Baptist leadership
Rev. Julius Omomola, Rev. Matthew Awujoola and his wife, Janet, and Rev. Emmanuel Awotunde, moments after Dr. Awujoola assumed office as Conference President, Lagos East Baptist Conference
Dr. Matthew Awujoola has assumed the leadership of the Lagos East Baptist Conference, one of the three Lagos State Baptist Conferences.
He took over from Dr. Emmanuel Awotunde on May 1, 2020
Awotunde has been in the saddle since September 2010.
An author, he is gifted in teaching, exhortation and leadership. A trained teacher, Awujoola who was born in Mushin, Lagos State hails from Ilero in Kajola local government area of Oyo State and gave his life to Christ in 1986.
He obtained a National Certificate of Education from the Lagos State College of Education, Oto-Ijanikin in 1996. He later trained at the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso where he bagged a Bachelor of Theology and Master of Art in Theological Studies in 2002 and 2011 respectively. He is an alumnus of Administrative Staff College of Nigeria, Topo, Badagry.
The new president obtained a Doctor of Ministry degree from the African International University, Nairobi, Kenya in 2018.
Dr. Awujoola has served the Lord in different leadership positions in the Baptist family including president and Bible study coordinator, at different times, of the Baptist Student Fellowship, Lagos State College of Education, Oto-Ijanikin; student pastor, First Baptist Church, Atapa, via Iresa Adu, Oyo State between 1999 and 2002; church pastor, Ajara Baptist Church, Ajara, Lagos State; chairman Pastors Fellowship of Itesiwaju Baptist Association, financial secretary and vice chairman of the Lagos East Baptist Conference Pastors’ Fellowship.
Until his appointment, he was the church pastor of Ire Akari Baptist Church, Isolo where he has been serving since August 2010 and moderator, Itesiwaju Baptist Association, one of the associations in the Lagos East Baptist Conference.
Dr. Awujoola is married to Janet Omolara, a trained teacher and they are blessed with two children, Testimony Eniola-Oluwa and Prevail Anjola-Oluwa.