Welcome to
AWMC EUROPE 2024
24th - 26th May, 2024
Dunamis Bible Church, Manchester Northmoor Rd, Longsight, Manchester, M12 5RT, United Kingdom.
About AWMC
Theme: Impacting Global and Urban Missions: Training & Intercessions
Advancing World Missions Conference is an annual missions mobilization gathering of believers to empower, inform, pray, and encourage the church to finish her task of world evangelization. The conference was until 2012 solely run by Fullstature Missions International, but the story changed last year when many other Churches, Ministries, and Missions Agencies teamed up to co-own it. Past conferences have impacted powerfully on participants.
The conference is a platform and opportunity to sponsor a workshop or seminar of what your mission agency , ministry or church is doing as an effective model in world missions and to share that with the body of Christ. This means you can invite yourself and your audience and as a speaker (if approved by the management) to this conference.
It is also a platform to find the specific addresses of the unengaged and the unreached groups of the world. We will have testimonies of missionaries and plenty of opportunities for fellowship, networking, exchanges and access to resources of missionaries from different countries. Our pool of the guests ministers experiences this year span more than 100 years in the work of the Lord. This cannot be taken for granted as their effective model is a plus for the extension of the kingdom of God and we all stand to appreciate and learn from what God is doing in their lives
This year, our plenary speakers will include
Our Plenary Speakers
Apostle I. D. Lawon
Isaiah D. Lawon is the Founding President and General Missions Director of the Fullstature Missions International (FMI). The Fullstature Missions International is an agency of God for world Evangelization strategizing to evangelize, establish, equip, engage and extend for the kingdom of God. They as a team are presently active among 18 unreached peoples.
He is also the founder of the Fullstature College of the Bible and Missions {FCBM} training students for national and international ministry. He is the President of the Fullstature Missions Churches. Prior to founding FMI, he spent 15 years as a church planter, pastor/teacher and overseer in six states (Nigeria) in the Deeper Christian Life Ministry. In that season he raised his own church congregation from 100-150 to 12,000 members and helped other leaders under his care to plant 170 other churches in 10 years.
Dr. Timothy Aho
My wife, Tammy, and I catalyse the formation of teams to plant churches and make disciples in Birmingham. We lead a missional community called Companions for Hope, facilitate discipleship with an online community, and train global workers with EQUIP Britain International. We have experience working with Eritrean and multicultural churches. In my spare time, I referee ice hockey matches for exercise and because I love the sport. We just celebrated 29 years of living in Brum. We have two adult children and a son-in-law who live in California, with a Velcro family scattered about the UK and USA.
Rev. Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana (PhD)
Rev. Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana (PhD) is the Director of the One People Commission of the Evangelical Alliance. He is an ordained and accredited Baptist minister and has led two multi-ethnic Baptist churches and an independent charismatic church. He is the founding director of the Centre for Missionaries from the Majority World, a mission network initiative that provides cross-cultural training to reverse missionaries in Britain. Israel is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham. It is on the Advisory Group on Race and Theology of the Society for the Study of Theology (SST). He is a consultant to Lausanne Europe, advising them on matters related to European diaspora ministries. He is on the Christian Aid Working Group of Black Majority Church leaders, exploring the intersection of climate justice and racial justice and a member of Tearfund’s Theology Committee. Israel lectures at Christ Theological College on themes related to World Christianity.
He is a Yoruba Nigerian coming from a Pentecostal background. He holds a BA (Hons) in Religious Studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and an MTh from Carolina University of Theology (CUT). Israel’s PhD thesis, through his publications, has been to develop African British Theology, exploring African identity through Intercultural Missiology and Public Theology. He has published several books, including editing World Christianity in Western Europe: Diasporic Identity, Narratives and Missiology (2020), African Voices: Towards African British Theologies (2017), Turning the Tables on Mission: Stories of Christians from the Global South in the UK (2013) and co-editing Encountering London: London Baptists in the 21st Century (2015). He is the author of Reverse in Ministry and Missions: Africans in the Dark Continent of Europe (2010), 20 Pentecostal Pioneers in Nigeria (2011) and Partnership in Mission: A Black Majority Church Perspective on Mission and Church Unity (2015). He is happily married to Lucy Olofinjana, who works for London City Mission (LCM). as their Evangelism Content Manager. They are blessed with one son, Iyanuoluwa (meaning God’s miracle) and Iretioluwa (meaning God’s hope).
David & Teresa Fiitrro
David & Teresa Fiitrro
David & Teresa have lived and worked in the UK since 1991. We have worked in church planting, making disciples, training leaders, and community transformation. We currently live in Birmingham.
We have two children. Nathanael serves as a freelance global disciple maker and missionary. Rachael lives in Cardiff with her husband, Zach & son, Isaiah.
In addition to local disciple-making, we are team leaders with the Global Community Church (GCC). This multi-cultural house church meets in Birmingham's homes, cafes, pubs, and parks.
The core of our work is EQUIP Britain International. Through mentoring, coaching, and spiritual formation, participants experience urban, cross-cultural disciple-making. People who have trained with us are serving or preparing to serve in London, Birmingham (among predominantly Muslim communities), Mexico, Germany, Thailand, and Vietnam. More about EQUIP Britain can be found at www.equipbritain.com.
Teresa performs with amateur musical theatre and Rock Choir. David enjoys walking dogs and pub quizzes.
