About Pastor (Dr.) Tope Ade

BACKGROUND

Pastor Tope as she is fondly called by many was raised in an upper-middle-class religious home
in Lagos Nigeria. She attended a Catholic Convent School for her Elementary and High school
education. She became baptized in the Anglican Church at the age of 3 and was also confirmed
in the Anglican Church. She developed a passion for the Word of God by watching her maternal
grandmother, Felicia, read the Bible daily and tell her stories from the Bible. Her mother,
Matilda, later bought her the Golden Children’s Bible which became her favourite book.

As a child, she participated in several Bible Trivia Contests and at the age of 12 became very
fascinated with the Book of Revelation and memorized many chapters of the Book. Pastor Tope
has a curious mind with a love for books.

EDUCATION

During her final year in high school, one of her teachers told her about the plan of God for
salvation and she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior in June 1984. Pastor Tope
received the baptism of the Holy Spirit in 1987.

She has been serving in the Church since the age of 10 and in 1987, one of her friends asked her
why she was always in church and wondered if she was going to be a pastor. Pastor Tope responded, “I just love God and love to be in His house because that’s where I find
fulfilment.”

Pastor Tope has a Doctor of Ministry degree from Oral Roberts University.
College of Theology and Ministry, Tulsa Oklahoma, a Master of Divinity Degree also from Oral
Roberts University College of Theology and Ministry, and a Master of Arts in Human Services
Counselling Degree from Regent University College of Psychology and Counseling, Virginia
Beach, VA., and a Bachelor of Education (English) degree from Lagos State University in 1990.

She has served the Body of Christ in various ministries and joined the Redeemed Christian
Church of God in 1993 as a Christian worker and was commissioned as a minister in 1996 and
ordained into ministry in Tallahassee Florida in May 1997 under the apostolic leadership of
Pastor E. A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God
worldwide.

She has served at various levels as a Christian Education Administrator, Bible
Teacher, Pastoral Care Leader, Church planter and parish pastor. She planted and served as the
Senior Pastor of Daystar Worship Center, in Rosenberg, Texas (A mission of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God), from March 2003 to July 2009.

MINISTRY

In August 2008, the Lord spoke to her about a new assignment and in preparation for the new
assignment, she had to go to the Seminary. The vision for Liberation Call Christian Ministries
was birthed during that encounter with the Lord and He reminded her of the Word He spoke to
her in New York in August 1995 and said it was time to arise and begin to fulfil it. In obedience
to God, she handed over the Church she pastored in July 2009 and her family relocated from
Sugarland Texas to Prosper a suburb of Dallas, Texas. In her journey of faith, she has been in the
valley, she has been on the mountain but has anchored her faith and hope on Jesus Christ, the
Solid Rock.

As the Lead Pastor of The Freedom Place, A Virtual Gathering, Pastor Tope loves Jesus Christ
and is not ashamed to be identified with Him. She is determined to walk in God’s Word daily and grow to become like Jesus Christ. Her passion is to see other believers walk in the
truth of the Word and to be liberated by the power of the Holy Spirit. She is committed to discipleship by teaching and preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations.

She is a Spirit-empowered teacher and an intellectually curious lifelong learner and student of the
Word, who believes in expounding the truth in the Word, is a preacher and an author and she
is eager to see God’s Kingdom established on the earth. She is a woman of faith and a praying
woman who delights in seeing God restore lives and bring transformation through the power of
His Word and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Her hobbies are reading, writing, baking, gourmet
cooking, gardening, painting and travelling.

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