in Servern, Maryland when we moved to Glen Burnie, in the Ann Arundel County. We were not able to function as we would have loved to; I guess that door of opportunity was not opened to us and eventually we sought the leading of God and are now serving Him within the body of Christ in Dunamis Life Chapel in Burtonsville, Maryland.
I found myself returning to academic studies at University of Baltimore Law School where I am currently a graduate professional Tax Law student, with a second Masters in Law degree. Reasons, apart from the fact that apparently, I enjoy studying, I had intensified my law practice but this time in the taxation area and discovered that I would do well by getting myself more adequately knowledgeable and better prepared to serve the body of Christ both within the Church framework and its members in the area of tax exempt matters for the church and individual and business tax and for those who might be facing the draconian effect of taxation audit by the pernicious Internal Revenue Service (IRS). I keep on finding satisfaction and delight in being in a position to be a blessing to the body of Christ and to its members. To the glory of our God, it is already on record that within the DVM area of Washington, Virginia and Maryland metropolis, I have been instrumental to the incorporation and tax exempt status of many countless number of churches, ministries as well as tax preparation, tax resolutions and representation before the IRS.
It was around summer last year; 2015 that I was invited by the distinguished executive board of directors of Kingdom Way International College of Bishops & Apostles to take up the onerous responsibility of the first Executive Secretary of this august body of Christ. It is with great humility, joy and great sense of responsibility and awe that I therefore answer to this great call of duty to our God and His Christ. I can only pray and work as diligently as our God will give me the wisdom, strength and grace to serve Him within this body of Christ with the needed height of excellence and grace so that the real effect of this College will impart the life of His church here in America and all over the world.
