Aladura is the branch of Christianity in Nigeria inspired by the 1918 Pentecostal movement of Anglican lay leader, Joseph Sadare, D.O Odubanjo, I.O Sanya, J.A Babatunde, and their friends in faith from which indigenous independent “praying” churches took its root. “Aladura” is a Yoruba word meaning “praying people” accentuating the belief of early adherents in…
Timothy Obadare Television Evangelist and convener of Koseunti (God who never fails), a monthly revival program that draws many hundred spiritual tourists to Akure town. Timothy Obadare was born 1930 in Ilesa to a family of clergies. He grew up in The Apostolic Church, where his father served as a pastor. Obadare lost his eyesight at…
This account for the beginning of Joseph Ayo Babalola’s Church in 1930, I shall hereby endeavour to report this account word for word to a good extent, as mere summary may not reveal the truth. This file began with a letter from a Wesleyan Methodist Reverend, Rev. Edward Nightingale to the Administrator of the Wesleyan…
Odubanjo D.O. was a clergy and one of the pioneers of Aladura movement branch of Christianity in Nigeria. Odubanjo was the first pastor of The Apostolic Church in Nigeria and one with whose 1931 letter to Missionary Herald in Great Britain, the news of the young faith healer, Ayo Babalola, first travelled abroad. Born 1881…