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Paul Adeolu Adefarasin (born 25 January 1963) is a Nigerian pastor and televangelist. He is the Prelate and Metropolitan Senior Pastor of the House on the Rock church headquartered in Lagos (Nigeria) with branches in several cities across Nigeria including Port-harcourt and Abuja, as well as in Johannesburg, South Africa and London, UK. He is also the Convener and Host of The Experience (gospel concert).




Early life


Adefarasin was raised primarily in Nigeria. Though raised with a traditional Christian background, after he moved to the United States aged in his early twenties, to pursue tertiary education away from his family in the early-1980s, he became engaged with substance abuse for three years, something he openly confesses left him empty inside, prior to him eventually becoming born again.




Career


Adefarasin attended St Saviour's School in Ikoyi, and Igbobi College in Yaba. His secondary school education was in Haileybury College in England. He went on to study at the University of Miami, graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture. Whilst practicing what he studied in Florida, he served in a volunteer capacity as a youth pastor, before eventually leaving America to return to Nigeria on his birthday in January 1990.
Within days of returning to Nigeria in January 1990, random members of a local church in Lagos proceeded to invite him over. Their resident pastor would later get a witness in his heart that Adefarasin would serve in any capacity, which he duly obliged for just under a year. Then Adefarasin was subsequently asked by another Christian leader to become the resident pastor of a U.K. church, so he travelled to U.K. where he received his first pastorate at the Action Chapel, London, subsequently serving there for three years and taking the church from about 17 people to just under 500 ardent worshippers. In the process he was studying at the International Bible Institute of London where he eventually received a Diploma in Christian Ministry.
Towards the ending of 1993, Adefarasin as a returnee from America and England, went back to Lagos, Nigeria, in an attempt to obtain his permit renewal from the U.K. High Commission, and to go back to England to continue pastoring the Action Chapel. However this process of acquiring his permit renewal remained strangely deferred, leading to him humbly returning back to Nigeria for good, where the following year under inspiration from God, he would later found alongside a couple others in July 1994, the House on the Rock Church in Lagos, Nigeria.




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Adefarasin has written, authored, and self-published over 20 motivational Christian mini-books and multimedia resources. Three of his books have been published by Christian book publishers and distributors.




Personal life


In June 1995, Adefarasin married Ifeanyi Adefarasin (born 16 September 1972), a former beauty queen and now a respected minister and conference speaker well known for her clear and practical message of hope and empowerment. Together, they have three children.
As of 2023, Adefarasin credits T.D. Jakes as his mentor and spiritual father.




References

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• Sinach
• Little Fockers
• Sliding Doors
• Prestasi Menakjubkan dalam Sinematografi dalam Perilisan Teatrikal (American Society of Cinematographers Award)
• Academy Award untuk Sinematografi Terbaik
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• House on the Rock (church)
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• Emmanuel Iren
• The Bible Experience
• List of pastors in Nigeria
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