ISSACHAR
Diran & Dupe Adedeji, tribe leaders

“Knowing the signs of the time for exploits”

We moved to San Antonio from New Jersey after living there for 12 years. Things were really tough and the Lord showed me a vision to leave that city before it gets too late for me.

We got to San Antonio on January 6, 1997, which happened to be our first wedding anniversary and we discovered Cornerstone Church in March of the same year.

Even though it is a huge church, to us it is small because we feel like family here. Nobody sees color, race, age or background, all we see here is the family of God coming together.

We joined the Home and Hospital Ministries immediately and took all the classes available to grow in the Lord. Dupe volunteered in the Children’s church for the 11 o’clock service for many years. Later we became Home Ministry Leaders.

In 1999 God told me to go back to my country, Nigeria, and start a ministry there catering to the orphans, widows and less privileged. Pastor John Hagee, who ordained me to be a pastor, has supported us and assisted us in many areas of our ministry and he has been a real blessing from the Lord. Today we have about thirty children who have benefited from our scholarship program and about fifteen still benefiting from it right now. We have over a thousand widows in three cities that we feed and we do medical missions about once in four months in those locations.

Pastor Hagee helped us in purchasing a home that will conveniently accommodate thirty children. Right now, we have five babies who lost their mothers at birth and two children who lost their father to HIV/AIDS. We are still taking in more children and we’ll stop at thirty. We hope to train them up to University level and make that place a real home for them and not just an orphanage.

We both get invitations to preach in churches both here in the US and in Nigeria. Dupe has, with the blessing and support of Mama Diana Hagee, organized the King Daughter’s Conference for five years in Nigeria, about 1,800 people have passed through these classes and she does it yearly.

It is such a great honor to become Tribe Leader and to serve the people of Cornerstone Church under the able leadership of Pastor John and Diana Hagee and we pray for wisdom to do this great work.

God has blessed us tremendously with our three wonderful children and businesses both in Nigeria and the United States.

Our motto for Issachar is “Issachar Prays”. The men and women of Issachar are committed to praying to the Lord Almighty who is able to do all things.