Pastor Faith Oyedepo formally known as Faith Florence Abiola Akano hails from Ogun state born on the 5th of February, 1958 and is married to pastor David Oyedepo of Living Faith Worldwide. Pastor Faith is also an author known for enriching the lives of singles, strengthening the family unit and empowering Women. A source has it that Pastor Faith started a love relationship with her husband while she was at the University of Ife and later got married over three decades ago, the union is blessed with four children, namely: David(jnr) Oyedepo, Love Oyedepo, Isaac Oyedepo and Joyce Oyedepo, her children is also involve in the ministry of the gospel; David(jnr) and Isaac are pastors, ordained by Kenneth Copeland in 2007.
The church she pastors with her husband started in Kaduna in 1981, later moved to Lagos State in 1989, the headquarter is located now in Ota, Ogun state,this church has also been chosen as the church with the largest auditorium as at 2008 by Guinness book of world record.
The ministry she is, is also in the business of staring up God-given potentials embedded in people of all race and nation and also to provide employment to thousands of people; currently the church provides employment to more than 2000 people in Nigeria alone.
Apart from working side by side with her husband in ministry, She has helped improve the strides of education in Nigeria. She is the Chancellor of Covenant University and has helped in building quality colleges and universities such as:
.Landmark University
.Crown University
.Faith Academy ( A christain secondary School located in Canaan land, Ota)
.Kingdom Heritage Model School ( This is a nursery and primary school born out of faith and is currently spread across more than ten regions in Nigeria.
As an author she uses her experiences to motivate people in the area of family, Youth and Women empowerment as well as Marital success, her books include: Understanding Womanhood, Success in Marriage, Marriage Covenant and many more. She is the Co-founder of Faith/ David Oyedepo Foundation, a foundation involve in the awarding of scholarships and grants to the less priviledged and indigene who are willingly to further their education; Covenant and Landmark Universities are used to take care of these. She together with her husband has a publishing firm commissioned in 1992, this publishing firm has millions of prints in circulation.
Recently, She had a health challenge that almost took her life and made her helpless but she is fine today and doing the work of God more Zealously, She still believes there are more lives to be impacted, she believes in the twelve pillars of her ministry: Faith, The word, miracles, Holy Spirit, Prosperity, Healing, Wisdom, Prayer, Success, Vision and Consecration. This pastor, wife, mother and grandmother pastors a church that owns four private Jets and several buildings home and abroad worth millions of dollars. There is always more to do, the world is female!
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