Between Tuesday 4th and Sunday 9th November, Pastor Kehinde Bamidele will be playing hosts to fellow ministers of God and the general public in another historic convention of his Church, Our Community Church Inc. located at 1, Unity Close, Off Alimoso area of Iyana Ipaja, Lagos. The Convention with the theme Higher Glory is set to have a host of word and music ministers like Apostle Ben. Eragbai and Pastor Blessing Olamijulo, while Praise Machine and Minister Obi Charles join the host Choir to minister in melodious God-exalting music. PTL News was with Pastor Kehinde who spoke passionately about the convention and his City Mandate Summit for leaders from different walks of life on Saturday of the Convention, 8th November, 2025.
What do you have for the participants comprising your Church members and the general public about your coming Church Convention?
This is the 24th Convention of the Church. Higher Glory, which is the theme of the convention is something we are just introducing, to usher us into our Silver Jubilee next year. The Church is experiencing a new dimension of the operations in the spirit. We are just trying to match up to what God has set out to do currently by the grace of God. This year’s convention is a beginning of a new height in our ministry and our personal life.
What is the Convention really about as earlier asked?
The convention having Higher Glory as the theme will be running from Tuesday, 4th to Sunday 9th November, with Pastor Blessing Olamijulo on Wednesday, and Apostle Ben Eragbai on Thursday evening and Friday night as guest ministers.
Then come the City Mandate Summit on Saturday. This one is very dear to my heart, that will be on Saturday. God has been using us to affect so many leaders across the globe but I have not established a system where I have ministers having the same effect of what God is doing with me outside the country.
That Saturday we will be birthing a new concept in Nigeria, we call it City Mandate Summit, and the summit is to host leaders across all walks of life not just Church or Christian leaders. They will be gathered to let them have a feel of what I have been teaching to leaders in all parts of the world. It is on transformational leadership. We believe if the man is transformed, cities will be transformed, if man is transformed, families will be transformed, and if the man is transformed, nations will be transformed. We believe man is not an accident in the city. At the same time, the Church is not an accident in the city.
God deliberately plant man and the Church because of the city. Your ministry is useless if there is no effect in the city, because there will not be need for the church if there is no city. City Mandate Summit is a kind of doing some reawakening where every everybody will begin to have a feeling that they have a mission to the city either as a pastor or a private entity in the community and in all areas of life. That is what we are trying to do.
Like a pastor friend who was with me recently said it was a very unique calling, but I told him it’s not that it has not been heard of but it has not got to this level.
I have a mentor in Professor Vincent Anigbogu who is the director general of the Institute for National Transformation. That man encouraged me and gave me scholarship to study in the institute. It is very expensive. It’s an institute that has been attended by former president of Nigeria.
I was privileged to be a part of that. I am not done with them but the training I had there blew up my mind. It changed my mind set. What I am doing now is part of the burden I took out of the institute. The institute trained us and gave us assignments, and this is what I took out of the institute to reach out to the city.
We run City Mandate in some Churches in Nigeria like Go Ye Pentecostal Mission, Power Pack, to mention a few within Nigeria. Then, God helped us with one of our brothers in the faith to make use of his Church Platform for the training, and we just did a basic part of the training, and everything was just whao! From there we moved to another Church in America, another in Trinidad, and Guyana, and we are looking forward to others. If you look at our facebook page, City Transformation Projects, you see reactions. Where those reactions are coming are from those places we have run these programmes. I have never been to those nations but through internet facilities they have been benefitting from us. From my office and our living room God has been using us to impact lives in other parts of the world.
Two days ago we received a letter about the impact the institute has been having on people in the Republic of Guyana. It’s massive. A Guyanese brother called me from there and said I did not realise what God has been using me to do in Guyana, that I need to come there. He testified to the blessings they have been receiving from the training. I tried to expose them to AI as a tool this end time.
That Saturday is very special to me. We will be hosting about hundred pastors, in our hall. My local chapter of PFN is helping us to reach out to members. My team will also be reaching out to those who will benefit from it. We are reaching out to leaders. After that we are going to open a road map to others in 2026.
What about the cost implications?
Usually we don’t put money at the front burner, but at the same time we should be wise. It is not cheap to put that kind of a programme together. The cost is about a thousand dollars, but we run it on benevolence covering three level of the basic, the diploma and the Executive programmes. When we run it, you raise an honourarium for us. People can visit our website which is still under construction. We are rebranding to suit the certificate that will be rewarded. If you go through the training it must give you a 360 degrees turnaround in what you are doing. That is the assurance we can give except if you are not willing.
