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General Superintendent, Deeper
Christian Life Ministry Worldwide
Click here to visit Pastor Dr W F
Kumuyi's Website.
William
Kumuyi, a former University Don, is the founder and General Superintendent
of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM) worldwide. He is the pastor
of the Headquarters Church located in Lagos where he teaches, preaches and
conducts services, which attract over 400,000 people weekly. At present,
the church has more than 1 million members in over 60 countries of Africa,
Europe, Russia, Asia and America.
From a small beginning, the church under Kumuyi’s leadership has
established itself as the fastest growing church on the African continent.
The church is constructing a 125,000 capacity stadium-like auditorium in
Lagos, Nigeria, to accommodate its growing congregation. The phenomenal
growth of the church tends to overshadow its small beginning with 15 adult
members in 1973. By 1988 the congregation had grown to 50,000. It is
presently the largest single church congregation in Africa and the third
largest in the world. As the DCLM blossomed throughout Africa it also
extended its missionary exploits to Europe and America. The work in Europe
started as a small Bible study group in 1983 in London and the church was
registered in the UK in 1985 with branches all across the UK and in more
than 12 other European countries. Similarly, the work has been growing in
the USA and Canada. Deeper Life’s first missionaries arrived in the USA in
1982 and the church was officially registered in 1987.
Dr. C. Peter Wagner, in an article titled 'Those Amazing
Post-Denominational Churches' wrote: "By far, the most rapidly growing
segment of Christianity on all six continents is a type of church that
does not fit traditional categories or classifications. Perhaps one title
that would fit is the term 'post-denominational."
"Go to almost any metropolitan area and ask to visit the largest Christian
Church. Chances are it will be one of these new post-denominational
churches'. In Lagos, Nigeria, it would be the Deeper Life Bible Church,
pastored by William Kumuyi (Apostolic Team Ministries, Intl., Newsletter
09).
Journalist Alan Isaacson provides a helpful study of this phenomenal
ministry in his book Deeper Life, talking with many members of the church
who told him how Christ has miraculously intervened and changed lives in
response to prayer and the proclamation of the Gospel. In Pastor Kumuyi's
own words: "God, in the growth of Deeper Life Bible Church, has
strategically and prudently used miracles to ‘make all men come to Him'
(John 3:26).
Dr. William Kumuyi’s ministry has transformed millions of lives worldwide.
His passion for world evangelisation has brought him in contact with great
evangelists like Billy Graham and Bruce Wilkinson among others. He was one
of the key speakers at the Evangelism Conference Lausanne II held in
Manila, the Philippines, 1989 and the Amsterdam 2000 organised by Billy
Graham Evangelistic Group. In Turn the Tide Conference of May 2003, held
in South Africa, Kumuyi, in association with other notable speakers
reached an estimated 300,000 people in the eight major countries of
Southern Africa. In October 2009 Dr Kumuyi, along with Roger Forster and
Hugh Osgood among others, will be speaking at the London-wide ‘Fresh
Focus’ evangelistic conference, which brings together a unique
network involving the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Churches in
Communities International, Evangelical Alliance, Global Day of Prayer,
Premier Christian Radio and Prophetic Voice Ministers.
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