Who is David Oyedepo?
- Born on September 27th, 1954. He began his academic career in Architecture and later went on to obtain a PhD in Human Development, from Honolulu University Hawaii, USA. - Born again – Feb. 19, 1969, at 15 - Received a called to full time ministry – May 2, 1981 at 26 - Began his teaching ministry through a weekly fellowship meeting called ‘Faith Liberation Hour’ and a monthly seminal that covers Friday evening – May 29, 1981 - Began his Church ministry and planted the 1st Church in Kaduna, called, Living Faith World Outreach – Dec. 11, 1983 - Published and released his first 2 books. ‘The Miracle seed and the law of Faith’ – April 25, 1985 - Founded the Word of Faith Bible Institute, which today runs across many nations of the world – Sep. 1: 1986 - Began church planting work in the northern part of Nigeria – May 1987 - His mission acquired a 13-acre property in a prime area of Kaduna city called Garden of Faith – Sep. 1989 - Moved into Lagos, following a divine mandate, “Arise get down to Lagos and raise me a people” – Sep. 24,1989 - Founded Dominion Publishing House, whose printing press has today grown to an industrial scale and currently publishing Bibles – July 1992- Led a great revival at the Lagos church that took the church from about 3,500 to 50,000 within 5 years – 1994-1999 - Following another divine mandate “the harvest of Africa is overripe, rush in and preserve it from decadence, embarked on Mission to Africa. Today, his mission now has a strong presence in over 41 nations of Africa – Jan. 1994 - His Mission took delivery of the first mission aircraft – Sept. 18, 1996 - His mission acquired 530 acres of property in the outskirts of Ota, a suburb of Lagos which is today called Canaanland – May 1998 - 50,000-seat capacity sanctuary called Faith Tabernacle, was built and dedicated within one year to the glory – Sept. 1998 – Sept. 1999 - Started the annual convocation of Winners worldwide, tagged “Shiloh” which now transmits to about 177 nations real time and draws delegates from between 50 and 60 nations annually, with millions gathering at various viewing centers across Nigeria and many other nations of the world – 1999 - Embarked on Mission to the world, covering Europe, North and South America, Asia, Australia and Middle East. – August 2000 - Founded Covenant University, which is today listed among the Elite Universities of the world – October 2002- Founded Landmark University, a university blazing the trail today within the Nigerian university education space – Mar. 2011- Led a great church growth revival that doubled the attendance of the Lagos church twice within 6 months. Today, the Faith Tabernacle is said to be the largest local church congregation in the world, which runs four services every Sunday with about 38,000 Home cells – May – Oct. 2015- By divine instruction, led the planting of over 5,000 churches across Nigeria within one year – 2019- By divine signal, led the planting of over 10,000 churches within one year across Nigeria and over 1,200 others across 35 other nations of the world in spite of the restriction by the global lockdown occasioned by covid-19 pandemic. – 2020 - By divine instruction, led the replication of over 21,000 new home cells within one year at Faith Tabernacle, which represents about a hundred percent of the existing home cells – 2021- Led the planting of Churches in 80 additional nations across 4 continents of the world – 2022- Today the construction of the historic 100,000-seat capacity stadium-like sanctuary, whose foundation was laid on March 25, 2021, is very much in progress, with God’s hand clearly evident in the areas of speed, supplies, etc. To God alone be all the glory.