Biography, wikipedia, age, net worth, and ministry of pastor Taiwo Odukoya
Pastor Taiwo Odukoya is a Pentecostal from Nigeria. With more than 8,000 members, he serves as senior pastor of The Fountain of Life Church in Ilupeju, Lagos.
Early life
On June 15, 1956, Taiwo Odukoya was born in Kaduna, Colonial Nigeria, where he also had his upbringing. Before enrolling at the University of Ibadan in 1976, where he earned a degree in petroleum engineering in 1981, he completed his primary and secondary education at the Baptist Primary School, Kigo Road, Kaduna, and St. Paul’s College (now known as Kufena College, Wusasa) Baptist Primary School, Kigo Road, Kaduna, and St. Paul’s College (now known as Kufena College, Wusasa).
After completing the required one-year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) program, he began working as a petroleum engineer for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in April 1982. He remained there until his voluntary retirement in January 1994, when he was called to the ministry.
Family Life
At the University of Ibadan, Odukoya and Bimbo Williams started a romance that resulted in their marriage in 1984. Three kids were born from the union. Bimbo Odukoya and 102 other passengers on the downed Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 perished on December 10, 2005. Many people had responded positively to Bimbo Odukoya’s messages.On January 5, 2010, five years later, Taiwo Odukoya remarried South African Rosemary Simangele Zulu.Two boys were born from the union.
Odukoya lost his second wife to cancer in November 2021. On November 9, the pastor made an announcement regarding the passing of his wife, stating that the South African had “battled cancer for the better part of two years.”
The Fountain of Life Church
With the mission of “teaching men and women the skill of developing successful relationships and the principles of leadership so they can be all they are designed to be,” Taiwo and Bimbo Odukoya co-founded The Fountain of Life Church in 1992. There are numerous missions for the Church in South Africa, the UK, the US, Switzerland, Kenya, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, the Republic of Benin, and Togo.
Outreaches
In addition to a hospital, an orphanage, a school for needy children, a farm, a water project that installs boreholes in key locations for people without access to clean, portable water, and a skill-acquisition and entrepreneurial institute for the less fortunate, Odukoya proclaims a strong belief in the role of the church in the community. Taiwo Odukoya established Discovery for Men and Discovery for Women on April 19, 1997. These non-denominational outreach programs for men and women are aimed at assisting individuals in realizing their full potential. These outreach initiatives provide technical and real-world life skills to hundreds of thousands of men and women each year through quarterly rallies, mentorship programs, and a vocational center.
Controversy
Odukoya revisited the plane tragedy that left him a widower in 2014, nine years after the passing of his first wife. He asserted that pastors would be well advised to fly on private jets since they enable pastoral ministry better and provide a safer alternative to commercial flights.
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