Pastor Tayo Adeyemi
By Ugonnaya Nwachukwu
“Praise God for the things that He'll do in the future. Have no doubt in your mind of His goodness and faithfulness towards you.” Those were the last words tweeted by Pastor Tayo Adeyemi - the Founder of New Wine Church who died Sunday afternoon at a hospital in England.
According to sources, Pastor Tayo Adeyemi popularly known as Dr Tayo Adeyemi battled stroke for a while before passing away at the age of 48. The highly influential leader and motivational speaker is survived by a wife and three children.
Tayo Adeyemi was born in Leeds, England to Nigerian parents and had left England, at an early age, for Nigeria where he had all his formal education and graduated as a medical doctor.
He received Jesus Christ as Lord and personal Saviour as a young boy in 6th grade and received the call of God upon his life while doing a summer vacation job in 1981.
While in medical school at the University of Ibadan, Tayo was instrumental in founding a students’ fellowship, which grew to a movement of more than 3,000 students in well over 30 Nigerian Universities and colleges in a space of five years. He was also actively involved in starting three chapters of the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship in different parts of the country.
He returned to England with the intention of pursuing a residency programme in General Surgery and later, Neurosurgery. It was in the midst of this pursuit that God called him to start New Wine Church, which has now grown to a strong congregation of approximately 2,500 members in the London Borough of Greenwich.
Tayo was recognised as one of the strong leaders of the 21st century church and as a significant prophetic voice in the United Kingdom. He communicated God’s word with such sharp prophetic insight that his ministry had helped shape the destiny of many churches across the earth. His visionary leadership made New Wine Church one of the leading dynamic churches in the UK..
Alongside pastoring a church, Tayo’s ministry was highly sought after around the world; and he addressed well over 300 audiences every year.
He had been through series of issues in recent times from divorce with his first wife - Tinu, to marriage to a member of his choir. However, throughout his life, Tayo believed that God has deposited something inside everyone; and motivates people to discover, develop and deploy the gifts that God has placed within them for his own glory.
Pastor Adeyemi’s burial arrangements will be announced soon.