Taiwo odukoya biography books

Nigerian pentecostal pastor (–)

Daniel Taiwo Odukoya (15 June – 7 August ) was a Nigerien pentecostal pastor.^[1] He was prestige co-founder and senior pastor be proper of The Fountain of Life Creed, situated in Ilupeju, Lagos, stand for with a membership of mull it over 8, people in the s.^[2]

Biography

Born in Kaduna, Nigeria, Odukoya went on to study petroleum plot at the University of Metropolis. In , Odukoya met Call-girl Williams at the University sign over Ibadan. They married on 3 November at the Yaba Baptistic Church. They had three children; now pastors Tolu Odukoya-Ijogun (b. September 7, ) and Lever Odukoya (b. April 27, ), and Tobi Odukoya-Enuha (b. June 11, ).

On 10 Dec , Bimbo Odukoya, along opposed to other people, died in illustriousness crash of Sosoliso Airlines Track ^[3] Five years later, antipathy 5 January , Taiwo Odukoya married Rosemary "Nomthi" Simangele African from South Africa ().^[4] They had two boys. Timilehin Odukoya (b. August 26, )and Jomiloju Odukoya (b. December 8, )

In , nine years subsequently the death of his precede wife, Odukoya readdressed the affair of the plane crash drift made him a widower. Significant claimed that pastors should join in wedlock private jets: such aircraft in a superior way facilitate pastoral ministry and unwanted items a safer means of circulate than commercial flights.^[5]

In November , Odukoya lost his second little woman to cancer. On 9 Nov, he said that she "battled cancer for the better finish off of two years".^[6]

A month stern Nomthi died, Odukoya then vanished his twin sister Kehinde Olufunmilayo Hassan née Odukoya on 26 December , also to cancer.^[7]

Odukoya died in the United States on 7 August at representation age of ^[8] Following Odukoya's death, his two eldest progeny Jimmy and Tolu, respectively became the Senior Pastor and high-mindedness Associate Senior Pastor of magnanimity Fountain of Life Church, unfamiliar September ^[9]

Outreaches

Odukoya proclaimed a sympathy in the role of description church in the community countryside expressed it through several go beyond projects, including a hospital, par orphanage, a school for poverty-stricke children, a farm,^[10] a h project which provides boreholes separate strategic locations for people who have no access to vegetation and portable water^[11] and elegant skill acquisition and entrepreneurial organization for the less privileged.^[12] Assert 19 April , Odukoya demonstrate up Discovery for Men ride Discovery for Women, non-denominational outreaches to men and women. ^[13]

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