How did you come into the ministry?
By His Grace, I came into the ministry in 1976. God was so kind to me that He chose me as one of the people to serve Him, but it took me a very long time to yield to the call. I wondered as a young man the reason that would make God to call me, when I should be enjoying my life. I did not know that God was calling me out of the world into a better life.
I looked for a way to avoid the call or to possibly pay people to continue the work, but none came. However, it came to a stage that I could no longer run away from the call. God held me in a way that whether I liked it or not, I had to obey the call and do His task. So, I sincerely surrendered myself totally.
After succumbing, I began to regret while I yielded to the call late. And because I was a novice in spiritual things, God started teaching me His ways until I began to heal the sick, pray for barren women to be mothers of children and also began to set free pregnant women that had been held down by evil forces.
I started from the grass, but God lifted me to grace. Today, I dine and wine with kings, governors, heads of state and others that matter in the society. People, including Sunny Ade (popularly known as King Sunny Ade) became an Apostle in the church and has contributed in no small measure to its development. The church was first established at Alawusa Street, Ijebu-Ode, in 1976 and in 1977, God directed me to relocate to Odogbolu and that He will show me a place to settle as a Holy Land, which will be named Mt. Jieawoworrar All Saints Church of Christ.
I did not delay a minute and I moved to Odogbolu. My parents were from Odogbolu.
It was later that I knew that the relocation had something to do with my beginning. I was named Samuel because my father did not have a child until he was 50 years old. I am his second child; the first was a girl, Dorcas Adedoyin Ademosu of blessed memory. After the first child, my father was anxious to get a second child, so, he made a vow to God that if He gives him a male child, he would name him Samuel and he would serve Him all his life. That was the commitment, but I did not know this until I came into the ministry.
The first church I attended was St. Paul Anglican Church, Odogbolu where my father was the Balogun and my mother was the leader of “Egbe Obinrin rere” meaning “Good Women Band.”
After my secondary school education, I worked in the accounts department of Major & Company, a pharmaceutical company in Yaba, among others, before answering the call.
I revealed to my father how God want me to be relocated to Odogbolu. I also asked him to give me a piece of land out of all the ones he had for the church. He agreed and said we should go to the different locations where he had landed property.
I then disclosed to him that God told me he would give me a sign of the actual location He want me to establish the church. We went to different places before we got to this location. This location actually reminded me of my infancy, when I used to come and farm here with my father
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