PROFILE OF PASTOR TAIWO ODUKOYA
All he ever wanted to do in life was make a difference in other people’s lives. And as a child, he thought the only way to accomplish this was to be in politics. Several decades later, Daniel Taiwo Odukoya is and has been doing what he has always wanted to do - serve, but not in the sense he imagined. He is catering to the spiritual, emotional and physical needs of many, and using his God-given resources to raise leaders in every sphere of life.

This outstanding gentleman, who is the founding and senior pastor of The Fountain of Life Church, was born on June 15, 1956 in Kaduna. He had his primary and secondary education at Baptist Primary School, Kaduna and St. Paul’s College (now Kufena College), Zaria respectively, before proceeding to the University of Ibadan where he obtained a degree in petroleum engineering in 1981.

As a petroleum engineer, he started work at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in April 1982 after the compulsory one-year national youth service. His intelligence, diligence and integrity saw him sitting on different policy-drafting committees at the corporation before his voluntary retirement in 1994. He was instrumental in fashioning some key policies that are still in use in the Nigerian oil industry today.

The Fountain of Life Church was born in 1992 after Pastor Taiwo was formally released and sent forth, with his wife, by the presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM) to start a new work. With a membership of about 20 at inception, the Church has today become one of the most influential Pentecostal denominations in the country with a congregation of over 8,000, and has nurtured and released over 20 local assemblies across the country. Its vision is to build the home and thus build the nation, and to equip the saints for life and ministry.