Biography of Minister David Nkennor

Born on June 21, Minister David Nkennor is a Worship Leader and Song-writer with a peculiar anointing for special songs. 

His singing ministry began as a teenager in 1999, in a 6-man accapella group called BABY'S HEART which gained a fair degree of popularity within a decade, ministering humility and the love of Jesus across several University campuses, Concerts and Churches in Nigeria. 

He is a unique blend of creativity and experience with a strong passion for God in worship. 

He is the author of "Without Restriction", "Blessings & Honour", "We want more", and several other songs sang in many Churches today. 

An Educationist by training, David Nkennor has featured both as an Artiste and/or Speaker at major christian events and music seminars across Nigeria. 

David Nkennor is the Visioneer, W.I.D.E and the President of WORSHIP CULTURE, the Company.

 

ABOUT WORSHIP IS W.I.D.E

WORSHIP IS W.I.D.E by David Nkennor is an acronym for Worship is What I Do Every time. W.I.D.E is a music ministry dedicated to creating atmospheres for true worship and providing worship tools to help people experience God in new ways. 

W.I.D.E premiered on the 28th of September 2008 with a Live worship recording in Lagos, Nigeria. In the room were about 100 worshippers who took part in an experience that would ultimately spread to the nations.  

Almost no one anticipated the depth and impact of this gathering, as the atmosphere grew thick in no time. This experience was captured in video and audio formats; and in a matter of months found its way into  the homes, cars and hands of thousands of people, with testimonies rolling in from all over Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra-Leone, United Kingdom, America, and Cyprus and so on, without any publicity! 

Ever since, Souls have been saved, sicknesses have been healed, and burdens have been lifted as a result of this recording, as well as others. Today, this mission takes us about recreating such experiences in several Cities and in the Nations. In 2019, The Worship is W.I.D.E tribe visited the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Lagos Nigeria, in a 3-part mission that engaged the hospital community in Worship, Prayer and financial interventions totalling over N500,000 for patients.

The vision and ministry of Worship is W.I.D.E was initiated by David Nkennor, who today leads a growing network of volunteers and partners, regarded to as the tribe, in achieving the goals of the ministry.

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ABOUT DAVID

Leader & Founder, WORSHIP IS W.I.D.E

David Nkennor is a Worship Leader and Song-writer with clear grace and a peculiar anointing for what he does. He has been in the Gospel music scene actively for close to two decades, and worked alongside numerous A-list Gospel artistes in Nigeria.  

His songs, including songs like Without Restriction, Blessings & Honour, Oh My God, You are good and several others have been a blessing to many Churches today locally and internationally. He is the Author of THE MUSIC CODE OF GOD, a highly reputable book on the background, purposes and guidelines for the music ministry.  

He features both as a Speaker and Artiste at several Christian events in Nigeria and is known for planning and hosting great Concerts.  

A trained Educationist and Mathematics graduate from the University of Lagos, David enjoys teaching, creative thinking, solving problems, writing and travelling. 

In 2008, he founded WORSHIP IS W.I.D.E (acronym for What I Do Everytime), a ministry dedicated to the Worship and Works of Jesus through music, concerts and trainings; and has two so-named Live albums - “WORSHIP IS W.I.D.E 1 & 2”, recorded in 2008 and 2014 respectively, along with several singles.  

Until fully embracing his current assignment, he Pastored as an associate in his local Church, and was involved in the production of a Christian TV channel. 

David plays host to numerous events annually, including a weekly online worship experience called THE MORNING DEW. He is happily married to his heartthrob, Ugochi and they’re blessed with two beautiful children (as at the time of compiling this biography). Together, they’re carrying on the banner of the Lord Jesus.

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We met in 2010, at the time we met, I had just gotten admission into the university after ten years of seeking for admission. I had just gotten admission into the University of Lagos so I had to shut down on everything I was doing, ministry, everything and I was like let me go to school and have my degree since that’s what everybody wanted.

So I got into school at that time after several years. I got into school at a point she was graduating. Actually she was supposed to graduate 2010 but then she had an extra year. So it was the same year she was supposed to be graduating that I got into school.

In my getting into school I had made up my mind for one thing, to get my certificate and to leave. I wasn’t interested in meeting anybody; I have enough trouble from ministry already.

She was in University of Lagos studying Physics while I was studying Mathematics. One of those days she decided that she was going to pick an elective course from another department just to add to whatever she had. She had just one course that she was supposed to be doing, she decided to come and add a mathematics course. She left physics department and came to math department to borrow a course. So she walked into the class where I was and was asking to see a note to borrow. People have always told me that I have a very delicious handwriting, in fact my father use to say that “this boy I hope you don’t write love letters with this your handwriting.” Everybody talks about my handwriting, well I wish the handwriting gave me marks in school. Lecturers love it anyways.

wShe walks in and then it was my note she saw with someone, she was trying to go through the note and the handwriting just struck her and she was like who has this note. They pointed to the dude, I was sitting right behind them, I had my face cap on and while playing with my phone, then she turns back to give me a compliment to say “hello your handwriting is really nice” and all that, and I was like “ehen I hear that all the time, thank you” and continued what I was doing.  Later I needed to go and eat and I told her to keep my note. By the time I came back I didn’t see her again I was upset but then she dropped a note with somebody and her number that I should call her when I get back that she had to go for a class. In my mind I was like who is this girl that is looking for man abeg abeg abeg I don’t have time (lol). So I collected the number and sha went and called her angrily, please I need my note, she came by apologized and gave me my note. I took my note and left.  Let me speak like all those people in the world (tongues out), one mind was telling me to save the number, another mind was saying woo forget this thing jare (laughs) and I told myself am not saving any number jor. So I didn’t save the number eventually.

