LEADERSHIP
The Women Leading Standing Women
Every group, every conference, every prayer line runs through the women who lead this network. Meet them.
FOUNDER & CONVENER
Apostle Dr. Esther Ekwutosi Madubufo
Founder & Convener, Standing Women International Praying Network · Senior Pastor, Fruitful Men and Women Ministry International
Women call her the Apostle of Fruitfulness, and it's not just a nickname. It's the heartbeat behind everything she builds. Apostle Dr. Esther Ekwutosi Madubufo founded Standing Women because she kept meeting the same woman everywhere she preached: gifted, willing, and stuck. So she built a network designed to get women unstuck: through prayer, the word, and women who refuse to let each other settle.
Standing Women sits alongside a wider body of work she's spent years building. She's the Senior Pastor of Fruitful Men and Women Ministry International, founder of Save Our New Generation (S.O.N.G), a programme that disciples children in primary and secondary schools across Nigeria, and she's held leadership positions across the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria and several international ministerial bodies. She preaches across Nigeria and beyond, and she's licensed to minister internationally by three recognised ministerial organisations.
Before ministry took over full time in 2017, she spent years in education, rising to principal of two secondary schools in Lagos. She holds multiple postgraduate degrees, including two PhDs (one in Christian Education, one in Psychology and Biblical Counselling), alongside academic training in political science, leadership, and human resources. She's also a published author of several books and devotionals. She's married to Apostle Dr. Edison Madubufo, and they have two children.
GENERAL COORDINATOR
Evangelist Dr. Doris Onuoha
General Coordinator, Standing Women International Praying Network
Evangelist Dr. Doris Onuoha runs the day-to-day of Standing Women as General Coordinator, the person making sure every group, every conference, and every prayer line actually runs the way it's supposed to. She brings nearly three decades of human resources leadership to the table, having led HR and administration for organisations including A. G. Leventis Nigeria and Tempo Paper Pulp & Packaging.
Her ministry life runs just as deep. She's an ordained minister with the Living Faith Church, has served on the board of trustees for Fruitful Men and Women Ministries International, and has led as a minister and state coordinator for Christian Prudent Wise Women of Vision International. She holds an MBA in Human Resources Management from Lagos State University and is a Doctoral Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Human Resources Management.
ADVISORY BOARD
Counsel from women who have led for decades
Two women who bring decades of ministry leadership to the table, guiding Standing Women from the outside in.
Apostle Dr. Mrs Funmilayo Iroh
Advisory Board Member · Senior Pastor, Christ Unity Ministry (The New Breed Church)
Founder of Potter's Heart Initiative, a nonprofit walking teen orphans and single teen moms through education and vocational training. Her path ran through real estate and mortgage lending in Texas before ministry took the lead. She's married to Bishop Oluwafemi Iroh, and together they lead a family now spread across the US in both corporate work and ministry.
Apostle Dr. Mrs. Godwins Ebele Helen (JP)
Advisory Board Member · General Overseer, Jesus Anointed Assembly
Her theological training spans Emmaus Bible College, the Redeemed Christian Church of God, and a doctorate from Christian University, Lagos, and she was ordained into the apostolic office during ministry travels in the United States. She's led, taught, and mentored in ministry for decades.
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