User:Emmy Rey/Deeper Christian Life Ministry

Deeper Christian Life Ministry (Deeper Life Bible Church) was founded by a reknowned pastor: Pastor (Dr) William Folorunsho Kumuyi in the Year 1973. It started as a 15-member Bible Study Group. The Deeper Life Bible Church - amongst the Largest churhes in the world, according to independent statistics- is the flagship organization of DCLM which has its headquarters at Gbagada, Lagos,Nigeria. The church has more than 1 million members in Sixty(60) countries in Africa, Europe,Asia and the Americas and thats around 1977. The Church still has its headquarters in Gbagada, BUT it is now the fourth largest Church in the World and the Largest in Africa with over 120,000 members in a single congregation. The Church had had many Crusades under the leadership of Pastor W.F Kumuyi. Lives have been touched by this Church. There have been many testimonies of God's Greatness in the Church,and God is Still Helping the Man of God. The Church has been established in over 50 countries in Africa and more than 30 countries in other continents.

BIOGRAPHY of Pastor W.F. Kumuyi

Pastor W.F kumuyi was born on the 6th of June 1941 in Erin Ijesha, Ilesha, Osun State, Nigeria.

His Father's name was Gabriel Kumuyi Akinfenwa, while His Mother's name was Comfort Kumuyi.

Pastor Kumuyi's full name was Ikumuyiwa .

He completed his secondary school education in 1961, and in 1962 started teaching mathematics at Mayflower School in Ikenne, Ogun-State, from where he proceeded to the University of Ibadan and in 1967 graduated with a first-class honours degree in mathematics, and later became a lecturer in the University of Lagos.He became a born-again Christian in April 1964.

Though he grew up as a church boy with Christian parents in his early days, he lost interest in Church at some points in his life.