LAGOS, Nigeria — A new slate of leadership was elected by the All Africa Baptist Fellowship (AABF) during its 7th Assembly in Lagos, Nigeria, Nov. 16–20.
Isaac Durosinjesu Ayanrinola, director of the Missionary Organization Department of the Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC), was elected AABF general secretary to succeed Harrison Olan’g, vice chancellor of Mount Meru University in Tanzania. Olan’g served as acting general secretary since 2007, following the death of AABF General Secretary Frank Adams of Ghana in December 2006.
Ayanrinola holds bachelor’s degrees from the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary in Ogbomoso, American Baptist College in Nashville and master of divinity and doctor of missiology degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.
Michael Okwakol, senior pastor of Agape Baptist Church in Kampala, Uganda, founder and president of African Church Empowerment Ministries and immediate-past chairman of the eastern subregion of the AABF, was elected AABF president.
Two vice presidents were elected, Enoch B. Dusingizimana, president and general secretary of the Community of Christian Churches in Africa, based in Rwanda, and Angelo Scheepers, general secretary of the Baptist Union of Southern Africa. Moses Adebayo, treasurer of the NBC, was elected to chair for the Southern Africa subregion of the AABF.
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