Ezekiel Odeyemi
Ezekiel Odeyemi is a member of the Governing Council of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Special Assistant to the General Overseer (SATGO) on Education & Training, Regional Coordinator, RCCG Central Africa. He is very passionate about raising Visionary & Transformational Leaders. He is also the director for the Center for Pastoral Leadership and Management Training, through which he coordinates training of Pastors, Ministers and Workers involved in every aspect of Ministry in RCCG. In addition he is the Vice President (Admin and Evangelism) for Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries. He has been instrumental in the setting up of various ministries of the Church involved with social transformation and Christian Social Responsibility, and has chaired the boards of various organizations and ministries that seeks to minister to the disadvantaged, drug addicts, and trafficked girls. He is also passionate about the holistic development of Youths. Pastor Ezekiel Odeyemi is a bundle of exceptional skills and talents.
Eniabitobi Kuyinu
Eniabitobi Kuyinu is a Licensed Professional Counselor, an ordained minister with The Redeemed Christian Church of God, and a ford fellow with a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from Mercer University Atlanta with a specialization in Christian Sex Therapy from Richmont Graduate University Atlanta, a Master’s degree in Marriage & Family Therapy from Abilene Christian University (ACU), Texas, USA. She has a BA in Theology from L.I.F.E, Theological Seminary, Lagos and a BSc in Microbiology from University of Benin, Benin city. She is trained in Biofeedback and Neurofeedback, and she is also a certified Sexual Abstinence Instructor through the W.A.I.T. Training Program, Colorado, USA. Her area of interest include the use of expressive art in therapy and she has training in play therapy and sand tray therapy; sexual pain disorder in women; use of biofeedback in treating anxiety, PTSD, and sexual trauma from childhood sexual abuse and sex trafficking; psychosomatic disorders. She is also particularly interested in Missions and the indigenization of counseling cross-culturally as a tool of cross-cultural missions. She has hosted different groups and individuals on short-term mission trips to Nigeria, West Africa. She is deeply involved in mission work, and pioneered a mission field in Nigeria to include a Church, School and Medical Outreach. She has conducted series of counseling training in Lagos, Nigeria with clergies, lay counselors and school counselors. She has authored various articles and books among which are “Mother and Child” (2001)”, and “The Home: The Home Art of keeping and Maintaining a Home (2005)”. She is very passionate about helping young adults and women reach their highest potentials in life.
Jason Rowland
Jason Rowland: In the Fall of 2006, Jason left Valdosta after a growing and successful 12 years of ministry and moved to the Atlanta metro area and 2010 became the Lead Pastor of Living Waters International Church in Riverdale, Georgia. Living Waters is known as “a church of every nation, tribe, and tongue” due to its large number of international attenders and sits in one of the metro’s economically challenged areas. Riverdale is in the northern part of Clayton County which is deemed Atlanta metro area’s poorest county. Pastor Jason is married to Karen Rowland. Karen is a professor at Mercer University where she teaches Counselor Education. Their family’s core value is ‘people are more important than things’ and they strive every day to place people first. He is the author of three publications: Bless the Socks Off Your Enemy, Meditate, and Pleading the Blood Over Your Family.
Joseph Takon
Joseph Takon, MD, was born in Cameroon, West Africa and was raised in Nigeria, West Africa. Trained as a medical doctor, he practiced as a physician in Nigeria for several years while serving God in various capacities in the ministry. While in college he was President/Pastor of Evangelical Christian Union, ECU, University of Ife, at the time, the largest single fellowship of Christian Students worldwide with over a thousand students in weekly attendance. He was also the Executive National Secretary and Governing Council Member of Nigerian Fellowship of Evangelical Students (NIFES) before deciding to work more with the local church, The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG. Dr. Takon left his medical practice to answer the Call to full time ministry service in 1995 where he pioneered and served as parish pastor to several churches in Nigeria. In 1996 he headed an RCCG church planting mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti where he also served as parish pastor for several years before relocating to the United States in 2000 to pioneer yet another church. Since then he has been the pastor of RCCG, City of David, Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to pastoring a local parish, Dr Takon also serves as a director in several charitable organizations including the Boards of the African Missions, North America (AMNA), the African Leadership Conference, (ALC) as well as being the CEO of Redeemer’s Medical Centers, a clinic that offers free medical services to the community in Gwinnett County, Georgia USA. In recognition of his leadership and services to the community, he was one of two thousand leaders invited in 2004 by the White House for the first Faith Based and Community Initiative (FBCI) National Conference. He is currently a Provincial Pastor overseeing four zones of the The Redeemed Christian Church of God churches in Georgia, Tennessee and Haiti. Dr. Takon is married to Pastor ‘Yemi Takon and has four children.
Lucille C. Liggins
Lucille C. Liggins has taught adult and youth Sunday school for the past 25 plus years, and serves as the Director of Sunday School Education at Maranatha Bible Church. She has a heart for women’s ministry and missions. Mrs. Lucille Liggins recently retired from Humana Military, where she served as a Tricare Service Representative for Humana Military Healthcare Services providing clear and concise education including conducting face to face briefings concerning the TRICARE medical benefits and government policies and procedures. Her passion for the struggles and heartaches of women trying to raise their children alone, is a product of her experience as a teenage unwed mother for eight years. Her heart desire is to help families that are looking for the hope and wisdom in raising children and oftentimes grandchildren, and to point woman to a relationship with Jesus Christ and to His Word for the answers needed in becoming a better parent. She is married to Pastor Tony W. Liggins and co-founder of Maranatha Bible Church. They have been married 35 years and are the parents of three adult children and 5 grandchildren. Her favorite scripture is 2 Corinthians 5: 14-15 “For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for the, and was raised again.”