The Deeper Life Bible Church is a multinational Bible Based Holiness Church. A Church that started in 1973 at Lagos Nigeria with 15 people, under the leadership of its founder and the General Superintendent – Pastor Dr. William F. Kumuyi. The Church has since grown into millions of people with branches all over Africa, Europe, Asia, Middle East, and over 90 branches in the United States of America.
Pastor William Kumuyi is a renowned Preacher, Teacher, Evangelist, Revivalist, Trainer, and Pastor with a rare combination of God’s Grace in his Apostolic, Evangelical and Pentecostal calling. His unwavering resolve to holiness and righteousness is one of the major reasons why this ministry has stood out distinctively and continues to prosper. Under this ministry, we have recorded countless salvation of souls and the outpouring of God’s power with evident testimonies and verifiable miracles where the lame, the blind, barren, jobless, demonic, and other sick and diseased people have been healed. Surely, the Church history will not be complete without the likes of Pastor William Kumuyi.
Pastor Kumuyi’s own Christian life developed because he took the Bible so seriously, and so the Deeper Christian Life Ministry has developed in the same way. In Alan Isaacson’s own words, he “preached Deeper Life into existence”. His sermons were captivating, wrote Isaacson, “I would classify him as one of the greatest living preachers, giving a straightforward Bible-based message, his sermons thorough, and always personally challenging. He always gave a wide range of cross-references which were read in their context, supporting, clarifying and expanding his main points. He spoke clearly and authoritatively to the Nigerian situation. He dealt sensitively with African culture, but also made a firm stand in highlighting the points where local culture was incompatible with the will of God. While stressing the high moral tone which is one of the virtues of most African cultures at their best, he was at pains to specify those aspects of local culture which were unchristian and even evil. In this way he was not only concerned with some kind of personal holiness, but also genuinely seeking the wholeness and harmony of the community at large, where truth, honesty, and justice should be the predominant characteristics.