Happy birthday to a Kingdom Giant, Akinyele Regional Superintendent, Pastor Yusuff
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| Pastor M.O. Yusuff |
By ‘Gbenga Bankole
As Christ Apostolic Church,
Worldwide is preparing to celebrate her 100th anniversary, there are ministers of God the history book of the church cannot forget. This is due to
their enviable track records and unquantifiable contributions to the progress
of the work of God. The pioneer Regional Superintendent of Akinyele Region,Pastor Moses Olaniyi Yusuff is one of those ministers.
Pastor Yusuff is a voice in CAC
Worldwide and a spiritual father to so many spiritual giants. The tremendous impact
of his calling is yet speaking in the lives of many today.
Baba Yusuff as he is fondly
called, belongs to a generation of ministers who do not see church planting as a task, but an hobby. CAC NEWS celebrates this distinguished minister of God
par excellence on this memorable day.
HIS BIOGRAPHY
Pastor Moses Olaniyi Yusuff was born into the family of an
Imam, Pa Yusuff Ani, an Islamic scholar with his own Arabic School and Mrs.
Afusatu Yusuff of Ile-Oke, Molete Onju Iwo in Osun state on 1st
August, 1945.
He started his academic carrier at the age of four in
Islamic School Aba nla Isero in 1949. It was the free education programme of
the Late Chief Obefemi Awolowo in 1955 that brought him to Methodist Primary
School, Isero.
He had his conversion in 1956 at the Methodist Primary
School, Isero. At the knowledge of his conversion, he was sent to Local
Authority Primary School. The spiritual juggernaut was with his uncle who was a
Moslem and primary school teacher, from where he was finally withdrawn from
Methodist Primary School and sent to Ansar-Ur-deen Primary School, Araromi, Iwo
where he finished his primary six in 1960.
He worked briefly as a Petrol Attendant and Butcher from
1960 to 1963. He moved to Lagos to learn Bricklaying in 1964. He learnt this
vocation from Alfa Lamidi Fasasi at Adegbola Street, off Kayode Street, Igbobi.
At this time, the seed of the gospel that was sown started to germinate and
growing in Christ Apostolic Church, 28, Igi Olugbin Street, now permanently
located at 18, Kajola Street, Bariga, Lagos under the shepherdship of Pastor
G.A. Adunbarin, the planter of the church. At this time, he joined the Choir,
Ushers, Light of the World Society which was that known as Prayer Warriors.
CALL INTO MINISTRY
Pastor Yusuff was called into the ministry in 1965. He underwent
discipleship training under the then District Superintendent, Pastor M.O.
Agbede of CAC Ikoyi Ayedaade District for one and half years. He then got
admission of CAC Bible Training College, Akure, but did not go. Instead, he
went to LIFE Bible College from January 1970 to 29th October, 1972
where he graduated and obtained Diploma in Theology. Before his graduation from
LIFE Theological Seminary, Ikorodu, he was directed by the Lord to go to CAC to
organize the Sunday School.
At his graduation, he moved straight to where God had sent
him at the expense of the opportunity of serving in Foursquare Gospel Church in
Nigeria and under his Pastor in Bariga, Lagos.
HE WORKED AS AN
EVANGELIST
Pastor Yusuff started Sunday School in Iwo in 1973 under the
leadership of Late Pastor S.A. Oniwinde who later took him to the then CAC
President, Late Pastor E.T. Latunde, who allowed him to organize Sunday School
in Il-Ife in May 1973.
After the Ile-Ife programme, the Sunday School was
introduced to all Pastors in their conference held at Agege in 1973. The Sunday
School organization took him to Osogbo , Bauchi, Kano, Mushin District in 1974,
Akure, Idanre, Owo and later Port-Harcourt in 1975 under the leadership of the
District Superintendent, Pastor Ogunniyi. A church was planted in Rumumasi,
Port-Harcourt in 1976.
Later in the year, the first National Sunday School Rally
was held in Ile-Ife under the then President Late Pastor E.T. Latunde. He was
appointed the first National Sunday School Organising Secretary, the office he
did occupy because of his admission to ECWA Bible College, Aba, then Imo State,
now Ebonyi state.
Thereafter, he was transferred to CAC Sunday School
department under the leadership of late Pastor E.H.L. Olusheye in Akure in
1981, after his four years course in Aba.
ORDINATION: He
was ordained in September 1981, at CAC Oke Isegun, Irowo, Akure.
HE WORKED AS
PASTOR/LECTURER
He served as the Head of Children Unit in CAC Sunday School
Department. He organized programmes for children in Akure, Owo, Ile-Ife,
Ado-Ekiti and other towns in CAC Worldwide.
He later proceeded to Obafemi Awolowo University in 1986
where he obtained Bachelor of Arts Degree in Religious Studies. He graduated in
1990 and went back to Sunday School Department.
Pastor Yusuff was then transferred to CAC Theological
Seminary in April 1991 to assume duty in September, 1991. The cleric went to
Nigeria Institute of Journalism, Ogba, Lagos in 1994/1995 where he obtained a
Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism.
He was elevated from a Lecturer to the status of the
Coordinator of all infrastructural development in CAC Theological Seminary.
HE WORKED AS DISTRICT
SUPERINTENDENT
Pastor Yusuff was
promoted to District Superintendent in 1993. He was in Seminary as a lecturer
from 1991 to May 1, 1996 and was transferred to CAC Grace Tabernacle as the
first District Superintendent till 1st of June, 2004.
He spent eight years and twenty-eight days in CAC Grace
Tabernacle District in the old Lagos Districts Coordinating Council. He served
as a member of the Publicity Board and later became the chairman of the Publicity
Board in the year 1999.
He was transferred to CAC Ketu District on 1st of
June, 2004.
He was the third District Superintendent of CAC Ketu
District and became the first Chairman of CAC Ketu Zone on 1st
November, 2007 and CAC Ketu DCC Superintendent in March 2014 to 31st
December, 2017. He was promoted as Akinyele Regional Superintendent with effect
from January 1ST, 2018.
A FAMILY MAN
Pastor Yusuff is happily married to a wonderfully made
companion in the person of Mrs. Mary Adeola Yusuff and they are blessed with
glorious children all vibrantly partaking in the ministry.
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