History
In the early 1990s, there arose in the Chapel a generation of vibrant
young men and women who came together to form what was called THE YOUTH CHAPEL.
This Youth Chapel ran parallel with the main Adult service and the Sunday School,
and their meetings were so spectacular that not only did they experience
tremendous increase, sometimes adults from the main Chapel would come and
join them. They almost doubled the main Chapel by attendance!
Over time, the Chapel Fellowship of Ministers (FM) noticed low attendance of
youths in the Main Chapel services and their preference for the vibrant Youth
Chapel. The FM called for a meeting with the Youth Chapel leaders,
and subsequently directed that the Youth Chapel be dissolved and the
youths be integrated into the Chapel Main Services. The youths were to
come into the Chapel, and they were promised, they would be given the
opportunity and freedom to and make it as vibrant and charming as the
erstwhile Youth Chapel. Unfortunately, things did not turn out as expected,
and this led to a mass exodus of the Youths into the OAU Campus Fellowships,
where many of them became leaders and pastors.
Many youths, children of All Souls' Chapel, stayed back in the Chapel to
work and ensure that the voices of the youths were heard, including
Bola Adegbonmire, Gboyega Odebiyi, Mayowa Odebiyi, Yemi Adeyemo, Lanre Olowookere,
Yetunde, the Ojos, the Adenugas, the late Ayomipo Ogundana amongst many others.
Many youths, children of All Souls' Chapel, stayed back in the Chapel to
work and ensure that the voices of the youths were heard, including
Bola Adegbonmire, Gboyega Odebiyi, Mayowa Odebiyi, Yemi Adeyemo, Lanre Olowookere,
Yetunde, the Ojos, the Adenugas, the late Ayomipo Ogundana amongst many others.
The arrival of the Very Revd J. O. Fasipe as the new Chaplain created an
opportunity for reform. He, on discovering the absence of the youths in the
Chapel forwarded to the Chapel Council a proposal that:
i. the youths be allowed to lead the service at the main Chapel every quarter in a year
ii. they be given N10,000.00 every year for the services.
iii. they be called Chapel Youth Fellowship, and
iv. they be allowed to Fellowship on their own, though not to run parallel to the Chapel Services.
Upon the approval by the Chapel Council, the Chapel Youth Fellowship was born and formally inaugurated in December 1996. Mr. Bola Adegbonmire was elected the pioneer President of the Chapel Youth Fellowship.