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Few days later I was standing somewhere under a tree meditating, normally that’s how I do and then she walked past me but it wasn’t like she recognized me, she just walked past, and I noticed oh that’s same girl that borrowed my note. I also noticed she was crying. So I called her attention she turned and looked at me and tried to keep going. I walked up to her and asked if everything is fine, she was just sobbing and sobbing and I told her all is well, all things work together for good, do you want to talk about it, so she told me about her extra year and all the issues she was having. So I started to encourage her, just telling her basically that nothing just happens, God has a plan for everyone. One thing led to another and I asked her do you really know Christ, do you go to church? She said yes. Then I asked are you born again, she couldn’t really answer, she wasn’t born again actually so I led her to Christ (FPCV: waooooooooo)

After leading her to Christ that was the beginning so we started off like that. I will check on her you know just to encourage her, I started teaching her the Word. We met at the University of Lagos (Unilag) chapel every day. I can safely say that it’s been seven years now, she is the only person I have spoken to everyday for seven years. (Surprised) laughs.

It started with me checking up on her and then we go to share the word together, and you know, she is a good listener, so every night after the whole hustle and bustle of the day we retire to the chapel and I will begin to teach her the Bible, the Word of God. I got her filled in the Holy Ghost, she started speaking in tongues, and I baptized her with water (everyone laughs.) (FPCV: You did everything o)

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But all this while she was not on my mind, she wasn’t in the picture. In fact a couple of times I had told her, because of where she was coming from, her past with guys and all, so she had felt this is another guy, maybe he is interested in me, so I had to call her and I told her bluntly, not once not twice I said look if I’m going to get married tomorrow, count the list of ladies 1, 2, 3 you are not among. I love you as a friend and at this point I don’t see you as my wife and that was primarily because I come from a Christian, pastoral background you know and I was always looking forward to a woman that will be like my mother that prays, and I said see this carnal girl (everyone laugh) and at the time I met her she was a clubber. Oh my Jesus! She clubs for Africa, in fact one of her goals one particular year was to finish the whole clubs in Lagos. And then she was also involved with a lot of terrible stuffs, funny fraudulent things let me put it that way (laughs)

After she gave her life to Christ I mean she was like placed in the middle of the sea. She had a lot to do. She had made commitment you know, some deals she had already sealed, and she couldn’t go further because something had changed in her heart and she was afraid.  She met me one day and then she brought out an ID card and gave to me, all this while take note she never knew I use to sing or I was a church boy, she never knew. I just hid that part from her. So she gave me one ID card one day it was a driver’s license

And then it was her face but a different name, and I’m like I don’t understand, now she was planning to write an A-level exam for somebody. You know like I said, she is intelligent, she used to write exams for people, that was part of the things she used to do back then. And I was like no way that is not going to happen in fact before she said Jack Robinson I just took the ID card and I broke it. Whatever it cost them to make that fake ID, she knew that there was no turning back, she knew she has crossed the bridge and there is no turning back.

That was like the whole thing for us at the beginning, all her friends and people around her back then started noticing something different with her. Her friends will call her for clubbing and she is not interested.

So fast forward three years after the Lord spoke to me one morning, I just woke up that morning and he said that’s your wife. And I was like ok (laughs). We’ve courted for three years and I have never had a single regrets any day with the decision that I made. She is just; I don’t want to use the word perfect so it doesn’t sound cliché. She is just very seamlessly fitted into my life and ministry and everything that I do. And I enjoy the fact that she is very intelligent, sometimes before I think of something she had already said it and I can rest. You know so that’s basically the story.

Ugochi: As he said he had told me while we were still friends that in his top 5 I’m not on the list at all, it’s not like he had anybody then, but he just told me that you are not my spec. but then he had this babe he was having hopes on though. Well he was believing God for that relationship to work for seven years. He was just hoping she would say yes.

FPCV: At that time when he told you, you were not in his top 5 how did you feel?

Ugochi: (laughs) see there is one thing I always told my friend and then I told my sister. The first thing I told them was whoever ends up with David is lucky I used to use the word lucky then, whoever ends up with this guy is a lucky person. But then I had found someone that was real I had found someone that was not like every other guy I couldn’t let him go on the basis of courtship. I was enjoying our friendship. That was all I wanted. He was close to me, I could hand over my sister to him, if my sister just tells me she is having this problem, I can tell her to go and speak with David, he is going to sort your issues. I could not risk all that friendship, all that thing I have found. I told him “Ehen, if you have found someone no problem just know that I am still in your life, that’s my own, nothing will change our friendship.” So when he told me that I just felt as long as you are still in my life that’s all that matters. So I didn’t feel bad. Anyways I wouldn’t have even felt bad, he was a church boy so I didn’t even see him as my spec in the first place, you know all this church boys. But then he was different he was just a very real person and I enjoyed that fact.

Ugochi: There are several parts to it but the first thing first is that we are friends, there is no forming, 

She is a worshipper, she may not be singing on stage but she is just literally everything I do behind stage. 

 

 is the person every other thing is secondary. If we go out there because of our smartness to say ok are we compatible here? Ok I think we are compatible there, we don’t make decisions out of the flesh. A lot of people who do that end up regretting. So I was sure of that from the beginning that I wasn’t going to make that decision myself. I don’t trust myself that much. You know so I will say to people do not trust yourself; you can just trust the Holy Spirit to make that decision for you. If you are a guy, if you are a girl and you are confused, trust God and if you don’t have that inner conviction, it may not even make sense in your head but in your heart you have that inner witness that this is the person, my dear run with it and just stay with that person.

FPCV: What are some of the qualities we should look out for in a spouse?

Songs and Musical Releases by Minister David Nkennor

Minister David Nkennor has released the following sounds to the body of Christ

• You are Good
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