By Oluwagbenga Bankole
"Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's
about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results,
influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have
to inspire team-mates and customers," says Robin S. Sharma.
The amiable and intuitive President of our beloved church,
Pastor Samuel Olusegun Oladele is in the category of leaders who made positive
and unquantifiable impacts in their generation, particularly in the lives of
people. Majority of well-known ministers of God in CAC this day passed through
him when they were in Seminary. He thought most of them.
Good leaders are trailblazers, making a path for others to
follow. Great leaders, however, inspire their people to reach higher, dream
bigger, and achieve greater. Perhaps the most important leadership skill you
can develop is the ability to provide inspiration to your team.
Pastor Oladele is well known for his teaching prowess and
ability dish out the undiluted word of God in a unique way. You can easily
identify him whenever he is teaching even if you're not watching him. This is
due to his command of English language and fluent Yoruba intonation
Pastor Oladele was born on Tuesday, the 30th of August, 1955
at about 9.50 am in the small village of Alagbagba in Odeda Local Government
Area of Ogun State to Late Pa Gabriel and Madam Alice Oladele.
He attended CAC Primary School, Alagbagba and at a very
tender age of 14 entered into the ministry by training locally under the late
Pastors J. B. Akande and J. O. Ogundiran
respectively. He went to the CAC Bible Training College in Akure and graduated
in 1974, having trained under late Mrs. O. O. A. Pearce and Pastor M. O.
Faloye. Upon the completion of his studies, he was retained on the staff list
of the CAC Bible Training College where he worked as a tutor until 1977 when he
left Nigeria for the United Kingdom where he attended The International Bible
Training Institute in Burgess-Hill, West Sussex.
The Cleric returned to Nigeria in 1980 to join CAC Theological
Seminary as a tutor until 1983 when he left for the United States of America.
While in the USA he trained further in the following
schools:
(i)Berean Bible College, San-Diego, California
(ii)St. Louis Christian College, Florissant, Missouri
(iii)International Bible Institute and Seminary in Plymouth,
Florida where he obtained a Master’s Degree in Theology.
(iv)Haggai Institute for Advanced Leadership Training in Singapore.
He had worked as an Assembly Pastor at:
(a)CAC Oke-Imole,
Ijeshatedo under Itire DCC, Lagos.
(b)CAC Agbokojo in Ibadan.
Promoted a District Superintendent November 1991 and seved
in that capacity at:
(i)CAC Sanngo District, Ibadan.
(ii)CAC Oke-Igbala District, Efon-Alaaye
(iii)CAC Eleta District in Ibadan.
Promoted an Assistant General Superintendent in 1996 and
became a Chairman in 2002.
Posted to CAC Oke-Ado DCC as Chairman January 2004 where he remained till his promotion as the General Superintendent elect of Christ Apostolic Church in 2016.
He is married to Mrs. Susanna Kehinde Oladele (Nee Olawade) and blessed
with four sons.
APPOINTMENT AS PRESIDENT
Pastor Oladele was appointed as the President of CAC Nigeria
and Overseas on Thursday October 15, 2020 and resumed officially on January
1st, 2021.