Pastor Yemi Davids, Senior Pastor and Founder of the Global Impact Church will on August 31 be inaugurated and commissioned to lead the Lagos Chapter of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria.
The event will take place at the Covenant Centre, Orile, Lagos at exactly 9 am. It is expected to attract about 5000 Pentecostals and Christians from other denominations including government functionaries and captains of industries.
He will be inaugurated along with the newly elected Vice Chairman, Rev Janet Onaolapo, General Overseer of the Abundant Life Bible Church and other executives of the body.
Davids’ inauguration will mark the beginning of a new dawn in the fellowship. This is following the successful tenures of 10 chairmen of the fellowship who served from 1986 to 2024.
The first chairman was Rev Isaac Mpamaugo. He served between 1986 and 1990, Rev Wilson Badejo, 1990-1992, Pastor M. K Ogunbola 1992-1995, Pastor Paul Akapo 1995-1996 and Bishop Lawrence Osagie 1996-2000.
Also, Bishop Lanre Obembe led the fellowship between 2002 and 2005, Pastor Wale Adefarasin from 2005-2008, Apostle Alex Bamgbola from 2008-2014, Bishop Sola Ore from 2014 to 2020 while Apostle Eyinnaya Okwuonu led the fellowship from 2020 to 2024.
Pastor Davids was elected to succeed Apostle Eyinnaya by a 28-member electoral body in April. His election is described as a clean break from the past because of his credentials as belonging to the new breed of pastors with an avangardist view of life.
It is expected that Pastor Davids will bring his experience as a church planter and team leader to bear in his new role as the PFN leader in Lagos.
Pastor Yemi assumes the leadership of the fellowship at a very crucial time in its life and that of the nation, a time when there are serious challenges to unity, fellowship, justice, national integrity, righteousness amd social justice.
He comes with a mandate to bring healing and unity, to galvanize the fellowship around the pillars of righteousness, integrity, and truth and to speak to the issues that bedevil society and our nation.
Apart from being the founding pastor of Global Impact Churches with headquarters at The Goodland, Ogudu, Lagos, he is the President of Global Impact Institute (GII).
A graduate of Urban and Regional Planning from Obafemi Awolowo University, Davids also founded the Living Word Campus Fellowship while at the OAU and had a reputation for fraternising with fathers of faith right from his time in school. He is thus seen as a bridge builder between the old generation and the New Generation of pastors.
He became a Christian while at the Abeokuta Grammar School as a result of his interaction with the Scripture Union Movement. It was that experience he carried to the university and had so far become a veritable instrument in the hands of God.
Yemi Davids is a known church apologist. He believes in the unity of the church and has at several fora advocated that the church speak with one voice. His love for the church is seen in his often willingness to honour invitations that draw participants from several denominations. He is a known resource person at leadership training fora both within and outside Nigeria.
He is a sought-after speaker and highly gifted in practical teachings in the area of Divine Wisdom for Life. He has a passion for leadership and hosts the Ministers and Leaders Forum (MLF) dedicated to leaders. He is a member of the Faculty of Daystar Leadership Academy Executive and also possesses an Advanced Diploma in Pastoral and Transformational Leadership, RILA.
Yemi Davids also holds a certificate from the Word of Faith Bible Institute [WOFBI] by Living Faith Church, Daystar Leadership Academy (DLA), Nigeria, Institute of Leadership & Management, United Kingdom, to mention but a few.
He is author of several books including the BE Great Daily Devotional, 7 Laws of Favour, In Pursuit of Academic Excellence, Etc.
He is married to Abimbola and has four wonderful daughters.
