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.
He was also a board of trustee member and a missionary representative to Kenya for 5 years. Brother Lawon has a strong apostolic and prophetic dimension upon his ministry having been anointed primarily to be an apostolic leader. He is committed to seeing the mass of ordinary believers equipped by governmental ministries to fulfill their purpose in the earth. He has served the Lord faithfully in various capacities in the last 40 years.
He is a Geologist by original training and worked as hydro-geologist in the public sector. He was a former National Chair of the Nigeria Evangelical Missions Association (NEMA) (2004-2007). {LCWE}. He was National Chair of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, Nigeria.(2007-2010). He has helped to teach, train, mentor and equip thousands of leaders around the world by the grace of the living God.
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.
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.
He was also a board of trustee member and a missionary representative to Kenya for 5 years. Brother Lawon has a strong apostolic and prophetic dimension upon his ministry having been anointed primarily to be an apostolic leader. He is committed to seeing the mass of ordinary believers equipped by governmental ministries to fulfill their purpose in the earth. He has served the Lord faithfully in various capacities in the last 40 years.
He is a Geologist by original training and worked as hydro-geologist in the public sector. He was a former National Chair of the Nigeria Evangelical Missions Association (NEMA) (2004-2007). {LCWE}. He was National Chair of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, Nigeria.(2007-2010). He has helped to teach, train, mentor and equip thousands of leaders around the world by the grace of the living God.
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.
