Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Discover the keys to transforming your world
In just twelve years, Sunday Adelaja built the largest evangelical church in Europe, a cross-cultural ministry with more than two million converts and 600 church plants worldwide. The Nigerian's self-taught and revolutionary methods of church ministry have made a dramatic impact on politics and culture in post-Christian Europe.
ChurchShift, based on his true story, gives you the keys to revolutionize your own life, faith, church, and community. Your view of God, your life, and your ministry will change as you discover how to:
* Believe Christ for supernatural growth in your life and ministries
* Activate and ignite the potential of your local church
* Transform your neighborhood, your city, and your nation by imposing kingdom principles on the culture around you
The Wall Street Journal calls him "a man with a mission!" Ukraine President Victor Yushenko states, "It was you who protected democracy in Ukraine." Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetskiy said, "Through Pastor Sunday's endeavors, we have become a bold and fearless people." The Associated Press wrote, "The Embassy of God has ballooned... into this ex-Soviet republic's first true megachurch." The British Broadcasting Corporation reports, "Nothing like the Embassy of God has ever been seen before!"
Let this book inspire you to get busy with God's assignment for your life and ministry and enter His promised land for you!
One of the greatest Christian hero stories of the modern world.
-- James O. Davis
I recommend that pastors and leaders of all kinds read ChurchShift.
--T. D. Jakes
I know of no minister around the world that is more unique and influential than Sunday Adelaja.
--Wendell Smith
Sunday Adelaja is a leading figure, not only in Ukraine but in the world.
--Billy Joe Daugherty
Of all the books on aggressively advancing the kingdom of God, this stands out as the most practical.
--C. Peter Wagner
I recommend this book to all and believe it will become a classic.
--Myles E. Munroe
I have heard and read a great deal about Pastor Sunday and about the work he is doing. All those who do great things go through attacks such as Pastor Sunday has endured.
--U.S. President Bill Clinton
Some are called to churches. Some are called to cities. Sunday Adelaja has a fresh word for the nations! His experience with the Lord, his compassion for people, and his commitment to the kingdom make Sunday Adelaja a world-class leader with a world-class vision to build a world-class army to change the world for Christ. This world-class book is a must for you today. Read and reap benefits for a lifetime.
--Kenneth C. Ulmer, DMin, PhD
Sunday Adelaja is an indisputable success in his family, in his church, in his nation. This book will help you grow personally and spiritually. Read it and SUCCEED!
--Peter Lowe
God has raised up Sunday Adelaja to lead men and women to a deeper understanding of their spiritual destinies. Read this book, and let the journey begin.
--Rear Admiral Barry Black (Ret.)
About the author
Sunday Adelaja is a Nigerian-born leader, thinker, philosopher, transformation strategist, Pastor, author, and Innovator who is based in Brussels, Belgium. Sunday Adelaja is one of the few individuals in our world who has been privileged to speak in the United Nations, Israeli Parliament, Japanese Parliament, and United States Senate.
He is the author of over 300 books, many of which are translated into several languages, including Russian, English, French, Chinese, German, etc.
His work has been widely reported by world media outlets such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, BBC, German, Dutch and French national television stations.
About the author
Joel Kilpatrick is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has been featured in Time magazine, the Washington Post, USA Today, CBS Radio, the Dallas Morning News and dozens of newspapers and magazines. He has authored and ghostwritten more than 60 books, including a New York Times bestseller. He has reported from disaster zones and civil wars in seventeen countries, and received numerous prizes for writing and reporting, including the highest award for Christian humor.
Kilpatrick has worked with many leading ministries including Rick Warren, Mike Bickle (IHOP), Bill Johnson (Bethel Redding), Michael Hyatt, TBN, Joni & Friends, Nancy Alcorn, Convoy of Hope, the Dream Center and the pastors of many large churches. He ghostwrote Don Colbert's The 7 Pillars of Health which has sold half a million copies. Kilpatrick's most recent books are The Last Rescue, (Thomas Nelson, 2014), the follow-up to Howard Wasdin's best-selling Seal Team Six memoir, Redemption (Thomas Nelson, 2012) The Art of Being You (Zondervan, 2010) and Gray Matter (Tyndale House, 2011) all co-authored. Kilpatrick has written and edited three humor books with HarperCollins.
Humor writing brought Kilpatrick's work to national attention. He founded LarkNews.com, the world's leading religion satire website which won the Dove award for humor (officially called the Grady Nutt Humor Award) from the Gospel Music Association in Nashville in 2005. One radio report described his writing as "pithy Christian satire on par with the irreverence of Saturday Night Live and The Onion." Kilpatrick won the top humor prize given by the Evangelical Press Association in 2013, one of a number of EPA awards he has won. He was profiled in Time magazine, in Christianity Today and on NPR, and has been featured twice in USA Today. LarkNews enjoys a million visitors annually, an audience which includes opinion leaders in many industries.
Kilpatrick earned an MS degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York in 1995. He lives in southern California with his wife and five children, most of whom he loves.
