PAST CONFERENCES
AWMC OVERVIEW
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. 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
AWMC-EUROPE 2025 VIDEOS
Day 1, 22nd May 2025
Day 2, 23rd May 2025
Day 3, 24th May 2025
AWMC-EUROPE 2025 PLENARY SPEAKERS
Isaiah D. Lawon
Hugh Osgood
Dr Hugh Osgood is a senior UK church leader, accomplished Bible teacher and preacher, and is known for his thoroughness combined with strategic and practical insights.
Hugh is passionate about equipping fellow leaders and for encouraging churches to engage with their communities.
Over the years he has taught at many conferences with his sermons being widely broadcast on radio and TV. Much of this recorded material is now available to download for free as part of his commitment to increase biblical literacy worldwide.
He has held a number of national and international positions, including the Free Churches Moderator and a President of Churches Together in England, as well as being the Co-Convenor of the UK Charismatic and Pentecostal Leaders’ Gathering and serving as the founding President of Churches in Communities International.
In 2007 Hugh founded the charity Charis Communications to enable him to meet needs much wider than the local church setting.
Paul Harris
Paul Harris has been a missionary with the International Mission Board since 2012 when his family went to serve the Lord in South Asia. They lived for 10 years, training Christians in evangelism and discipleship. He and his wife Kate sensed a call to South London where they have been serving Him for two and a half years. They are walking alongside Christians through the elements of the Core Missionary Task (entry, evangelism, discipleship, healthy church, leadership development, and exit). Their desire is to see healthy disciples and churches multiply into every nation, tribe, people, and language throughout South London, Southeast England, and beyond.
Peter Oyugi
Rev Peter Oyugi serves as the Continental Administrative Coordinator of the Movement of African National Initiatives (MANI). Most of his time is spent serving as a mission’s catalyst and mentor and is actively engaged in various continental and global mission collaborative initiatives in which he is keen to ensure that Majority World believers rise up to their responsibilities of spreading the good news of Jesus Christ to all. Peter also serves on the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission Leaders’ Cohort as one of the deputy leaders. He has previously served as a Pastor in London.
John Durodola
Professor John Durodola is the immediate past Chairman of the Overseas Fellowship of Nigerian Christians, a registered Christian Charity in the UK. He currently serves as the Director of Partnerships for the organisation. He has held leadership roles in the Church, Fellowships and Christian Charities for many years. He loves the Lord and works for the Church of Christ without barriers. He longs for peace and unity in the body of Christ. He believes in the authority of the word of God, the great commission and intercedes for the persecuted Church worldwide. He lives with his wife Dr Funmi Durodola in Oxford where they serve the Lord in various capacities. He is with the Oxford Brookes University where he teaches and carries out research in the area of computational stress analysis and materials engineering.
Tyron Singh
Tyrone Singh was born in Bedford, United Kingdom and surrendered his life to Jesus Christ at the age of 17. He had a supernatural encounter with the Holy Spirit that changed the course of his life. The Lord revealed His heart to him and called him to teach the gospel without compromise, training others to walk in the fullness of all that Christ has paid for. He currently serves as John G. Lake Ministries England Representative. He travels extensively throughout the UK and Europe training and equipping believers to walk in their inheritance in Christ.
Pre Ovia
Pastor Pre Ovia, with his wife Tina is the Founder and Senior Pastor of Destiny International Christian Assembly. He is blessed with wisdom and a variety of gifts and talents, committed to his calling of developing other people to fulfil their potential in Christ Jesus. By helping them to identify the hidden potentials in them, he provides support all through the training and developing process. A Pastor of pastors, he has nurtured many into full bloom and is still committed to mentoring people to different callings.
Pastor Pre travels worldwide teaching and strengthening the body of Christ, working with many ministries to expand the kingdom. He networks with other ministries of similar grace and vision with a target of maximising the end-time global harvest. His ministries and churches are present across the United Kingdom, Malta, Canada, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. He is blessed with four children and many grandchildren.
Thomas Knight
Thomas came to Bradford to study in Peace Studies and International Development and, during his studies, joined the team at Bradford Global Cafe. He now has the privilege of leading the team and enjoys the challenge of helping students from diverse backgrounds meet Jesus through God’s word.
Thomas loves living in a city where he can make friends and eat meals from all over the world, but will always have a soft spot for his native Newcastle. He is part of the family at City Valley Church and an affiliate with Friends International.
AWMC-EUROPE 2024 VIDEOS
Plenary Speakers AWMC-EUROPE 2024
Isaiah 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.
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.
Israel O Olofinjana
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.
