In March 2015, a Sister Mrs Fawole fondly called \u201cArokaJesu\u201d\ncalled me from Columbus Ohio and narrated how she has been given a revelation\nin her sleep about a church with her altar filled with bottles of water being\nprayed on by the Pastor for people healing and deliverance. She said she hasn’t\nseen or been to any church in the physical live where such thing like that\nhappened. So, she went online and saw one of our Wakati Iyanu Live Programs\nwhere she noticed and saw that our altar was full of water bottle just the same\nway she saw it in her dream. And that was when she decided to attend the next\nphysical gathering of our Wakati Iyanu Yoruba program which she did along with\nher husband in the July chapter of 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After her experience, she made an urgent and importunate\n(repeated) requests to me and my wife to extend the wing of Wakati Iyanu\n(Yoruba) program to the city of Columbus and the State of Ohio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, as we normally do, I and my wife went into prayer to see\nwhether God really want us to …, and when would He want us to go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, when we got God approval then;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Shared the idea with the other ministers and the then\nchurch committee who sees the move as godly move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. I asked my wife (Lady Evangelist Comfort Adenike Oloba)\nwho is gifted in church planting to go and visit the city (Columbus) to see\nwhat the area look like, and to look for a hall that we can use for our first\nnight vigil program. She spent few days staying with the Fawoles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And to the glory God , we planned and carried out\nsuccessfully our first Wakati Iyanu Yoruba program on Friday June 7th<\/sup>,\n2016, at:2975 Morse Road Ste C,\nColumbus, Ohio 43231<\/strong> with almost two hundred (200) in attendance.\nFew members of our Lithonia Assembly were in attendance. Pastor Kehinde\nAdelodun from our Indianapolis Assembly with his wife and children drove for\nthree hours to attend this program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Also in the weekend of Friday August 12th <\/sup>– Sunday August 14th<\/sup>, 2016 we\ncame back and of course inaugurated the church service with some members of the\nLithonia Assembly in attendance \u2013 Evang. Victoria O\u2019babatunde, Evang. Alphonsus\nOseizagha, Evang. Samuel Oloba, Elder Richard Akolade, Sister Lola Winful,\nSister Odunayo Aluko, Brother Seun Owolabi. Along with us into this inaugural\nservice was Pastor Joushua Fadipe, whom I introduced to the members, and prayed\nfor on that Sunday of August 14th<\/sup>, 2016 as a minister in charged on\na temporary deployment until the CAC Authority has found him fit for the job of\nthe Assembly Pastor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this inaugural service, we recorded for the first time in\nall our previous church planting a starting member of over one hundred. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We started service in this location and because of the time\navailable for us (2pm \u2013 4.30pm) the members saw the need to look and secure our\nown place of worship whereby the church can be holding regular and Sunday\nmorning services instead of the afternoon \u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Precisely a month after the church inauguration, Lady Evang.\nComfort Oloba was quickly deployed to this baby church for the sake of\nstability. She was in the house of the Fawoles for few weeks. The history of our\nColumbus Assembly will be incomplete if we failed to appreciate the unrelenting\nefforts of Mr & Mrs Fawole. <\/p>\n\n\n\n During this time Evangelist Comfort Oloba tireless and\nzealous service coupled with the supports of the Fawole family and that of our\nable Evangelist Omifidipe the church was able to secure our present place of\nworship at: 834 North Cassady Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, 43219. We cannot forget\nthe love and the enthusiastic of mommy Deaconess Adelaja and others who at the\ninception took it upon themselves to pay for the rent, furniture, and filled\nthe Pastor house with all manners of food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While praying and waiting on God to provide us a servant\nafter God\u2019s own heart to supervise or pastor these great and spiritually hungry\npeople, I and my wife had to changed our schedules and of course cancelled most\nof our mission trips to the church in Spain and . It was a challenging time for\nus as leaders and for the church. Because, the church lost virtually all the\nstarting and committed members due to the issue of Pastor Joshua Fashipe \u2026. Hence, there was no money to sponsor\nministers from Headquarter Assembly. I and my wife with our two boys (Samuel\nand Seun) have had to be on road for nine hours to and fro Columbus Assembly\nand Atlanta twice (between year 2016 and 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n And with the restless efforts of Mr & Mrs Fawole, the\nchurch was able to be legally registered as a Domestic nonprofit Corporation in\nthe State of Ohio, on October 26th<\/sup>, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Few of these pioneer members who stood the test of time\nwere: Mr & Mrs Fawole; Mrs Nike Obayemi (who was appointed as church\nSecretary); Mrs Kike Ayeni (who was appointed as the Church Women Leader); Mrs\nDayo Ayeni (who was appointed as the church Treasurer), Evangelist Olukemi\nOmifidipe; and Dr & Mrs Isaiah Abimbola; Mr & Mrs Obajobi who have now\nrelocated to another State. Also, we cannot but sincerely appreciate productive\nefforts of our Pastor Abiola Idowu, who God used to fill the vacuum during those\nthriving and trying time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And on Sunday April 1st<\/sup>, 2017 our current man of\nGod (Pastor Adebowale Dairo) took up the leadership role of the church as the Assembly\nPastor<\/strong>. Pastor Dairo has been a committed, diligent, faithful and\nhardworking man of God. He and his wonderful family have been giving their best\nto see that the church grow in spiritually, numerically and in every area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We pray that the church of God will continue to grow and\nhaving bearing in Columbus and her environs in the name of Jesus Christ, our\nLord, Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In March 2015, a Sister Mrs Fawole fondly called \u201cArokaJesu\u201d called me from Columbus Ohio and narrated how she has been given a revelation in her sleep about a church with her altar filled with bottles of water being prayed on by the Pastor for people healing and deliverance. 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