LARRY TITUS TO "IMPART AND RELEASE"

"...Yes, I owe my initial involvement in this ministry to my then pastor at CCIC Ikeja Centre, Rev Ajibola Oluyede who identified a potential and then to my senior pastor and coach without whom the potential may never have had a platform to grow. Of course, there was the ubiquitous Ed Cole late founder of Christian Men’s Network, whose teachings and books laid the foundation for me. Pastor Larry, however, unknown to him, helped to deepen that interest and shape it."

Kingdom Covenant Ministries’ Rehoboth Christian Centre in Port Harcourt is the venue of this year’s Kingdom Global Ministries’ second Africa Conference opening on Wednesday. Also styled as Leadership Summit 2013 with Larry Titus, the five-day gathering of ministers from various churches and ministries affiliated with KGM all over the continent and leaders otherwise interested, has the theme, Impart and Release.

Yours sincerely plans to be there, by the grace of God, for two reasons. First, the conference has been offered to us as a platform to formally present the book, The Teleios Man, written by the International President of KGM and lead speaker at the conference and published for West Africa by KP Books, which I have the privilege of serving.

Second, it will be an opportunity for me to hear one of the most respected pastors in the United States and several parts of the world, talk about and demonstrate a topic that many a leader in Christendom has found difficult to deal with. I’ll come back to it presently.

Let me tell you a bit about Larry Titus, the one many in many people, particularly men in several countries including Nigeria like to call “Dad Larry.”  I became acquainted with him in 2001, when on the invitation of my senior pastor, Rev Dr Tunde Joda, he was one of the lead speakers at the Christ Chapel International Churches’ (CCIC)  International Men’s Conference.  The conference, which held in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, was the very first, to my knowledge, of its kind in the country. The theme was Mighty Man of Valour. It held under the auspices of CCIC’s men’s fellowship then known as Champions For Christ (CFC) and I had the honour of chairing the organising team.

The simplicity of the man, his lack of theatrics, the profundity of his message all helped to deepen my interest in men’s ministry. Yes, I owe my initial involvement in this ministry to my then pastor at CCIC Ikeja Centre, Rev Ajibola Oluyede who identified a potential and then to my senior pastor and coach without whom the potential may never have had a platform to grow. Of course, there was the ubiquitous Ed Cole late founder of Christian Men’s Network, whose teachings and books laid the foundation for me. Pastor Larry, however, unknown to him, helped to deepen that interest and shape it.

It took the whole of ten years before I ever got to meet him again, thanks to a post on the Facebook wall of Rev Rotimi Osoba, an erstwhile CCIC pastor who went on to found and runs Heaven on Earth Ministries. One thing led to the other and I came face-to-face again with this wonderful man of God, two years ago.

But all of that is my story, not his! Now his:

Last year Larry Titus celebrated his 50^th year in full time ministry. He spent the first 34 of those years in what has been widely accepted as effective and innovative pastoral ministry in the US states of Washington, Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio, some of those through Foursquare Gospel Mission International. He left in 2001 to devote himself to the mission of Kingdom Global Ministries, an organization he had founded nine years earlier.

KGM, as I have since found out is a unique ministry targeted at leaders, globally. It seeks to “relationally recognize, resource, and release the vision of global leaders”; combining “discipleship principles with kingdom priorities so the Gospel can be proclaimed with power and effectiveness throughout the world”.

Through the ministry and even prior to it, Larry Titus has trained thousands of men and women to become godly leaders in every aspects of life and living including marriages, and ministries. He uses what he calls the “Teleios” principle, making Jesus the pattern for all leadership training, to produce in men the qualities that ensure fruitfulness in their families and effectiveness in their lives.

Larry has influenced and equipped leaders in dozens of nations. His commitment to global missions has also resulted in thousands of churches, schools, orphanages, and Bible schools being established and sustained on every continent.

KGM and Larry sponsor two events: Teleios Men’s Summit, a relational gathering of men to edify them with teachings and testimonies in an atmosphere of worship, which holds annually and; KGM World Connect, which brings global leaders and business people together every two years for the purpose of networking and resourcing their visions.  

Larry Titus’ imprint wherever he goes is Love. Within a short time of meeting him, you feel loved by him - somehow, he makes that evident. And once you know him, you get to love him. It’s uncanny.

Now that is the man, who, with support from Pastor Frank Aikins, KGM’s Africa President and his wife, Dr Elfleda Aikins, is gathering leaders from across the continent with a view to imparting and releasing them into their destiny. You can be sure the conference cannot but have a salutary impact on the Kingdom of God on earth. Add to that the official launch of the Teleios Man, the most comprehensive single volume book for men ever and the very first to be published in Nigeria for the West African market. Men’s ministry will never be the same again.