WHO WE ARE
Jesus Embassy Los Angeles is a community of people learning to live for Christ and to serve others. JELA is committed to raising family where love, prayer, and praises lift up the name of Jesus. In unity, JELA strive towards holiness, demonstrating order and discipline as a part of Jesus' Army.
JELA is a branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), a world-wide Church devoted to living holy, teaching, studying, and applying Bible truths to all life situations.
Through training and development, JELA nurtures Christian leaders, who will shine through the darkness of this present generation.
OUR CORE BELIEFS
We believe that there is only one true God. Isaiah 54:4
We believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and He is God. Romans 1:4, John 10:30
We believe that Jesus Christ was born of the virgin, Mary. Luke 1:26-38, Luke 2:6-7
We believe that Jesus Christ lived on Earth as a man. Philippians 2:6-11
We believe that Jesus Christ was crucified to save us from our sins. John 3:16
We believe that Jesus Christ rose again, and He lives forevermore. Matthew 28:6
We believe that faith in Jesus Christ is only way to Heaven. John 14:6
Jesus Embassy Los Angeles is a parish of RCCG.
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GENERAL OVERSEER
Fondly known as G.O or Daddy G.O, Pastor Adeboye became the General Overseer (G.O) of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in 1981.
Sheer curiosity and the search for a solution to a personal problem led Pastor Adeboye to worship at RCCG – Ebute-Metta in 1973. It was a most unlikely place of worship for a professor of Mathematics as the church had very few educated people and it lacked the comfort and grandeur of the Orthodox churches.
God took RCCG to greater glory with the birth of the Holy Ghost Services, which started in the late 80s.
It is a service of intense worship and manifestation of signs and wonders. 1998 saw the birth of the annual Holy Ghost Festival. Billed Lekki ’98, an estimated 4 million people gathered to fellowship, praise and pray during an all night service. It is conceivably the largest gathering of Christians in the world.
As Pastor Adeboye frequently testifies, the Lord has just started with RCCG.In his own words, “We are believing the Almighty God that very soon, in every town, in every village all over the world, there would be a parish of The Redeemed Christian Church of God established where people could be saved, discipled and trained in the fear of the Lord. So that on the last day, we would have people of all races, from all tribes, from all tongues, praising the Almighty God who had been brought in the Kingdom of God on the Platform of The Redeemed Christian Church of God.”
His desire to reach the ends of the earth is captured in this statement, “I would love to have a breakthrough to such a height that I can lend to nations and preach on every television and radio station at least one hour per day.”
OUR PASTORS
Pastor Niran Fafowora, Lead Pastor
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Pastor Idowu Olaniran Fafowora trained primarily as a Structural Engineer and practiced the profession actively for 25 years before the Lord called him into full time ministry.
He is passionate about training and equipping people for a new global order (people who must truly occupy and dominate until He returns) and leading governments and organizations towards reformation of the society. Consequently, the major emphasis of his doctoral program is Organizational Leadership.
Pastor Fafowora is a life member and Senator of Junior Chambers International (JCI), an organization he served for over ten years as a Trainer of Trainers. He is also a life Member of The Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship International (FGBMFI) where he served as an Organizer and Trainer of The Advance Leadership Training Seminars (ALTS) program for five years. He is a scholar of Pastor Jack Hayford’s School of Pastoral Nurture.
In the year 2002, Pastor Fafowora became an alumnus of the famous Haggai Institute, an internationally acclaimed center for advance leadership training and development of Christian Leaders located in Maui, Hawaii, USA. His ultimate experience at Haggai Institute as a certified and commissioned Trainer of Christian Leaders motivated his desire to evolve Leaderskills Inc., USA, (www.leaderskills.org) - Institute of Leadership Training, Development and Empowerment for the benefit of Christian leaders and organizations. Pastor Fafowora is also the President and Chief Facilitator of The Open Pulipt (theopenpulpit.org), a tool of social media he uses to advance the course of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pastor Fafowora is happily married to Pastor Oluwatoyin Fafowora, and they are blessed with five wonderful daughters.
Pastor Toyin Fafowora, Co-Pastor
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5:30am, April 1, 1988. I sat up in my narrow, white hospital bed and shouted, “I am born again.” The ward staff glanced up curiously, and then continued their early morning routines. I repeated the glorious statement to each person who came to my bedside that morning, until I got the reaction I desired. My friend and colleague, Ronke, stopped by on her way to ward rounds. When I said, “I am born again!” she clapped her hands, did a little dance, and yelled jubilantly. I nodded, satisfied. She understood.
Born again! The greatest thing in my life, and the best thing that ever happened to me. I did not work to receive it. I did not deserve it. No. But in the night hours, as the month of March 1988 waned away, God spoke to my heart, and opened my eyes to see His Truth. I woke up to a New Life. A New Beginning. A New Way. I passed from death to life, from darkness to light, from enmity against God to sonship in Him. I did not become perfect. No. But I became his son and I am growing more and more like Him daily.
Over the next few months, God healed me of the typhoid fever that took me to hospital. He healed me of asthma and hemorrhoids, which had plagued me for many years. My medical career took a new upward swing. I was a new, happier, free person. My relationship with my husband became fresher and more exciting. We had one daughter, and we wanted more children, but for four years, nothing happened. My husband became born again in 1992, and we had four other wonderful daughters in the next four years! God is still working wonders in our lives today as I write.
Pastor Oluwatoyin Fafowora, M.D., Ph.D. studied medicine at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She proceeded to a residency in Ophthalmology, followed by a Glaucoma Fellowship at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Nigeria. She worked at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, and returned to UCH as Assistant Professor, and subsequently Associate Professor. She moved to the United States to join her husband in ministry in 2000.
She further completed a doctorate degree in Epidemiology (with a minor in genomics) at UCLA. She worked at the prestigious Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA, then as a Principal Investigator with the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Maryland, followed by a stint as a consultant in the eye care section of the global pharmaceutical company Allergan. Subsequently, she was a consultant with the eye care device manufacturing company Staar Inc, in Monrovia CA, before entering full-time ministry at Jesus Embassy.
She is happily married to Pastor Olaniran Fafowora, Ph.D. and they are blessed with five wonderful daughters.