Biography of Pastor Matthew Oluwadare Adu
He was born in Ilawe, Ekiti State, on January 9, 1954. From age twelve, he did his confirmation in the Catholic Church and became a church server, in the days of white priests. On December 24, 1978, he heard the gospel and gave his life to Jesus Christ. Not quite long after, his passion for evangelism and prayers became noticeable to people. In his quest to know more, having had an encounter that led to his sanctification experience in April 1980, he joined a Bible-believing interdenominational ministry (which later became a full church) for their weekly meetings: Monday Bible study and Thursday Faith School, as it was called then (they were not holding Sunday services then). He later founded the Tabon-tabon witnessing team, an evangelistic outreach. God used this group to win many souls in the Agege area, some of whom are doing well for God in different churches today.

Following a strong persecution in the church he was attending then, he was counselled to leave the church to avoid bitterness against his persecutors, who would stop at nothing to make him stop going to the Bible study and disband the evangelistic outreach. The evangelistic outreach grew bigger in the middle of 1980 when it metamorphosed into a ministry called The Christian Called Out Ministry, Agege, holding Bible study and revival hour and coming together on Sundays for only Sunday school before going out for soulwinning. In 1983, this evangelical ministry he started was later merged with the other ministry he was attending, and the interdenominational ministry later became a church. God used this church to groom and prepare him for the days ahead.