Festus Alegbe Efosa is a clergy, author, civil engineer, public administrator, relationship counsellor, investor, and leadership development enthusiast. He is passionate about helping individuals discover purpose, strengthen relationships, develop leadership capacity, and create meaningful impact in their communities.
Drawing from experience in ministry, engineering, public service, and personal development, Festus shares practical insights on faith in action, leadership, family values, character development, and community transformation. Through his writing, teaching, and mentorship, he seeks to inspire people to live intentionally, lead responsibly, and serve others effectively.
Welcome to 12-Minute Converse with Jesus Believers.
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God chose first to have a conversation with us, his creation.
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Our prayer is that this listening space brings growth and transforms your life forever.
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Praise God for you, Esther.
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It's a great pleasure to connect with you.
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What part of the world are you in today?
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I'm in Nigeria, specifically Bras Island, located in the southern part of Nigeria.
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How long have you been in ministry?
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Nine straight years at the moment.
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How did you come to meet Jesus?
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I'm privileged to be born into a Christian home and that is the adaptation stage of my life, trying to inculcate family value through birth.
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At the age of 16, I gave my life to Jesus Christ, having gotten that adaptive alignment.
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At the age of 20, I began to redirect myself, having consciousness of my birth, my foundation.
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I began to know Jesus Christ experientially and I can acknowledge my encounter with Jesus.
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I actually started at the age of 30, which is 2012.
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That is my age of acknowledgement counterparts.
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And when you say acknowledgement, you mean accepting Jesus as your personal saviour, yes?
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Yes, knowing Jesus in person, not just as a believer, as Christian, but personal encounter.
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How important do you believe that is for anyone that's listening to have that relationship with Jesus?
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Yes, it's very essential because according to scripture, Jesus is the world and this is also the light.
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And this light is the light that shines upon everyone that comes upon the surface of the earth.
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So if with that light, you cannot get your way in life, just according to scripture, the world is a lamp unto my feet.
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And if you have an encounter with Jesus, you will have light.
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And with light, you will not experience wilderness experience.
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Just before I go to my stage of encounter with Christ, I will have a series of wilderness experience, confusion, not knowing my direction in life.
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Until I have an encounter with Jesus, that shines his light upon my life, I begin to pattern my destiny until I find my feet in life.
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Have you ever witnessed a miracle?
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Yes, miracles are real.
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I have experienced it by privilege.
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God has by my hand also performed miracles.
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I have seen a barren woman conceived miraculously.
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And we celebrated this testimony.
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I have seen the sick hit with proven medical record and God changed it.
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I have seen it.
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I believe it and it's real.
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Is there anything in your life that has the same level of happiness that was brought to you when you met Jesus?
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Yes.
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My testimony of encounter is centered on direction and fulfillment because I was confused in life.
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I suffered delay in life compared to the age of waiting, years of waiting, academic struggle and delay.
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But when I encountered Christ, he terminated academic delay, frustration in career and marriage.
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And all of this career and marital settlement came within that 30 years, 2012.
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I began to enjoy speed of fulfillment in life and it has been a great joy to me that I will advocate and spread the gospel conveniently with great conviction.
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What is the biggest challenge you encounter on the missionary field?
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Once we are deployed to a place, it's time to go to a place we don't select.
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Because once it's God, it's good.
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If God sends you, he will back you.
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So the challenges are, for instance, I grew up in a mountainous area where we are not exposed to water.
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I've never traveled across water.
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But as I speak to you now, I'm on an island where I have to travel across the sea, across the ocean, on speed boat, on the rig of all of these tools with my family.
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It is a big challenge because it's a new experience.
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But God gave us courage, strength, and it has been God's way.
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How many children do you have?
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I presently have two kids, a boy and a girl.
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How old are they?
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Eight and five years old.
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Wow, that's young.
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Is their life a lot different from yours when you were growing up?
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Yes, yes.
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I would say growing up, a lot of youthful exuberance, agro-pressure, trying to compete with friends.
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And generally, I grew up in a mixed cultural and religious setting where you have predominantly Muslims.
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So that religious interference did not give one that leverage to actually get this conviction until over time, begin to see the difference and begin to make necessary adjustments.
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But I fall into some kind of an influence to friends, going to alcoholism, partying, clubbing, social life.
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But over time, as I encountered Christ, I have the grace to begin to cut off from such lifestyle.
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My life over time is quite different.
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It's a complete departure from what I experienced growing up.
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When I'm listening to you, Festus, I can hear the joy emanating from your voice.
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You must have a very amazing wife that is walking alongside you on these adventures.
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How did you meet your wife?
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Yeah, I must admit it is divine because if one receives the call from ministry and you don't have a supporting spouse, you need to look back to God.
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Are you sure this is the one?
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And an amazing wife indeed.
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Her name is blessing and she has been a blessing indeed through my life.
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And I met her while God, in the process of restoration of academic delay, I met her in the campus.
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I met her in campus in 2014.
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I got married in 2017.
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How many books have you written?
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Presently, I've written so far 14 books.
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Congratulations on that.
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What is your tool of choice?
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Are you writing pencil and paper, keyboard and computer?
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Which do you prefer?
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The computer.
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So what is your most recent book that you've written?
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Yeah, the most recent book is No Place Is Bad If God Sends You.
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It is based on my experience on the mission field.
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I think the book is trying to tell all missionaries not to be selective of where to go, but to rely on divine instruction.
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The delay may not work.
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If it's God, go.
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God will back you.
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It's so scary though, Festus.
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I mean, yeah, there's evidence.
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I can testify to that if there's time.
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There's good evidence.
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All right.
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Five years from today, you're listening to this conversation.
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You hear the evolution of Festus from being a child in school, to going through his ups and downs, to accepting Christ, to marrying his wife, to having children.
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What's a message you'd leave for future you?
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Yes, Romans 8, 28.
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All things work together for good.
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For they that love God and are called according to his purpose.
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Remaining God's call for your life, everything will keep working for good.
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Has he ever failed you on the mission field, in life?
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Has Jesus ever failed you?
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No, Jesus never fails.
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He's a trusted guide.
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He's really a trusted guide.
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Man will fail, but Jesus don't fail.
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He has never failed me.
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If he say no, it meant good.
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If he say yes, it's for good.
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If he say wait, it's for good.
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He has never failed me.
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Festus, in closing, is there anything else you'd like to share?
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I would like you people to hold on to John chapter 6, verse 63.
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It says, the words that I speak to you, they are spirit and life.
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If you want to have life, even here on earth and in the life to come, just keep going for the word of God.
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I'm also available on LinkedIn and Amazon.
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Just search for my name, you will find some of my publications.
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God bless you.
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God bless you as well, Festus.
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Again, a pleasure, a treasure.
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Thank you for being on What Is Inspired by Twelve Minute Converse.
