By May Olusola
A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men. (Proverbs 18:16).It is one thing to recognize recognize the gifts you have when you come to this earth, and another thing to invite the Lord to bring about their full manifestation in your lifetime. Some people are fortunate to catch on with the revelation early in life. For others it is in mid-life or in old age. Many have gone to their graves without discovering or running effectively with what they were called to do. Nigerian-born Pastor Sunday Adelaja found his purpose very early in life and against the odds of race, poverty, and communism; he founded at the age of 33 and built what has become the largest church in Europe, with a congregation that is 98 percent white.
When Rev. Vernon Fernandes was very ill two months after his birth, his praying grandmother offered him to God. Little did she know what she was staging her family, native country of Tanzania and the world as a whole for. Today, Rev. Vernon Fernandes is the Senior Pastor of Agape World Ministries and founder of the most effective TV station in East Africa. Known as Agape Television Network, it is an inspirational Television Station that offers family programs ranging from children shows to youth talk shows and preaching via TBN. It is located on the spectacular Mbezi Beach in Tanzania and reaches out to 6 million viewers.
James Oladipo Fadele was born on April 5, 1958 to a devout Catholic family in Nigeria. As a child, he used to carry his father's Bible on his head as they went to church on Sundays. There was emphasis on Christian values in his home and James saw himself becoming a Reverend father in the future. His father was a strict disciplinarian and knew the value of education; he encouraged all his children to go to school. Fadele loved school and he excelled in it, especially, in the field of Mathematics. Thus began the foundation for many years of formal education which served him well in his later years.
