Dr. Kenneth Sesley:
Kenneth Sesley was born in East Los Angeles and spent most of his early life growing up in Compton, CA. However, upon the untimely death of his beloved mother Evelyn, he moved to Carson with a family member and subsequently graduated from Carson High School in 1979. It was during his senior year in High School that he received Christ at a small church in Lynwood, CA named Century Christian Center, pastored by Dr. Golia W. Robinson. While attending El Camino Junior College Kenneth heard the call of God to ministry. On Sunday, August 31, 1981, Minister Kenneth Sesley preached his first official sermon. (Actually, he had preached 1 year earlier in the youth day service, at the request of Dr. G. W. Robinson) Then while attending Cal State University of Dominguez Hills, he was instructed, by the Lord, to attend RHEMA Bible College in Tulsa, OK, where He graduated in 1983. Pastor Sesley continued his education and in 1995, Dr. Sesley earned a Doctorate of Theology from Christ is the Answer University in Florida.
While attending Rhema, Kenneth returned to his home church for the summer, and met and fell in love with his beautiful wife, and our first lady, Katherine Winters.After graduating from Rhema in 1983, Kenny and Kathy contiuned their courtship and were married July 13, 1985. From this union they have been blessed with three beautiful and extremely intelligent daughters; Kandyss (23 years old), Karmelle (22 years old) and Karissa (10 years old). Also born to this union is their handsome, intelligent and highly inquisitive son, Kennedy (now five).
Reverend Kenneth Sesley served as an assistant pastor at Century Christian Center for several years. When he returned home, Century Christian Center was averaging about 60 in church. Then, due to the freedom given to him by Pastor Robinson to implement changes in some of the systems of the church, Century Christian Center grew to an average Sunday morning adult attendance of 250 in just a year and a half.
This led to Reverend Sesley being asked to begin ministering throughout Southeren California in various venues and nationally in churches and conferences where, sometimes thousands gathered to hear the Word of God! In 1985, the Lord led Pastor Sesley to establish Compton Christian Fellowship World Outreach Church, which he and his lovely wife did in February of 1986. They pastored CCFWOC for almost 20 years. Through CCFWOC, thousands were born again, fed and healed, along with hundreds who were filled with God's power and discipled into God's kingdom.
In 1992, after Dr. Ed Dufresne ministered to pastor Sesley and imparted or released the workings of miracles into his prophetic mantle. From that time Pastor Sesley's minstry has been marked by an unusual manifestation of the glory of God as demonstrated by miracles, signs and wonders. In fact, the very next week, Roosevelt Petters, a Marine veteran who had had 2 1/2 inches of bone blown out of his leg during the Vietnam War, was ministered to and the Lord grew the bone out right there before everyone's eyes. Upon his return to the V. A. Hospital they discovered that all new bone had grown from his hip to his knee! Glory to God! Also, the deaf began hearing almost immediatly, the blind began seeing and the lame began walking, due to God's glory that has been manifested through the powerful anointing upon Dr. Sesley. Three years later, in 1995, the Lord revealed to Dr. Sesley that this same manifestation of the Holy Spirit, called the workings of miracles, was in his mantle to bring forth the anointing of multiplication or the anointing of supernatural increase. Since then Dr. Sesley has been used by God with a breakthrough anointing in the financial area.
Pastor Sesley has also been privileged to travel to the mission field to share the Good News. Some of Pastor Sesley's accomplishments include being the author of several books, ministering in churches and Convention Centers across America where thousands were in attendance, mentoring young pastors & ministers and being one of the founding members of the Southern California Ministers Fellowship. He has also served as an Area Director for the International Convention of Faith Churches and Ministries. In 2001, our Pastor, Dr. Kenneth R. Sesley, was inducted into the City of Compton's Spiritual Walk of Fame, as one of the leading pastors in the Compton! Currently Dr. Sesley sits on the Board of Trustees of Fellowship of Covenant Ministries International, which was founded by Dr. Philip Goudeaux, Pastor of Calvary Christian Center in Sacramento, CA, in 2004. In addition to being a Trustee for FCMI, Dr. Sesley is the Southwest I Regional Director which covers Southern California and the state of Hawaii.
In April of 2005 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, through a supernatural encounter, the Lord spoke to Dr. Sesley in an audible voice, calling Dr. Sesley's to become a church planter, expanding the call upon his life to national and global ministry. This would lead to the establishment of Kingdom Advancers Family Church International and Kenneth Sesley Ministries. In September 2005, the Lord directed Dr. Sesley to plant the first of many KAFCI churches in Carson, CA. On January 23, 2006, the first service was held at Ambler Elementary School, in the great city of Carson. There is a two-fold emphasis of KAFCI. The first is "Making Disciples that Multiply, Dominate and who Make a Difference" in their world and the world around them, through evangelism, discipleship and the multiplication of cell groups. The second is to Plant and Birth new churches across America and around the world and to help other pastors and ministers to become all that they can be for the Kingdom of God!
