Bishop Adonijah Okechukwu Ogbonnaya, Ph.D, is the founder of AACTEV8 International (AACTEV8) and Kohanim/ CrossPower Press. AACTEV8 is Kingdom Minded Ministry which works with the Body of Christ across the globe for soul Winning, Discipleship, Training and Equipping of the saints. Kohanim/CrossPower is a publishing arm of the ministry that challenges and encourages believers to put the messages God gave them in writing and consults with them to bring their work in books for others to read.
Dr. Ogbonnaya (a.k.a.” Dr. O”) received Christ at the age of 9, was immediately called into the ministry and preached his first sermon at the age of 12. He was sent as a missionary and pastor to the Northern part of Nigeria among Muslim communities. God did tremendous work among the people through several years of evangelism and church planting until the Lord called him out and brought him to North America as a missionary.
Dr. Ogbonnaya has been in North America as an apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher, researcher and scholar for over 26 years now. He has travelled and ministered in over 25 nations, in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America with the message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Has seen God perform various signs and wonders as He promised in Mark 16:16-17, blind receive sight, deaf hear, lame work, dead raised, barren receive fruit of the womb, lives transformed and minds renewed. Dr. O’s purpose in live is “total obedient, total surrender to the Absolute God.” He is an ordained Elder in the UnitedMethodistChurch andin 2004, he was consecrated Bishop by Church of God.
He is aHebrew born nativeof Nigeria West Africa, he earned his PhD and Masters Degree in Theology and Personality and Masters in Religion from Claremont School of Theology, complete his Masters of Arts in Theological Studies at Western Evangelical Seminary, A Bachelor of Art in Religion at HillcrestChristianCollege in Canada. He also holds a Ph.D. in business Publishing.
His most recent position was Senior Vice President and Editor in Chief of UMI, a multi-million dollar Christian Publishing corporation.He has held faculty positions at AntiochUniversity, United Theological Seminary and EcumenicalCenter for Black Church Studies, La VerneUniversity in California. He has published over fourteen booksand articles.
Dr. Ogbonnaya is married to Benedicta and isblessed with four children- Alfred Okwuchukwu, Sandra Amarachi, MarianneKenechi, and Nnamdiugo.David Ogbonnaya. Dr. Ogbonnaya and his family live in LansingIllinois.