Meet Pastor Dami

Damilola Oguntunde is a Pastor, Author, and Life Coach with a heart for people. Learn about his journey, his passion for ministry, and his mission to inspire and transform lives through the power of God’s word and proven human development techniques.

The Early Years

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Growing up, I was a very timid child, and it was not unfounded because I had a condition that caused sores to appear on my legs. This made me feel like an outcast, and I avoided others, convinced no one would want to spend time with me. Despite my long-standing attendance at church, I lacked a personal relationship with God and His Word. However, there was a turning point when I began reading the Bible more consistently. Through this, I discovered God’s immense love for me, which transformed my self-perception and ignited a passion for fellowship and the Word—I had found God, and I had found His opinion about me.

As I grew in my faith, I became involved in my school’s fellowship at Federal Government College Odogbolu, the Chapel of His Excellent Spirit, where I took on various leadership roles. During these years, we organised daily devotions in which we would give ourselves an exhortation and someone would preach among us. Those were the days of little beginnings when I learnt how to do exhortations and encourage others through the Word.

This experience, coupled with my involvement in my home church, grew me in the knowledge of God’s Word. By the time I was admitted into the university, I was vast in the Word and actively participated in the University Joint Christian Mission, OAU (UJCM) predegree student fellowship, where I served as the assistant technical coordinator. Then in my first year, God told me I had to focus solely on Him, and this caused me to become even more studious; I gave myself entirely to the Word of God, to studying, and to prayers.

Still, in university, I connected with Pastor Tolu Moody, who became my mentor and helped establish me within the fellowship he pastored, Christ Ambassadors Students’ Outreach (CASOR). By my third year, I was ordained as the pastor of CASOR on the 29th of May, 2011, and I had just turned 21 on the 15th of April. It was one of the most incredible events of my life, but I was also overwhelmed by the sheer divergence between my reality and the expectation of the role as the pastor, so I started asking God for help, and He did help me.

Through prayer and reliance on God, I learnt valuable lessons about ministry, leadership, and building people. My tenure lasted three and a half years, and the Lord took a lot of glory from this season in my life.

After leaving CASOR, I went through another intense season of processing and training under various pastors and ministry gifts, including Pastor (Rev) Peter Ayo Alabi of Heritage of Faith Church, Lagos; Pastor Sunday Ogidigbo of Holy Hill Church, Abuja; Pastor Ose Imiemohon of The Brook Church, Calabar, Cross River.

In 2017, I submitted officially to Pastor Dele Osunmakinde as a spiritual father, having known him for about 5 years when I invited him to CASOR in 2012. Following God’s guidance, I served under his ministry and was ordained as a pastor in 2019, tasked with pioneering The PowerPoint Tribe in Yaba, Lagos.

Now, it has been 14 years since I was ordained as a Pastor on Campus, and 5 years of actively pastoring God’s people at The PowerPoint Tribe. Doing this has been an honour, and I believe this is just the beginning of what God is set to do in and through me.

“Your visibility and audibility is a sickle. It is a tool and strategy to get the world to listen to a God worth paying attention to - Dami Oguntunde.”

Why I do what I do

To raising a generation and transforming lives through the redemptive power of Christ and inspiring purposeful living

Pastor Dami's guidance has been a beacon of light in my life. I am forever grateful for his wisdom and support.

- Renee Wells

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