This summit which is a one-day event on Saturday is free.
We also have the final day which is Sunday. That will be the grand finale starting about 12 noon. That is when we will be doing public presentations of some of my books. We have a number of them to be released before that day. One of them is Transforming the Unwilling People. We have noticed that not everything rises and falls with a leader like John Maxwell postulates in one of his books. There is the tendency for a leader to be leading unwilling people. You cannot force them to act against their will. It is titled Transforming the Unwilling. There are two others, one is foreworded by Archbishop Taiwo Akinola, of Rhema Towers in Sango, he foreworded Beyond Potentials. This one explains it is not enough to have potentials. Another is about Enlarging Your Capacity for Kingdom Impacts. One is foreworded by Bishop Bisi Bankole titled City Gates, Strategic and Spiritual Keys to Urban Transformation.
So many?
Yes. I have about eight books if they can be made ready. Another one is Strategic Thinker foreworded by Bishop Gabriel Ekaenang, the Pastor of Word Tabernacle in Uyo.
After the Convention what do we expect?
After the convention, I want to focus on training. When I clocked 50, the question I asked myself was ‘Have I done enough?’ It’s not about building. But to see if I had created enough impacts that I could be remembered for. I looked at that and all that God had helped me with. I am a multi dimensional fellow. Most times I am very unpredictable because, if you want to talk music, you find me there. I just know that God has given me the grace to make people better persons, and I have found a key in transformational leadership.
I am going to spend more of my times in developing leaders across the globe. We are trusting God for more gifts to impact our world. Like some of my students in Trinidad, having seen the impact of what I am doing called me a Global Trasformational Leader, and I will like to see myself in that perspective. Presently, I prepare materials for leaders across the globe to meet the needs of leaders in all spheres of life.
What we are presently doing is to build trusts and I can see myself as one of the remnants working for people to have confidence in Nigerian pastors. Unfortunately, many of our African brethren are afraid of Nigerian Pastors. We are out to cleanse out the bad image about Nigerian pastors. I cannot take advantage of people who have trusted me enough, they hgave me their hearts, gave their pulpits, and platform to bless them and bless their people, I am not going to do that.
Building Transformational Leadership. How do you assess your mission in building transformational Leaders?
If I want to rate myself from 0-10, I think we are not up to 1 yet because if you are to gather pastors in our area now, how many pastors are you sure will be speaking the way I am speaking? I am not sure ratio one to ten will get two. Because many pastors are have been frustrated because of the economy, so many are suffering from the problems of no planning, they don’t plan, many of them got to the ministry by accident, they never planned ministry, may be they had problems with their senior pastors and they break out from their ministry, to form their own. Some might have started well but along the line they married wrongly and the burden becomes too much to bear. We have so many reasons like that.
How many pastors will be speaking the way I am speaking? These days pastors are classified with the number of their congregation, the number of houses and vehicles they can hold claim to, the size of their wealth. That is the mindset of an average Nigerian Pastor. Until we begin to get the figure increased from 1 to 2, to 5, I don’t think we have really started and that is why the City Mandate Summit is very crucial at this moment. It is not just about Church leaders but leaders generally. In all spheres of life we will begin to think positively.
Like in Guyana we have medical doctors in our class, we have military men and women, if we begin to have people like that in the summit, we will begin to have more transformative environment.
Transformation in our society
My focus is not that of our national leaders for now, because our problems are fundamentally foundational. Those that are in power now are just seeing what they can do. Our problem in Nigeria is systemic. It has serious background from our colonial masters. The colonial masters came and gave us independence and refused to mentor us. It is not just a Nigerian problem but an African problem. Our quest for freedom was so much on them that they had no choice but to release them to independence and that is why many African countries got independence about the same time. They gave us independence but they refused to mentor us because they want our mind to be enslaved, perpetually. Physically we are free, but mentally we are in chains. That is why they can take our resources. Until we have leaders who can truly fight for our independence.
This is against what obtained in Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew. He came here and saw the way Nigerian leaders lavishly spend public resources. He knew that Africa would go no where he quickly disengaged from them. That is why I believe if we can influence leaders in Iyana Ipaja or Alimoso generally, things would change. Development will be based on the basic needs of the people.
What is the way out?
The way out is to subject ourselves to rethinking, replanning and go back to the drawing board as a people. First, we need to throw away the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria. The biggest political challenge we have in Nigeria presently is the burden of the constitution. We need to fashion out how leaders will emerge creditably in Nigeria. If that is not done, we will continue to move in a circle.
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