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Zacharias TANEE FOMUM

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Professor Zacharias Tanee Fomum was born in the flesh on June 20, 1945 and born of the Holy Spirit on June 13, 1956. He made an absolute surrender to the service of the Lord Jesus on October 1, 1966 and was filled with the Holy Spirit on October 24, 1970. He obtained his Bachelor's degree with "Excellent" distinction and received the prize of excellence at "Fourah Bay College" at the University of Sierra Leone in October 1969. His research work in Organic Chemistry led to a Doctorate (Ph.D.), awarded by the University of Makéréré, Kampala, Uganda. His published scientific work was recently evaluated by the University of Durham in Great Britain, and is considered scientific research of great distinction, for which he was awarded the degree of "Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)" in October 2005. As Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon, Professor Zacharias Tanee Fomum has supervised or co-supervised more than a hundred dissertations. Master’s degree in DEA, and Doctorate theses. He is co-author of more than 160 publications published in internationally renowned Scientific Journals. He viewed scientific research as an act of obedience to God's command to go and "subdue the earth" (Genesis 1:28). Professor Fomum also knew that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Lord of Science.   “For in Him all things were created…” (Colossians 1:16). He had made the Lord Jesus the Director of his research laboratory, and he himself took the place of deputy director.    He attributes his scientific success to the revelational leadership of the Lord Jesus. In his passion to know Jesus and bring multitudes to know Him, He read over 1,300 books on the Christian faith and authored over 150 books himself to promote the Gospel of Christ. Four million copies of his books are in circulation in 11 languages. Sixteen million copies of evangelical treatises of which he is the author are in circulation in 17 languages. Professor Fomum considered prayer to be the most important work that can be done on earth for God and for man. He was a man of faith who believed that God answers prayers. He has recorded more than 50,000 responses to his written prayers. He worked more and more to know God in order to move Him to answer his prayers. He and his team have completed more than 57 Prayer Crusades (40-day prayer periods during which at least 8 hours are invested in prayer each day). They have also completed more than 80 Seats of Prayer (nearly uninterrupted times of prayer that vary from 24 hours to 120 hours). He has also completed more than 100 Prayer Walks ranging from 5 to 47 kilometers in towns and cities around the world. He taught on prayer again and again, although in many ways he was just a beginner in the profound science of prayer. He also considered fasting to be one of the major weapons in Christian spiritual warfare. He completed more than 250 fasts lasting from 3 to 40 days, drinking only water. In some of these long fasts, he also took water-soluble vitamins. The Lord recently called the Teacher to fight the armies of wickedness in the heavenly places through supra-long fasts (52 to 80 full days). In obedience to this call, he completed 3 super-long fasts. Professor Fomum saw the importance of saving money and investing it in order to reach the lost with the glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. He thus chose a lifestyle of simplicity and “self-imposed poverty,” so that their income would be invested in the critical work of evangelism, soul winning, church planting and the perfecting of the saints. He and his wife have progressed to investing in the Gospel 92.5% of their income earned from all sources (salaries, allowances, royalties and cash donations). This was with the hope that as he grew in knowledge, in love for the Lord, in love for the lost, he would invest 99% of those earnings in the Gospel. Over the past forty years, this Spiritual leader spent between 15 minutes and 6 hours a day with God in what he called Daily Dynamic Meetings With God. During these times he read the Word of God, he meditated, listened to the voice of God, heard God speak to him; he recorded what God was saying to him and prayed. In total, he has had over 18,000 written Daily Dynamic Encounters with God. He considered these daily encounters with God around His Word to be the defining force of his life. These Dynamic Daily Meetings With God, to which he had added more than 60 periods of retreats to seek God alone, for periods varying from 3 to 21 days (what he called Retreats for Spiritual Progress), gradually transformed Professor Z. T. Fomum into a man who, first, hungered for God, then hungered and thirsted for God, all the while hoping to become a man who would hunger and thirst more for God and who would sigh after God. “O may I have more of God!” was the incessant cry of his heart. A passionate evangelist and preacher, he traveled extensively. He has carried out, starting from his base in Yaoundé, more than 700 missionary trips within Cameroon, trips lasting from one day to 3 weeks. He has also completed more than 500 mission trips lasting between 2 days and 6 weeks in more than 70 nations on all 6 continents. Professor Fomum was the leader of the Founding Team of the International Christian Missionary Fellowship, an evangelism, soul-winning, church planting and discipleship movement with missionaries and churches in over 50 countries around the world and on all 6 continents. With his team, Professor has seen over 10,000 healing miracles performed by the Lord in response to prayer in the Name of Jesus Christ. These miracles ranged from headaches disappearing, cancers disappearing, HIV positive people completely transformed into HIV negative, the blind receiving their sight, the deaf hearing, the mute speaking, the lame walking, demoniacs delivered, new teeth and new organs received. This father was married to Prisca Zei Fomum and their seven children are engaged with them in the work of the Gospel. His wife, Prisca, is National and International Minister for Children. She specializes in winning children and making them disciples of the Lord Jesus. She is also committed to imparting the vision of Children's Ministry, to raising and building children's ministers. Professor Zacharias Tanee Fomum said that everything he was, and everything the Lord had done in and through him, he owed to the undeserved favors and blessings of the Eternal God Almighty. He owed it also to his worldwide army of friends and co-workers who generously and sacrificially invested their love, encouragement, fasting, prayers, gifts and cooperation on him and in their common ministry. Without the undeserved favors and blessings of the Eternal God Almighty and the investments of his friends and co-workers, he would have been nothing and he would have done nothing at all.