“Maximize your life!…….
Be who God created you to be…
Be sensational and be phenomenal….
Do what God intended you to do………
Live life the way God intended you to…..
For heaven’s sake, be somebody!…………..
Discover, develop and deploy the gifts that God has given to you…..
Teach the word with boldness, with precision and with accuracy……

Do something great! And PUT YOUR NAME ON IT”

Pastor Dr Adetayo Adetokumbo Michael Adeyemi (2011)

Pastor Tayo,

Thank you for saying yes to God for in doing so He created through you fertile soil in which I was planted and grew to bear fruit that lasts. Thank you for saying yes to God because in doing so you gave Him space to rescue and heal a fragile, broken and wounded young woman, lost and without an identity. Thank you for saying yes to God – without your obedience I would still be living in and overwhelmed by my past and my mistakes, and I would be no one today! You always used to say that you fought with God for years before accepting His call. But you know, it doesn’t matter that it took you all those years to answer God’s call on your life, this tribute page testifies that you did it just in time!

Because of you, I am now in a place where I am no longer afraid to commit in a limitless way to our limitless God, in a love-full way to our love-full house and without inhibition to the furthering of the cause of the greatest Kingdom without walls. And so I will be a great servant to God and to the leadership of our house to whom you clothed over with the mantle. I will live out the covenant I took that day when I became a member and wept at the miracle of belonging in love again, and I will seek to make God’s name great on this earth, to stand honourably on those giant shoulders of yours and not to dwell there in remembrance of you. When I have mourned your loss, I will launch again to fly and soar! And when people ask me how I got so much influence so young in life, I will tell them about God, about my Godly parental heritage, about the greatest church family I know and about the man who not only said yes to God and taught me that 24 was not too young to start having dominion over the mountains of the world, but who showed me the exact ‘HOW TO’. How to be excellent, how to rise, how to rule, how to run, how to reign, how to take my five loaves and two fishes to God for miraculous multiplication, how to live in that miraculous realm permanently, how to have dominion there and how to keep myself humble and God first through it all.

I got a new job as the Head of Project Delivery, part of the Executive Leadership Team at a city firm this year, a whole ten years younger than the next person in the same position. This would not have been possible had I have been in any other church. I have discovered, developed and deployed in Christ since I have been at New Wine Church these last three years in a phenomenal way and I know you would be so proud of me  (and btw – I have no intention of slowing that down)!

I won’t let God down Pastor. I promise you! The last three years will be the preceding level set. And I promise you that I will never allow myself to achieve less in any three year period than I did under your tutelage these last three years. I will be great! And I will mark my name on this earth in an even greater way than you did, just like you instructed me to!

I’m going to miss you Pastor Tayo, but you told us to so we Go Forward. You laid your life down as a seed which will never be wasted so we will proceed on the sacrifice of your life and by the time we next see, the seed of your heart will be a rainforest of souls saved, on the mountains, bringing the mind, heart and rule of Christ and influencing the earth.

Enjoy the rest you have so well deserved and I’ll see you when I’m done.

I love you, forever.
Your Faith-full Daughter
Isabelle.x