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Pastor Moses Akanbi was born May 23,1954, to Joseph and Mary Akanbi. The call of God on Pastor Akanbi`s life was recognized early by his father Joseph, who was gifted with prophecy. In 1966, Pastor Akanbi`s father told him that God had a great use for him, but Pastor Akanbi resisted. He still attended church, but resisted Gods call to ministry on his life. In 1974, while attending school at Kwara State, Pastor Akanbi traveled on holiday with his friend Matthew and came across a Youth for Christ crusade at a Presbyterian church in Lagos, Nigeria. Pastor Akanbi met someone who would prove to be instrumental in his acceptance of Jesus Christ, Mabel Frazer. While the young Moses Akanbi envisioned a romantic encounter, Mabel's focus was on a higher prize - his salvation. She gently steered the conversations back to the subject at hand, and continued sharing the gospel. The scripture that Pastor Akanbi remembers most vividly from this time is Philipians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. It was during that holiday, in August of 1974, that Pastor Akanbi accepted Christ as his Savior, but it would still be some years before he was ready to submit and accept Jesus as Lord over his life.

Even after Moses returned to school, Mabel and her fiancé Emmanuel stayed in touch and continued to mentor him in the gospel and embrace him with Christ's love. They imparted their own great zeal and passion for the gospel to Moses and became very dear friends.

In 1976, after graduating from high school, and while searching for employment, Moses was encouraged to consecrate himself before God and pray for a job, since he was experiencing difficulty in finding one. So Moses put out a fleece before the Lord: if God would give him a job that he hadn't applied for, then he'd know that God would love and care for him. God provided Pastor Akanbi with a position as a Post Officer, one of the highest level positions available in the Post Office, and a position that he hadn't applied for. The Favor of God on his life was apparent.

Before the end of that year, many people told Pastor Moses that he should go into full time ministry, based on his zeal for the things of God, and the grace and presence of God that rested on his life. However, at that time, Pastor Moses resisted because he felt that he needed a job to care for his younger siblings and widowed mother.

Pastor Moses was being encouraged to walk in the office of the Prophet, as his father had done, but although he acknowledged the call of God on his life, he still wasn't ready to receive the mantle of prophet. Around that time, Pastor Moses received a vision; he saw himself in a field preaching and ministering to large crowds. So to equip himself with the skills he believed he needed to carry out that vision, he joined a Christian fellowship in what is now called Koji State, that was known for its strong evangelistic, soul-winning thrust.

At that time Pastor Moses placed another fleece before God; that if God wanted him out of the office, and into full time ministry, he would drive him out of the office with a clear sign. It was still 1977, and Pastor Moses position in the Post Office included his being in charge of returned letters. That year there was a search for a particular letter, and because he was in charge, he was responsible for locating that letter, and he couldn't find it. When Pastor Moses sought God about it, God told him if he didn't quit his job voluntarily, God would force him to leave the office.

That was when Pastor Moses surrendered to the Lords will for his life, and went into full time ministry, and he was ordained as an Evangelist. While he worked as an evangelist, holding bible studies, and teaching evangelism, he realized that he still wasn't equipped enough, and so he attended Go Ye Bible College, in Lagos, Nigeria for 1 year.In 1980 he went to Ibadan, (largest city in Nigeria) and became a part of the Gideons International Evangelistic Association where he preached, and coordinated outreach efforts. The following year, in 1981, Pastor Moses came to USA for the first time to attend Faith School of Theology in Charleston, Maine from 1981 - 1982. His studies were discontinued because of protest by Canadian students that Nigerian students were getting more scholarships than Canadian students were.

Pastor Moses attended Pinecrest Bible Training Center in Salisbury Center, NY from 1982-1983, then returned to Nigeria. Once there, he started to unite with other churches, helping to organize them to conduct crusades.

Between 1983-1985 he traveled back and forth between the US and Nigeria and in 1985, the Church of God Mission, in Kwara State and served as it's first Pastor. This church is now a large community of churches with many branches. In 1987, he started the Living Word church, and he would travel between the Living Word church to conduct crusades at other churches.

During a 40 day period of fasting and prayer, the Lord told Pastor Moses to go to Lagos. He planted a nursery and primary school, and needed additional funding so he went to Lagos, and began walking the streets there. There was an abandoned house in the Muslim community, and he conducted a crusade there. God established a church called Living Word church, it wasn't a permanent church, it was held in a school.

At this time, Pastor Moses entire mind and heart was for God went out to that Muslim community. He began to intercede for that community, meeting with the chief of that community, and speaking with and pray for the people. In the place where there were mask raids, and concussion bombs, that was the location chosen for all night prayer, and prayer walks through the community from 12 midnight until 2 a.m. This may have contributed to the Muslim Chief giving free land to Pastor Moses.

Pastor Moses Akanbi born in Nigeria, and his wife Deborah came to the United States June, 2003 on a missionary trip with a mission. To obtain the necessary resources to return to Nigeria and create the MISSIONARY FOUNDATION.

Pastor Moses and his wife Deborah were wed in 1985, and the beautiful fruit of their union includes their eight children; Joseph, John, Dorcas, Theophileus, Peter, Israel, David, and Grace. And the LORD continued to increase them in wisdom having favor with God and man of which you are one of them.

	<----------------- The house on the top was the house the Lord enable us to be living in and use as our mission center for the community Chief gave us this land for missions.		<----------------- When my wife went back to Nigeria, she pulled it down and reconstructed it. This was when she was doing it.
		<----------------- Now this is the stage it has reached with the help of God and the brethren here. They still live inside it and at the same time use it for church, but there is no ceiling so it is very cold now inside and whenever there is heat it will be very hot. This is just the beginning. We are trusting God with the support of the brethren to build our mission center and use this one for the children. Then we can talk of a mission house on the same land.