IRENE IDU

Pastor Irene Idu was born in the Dutch Caribbean Island of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. She experienced salvation as a teenage and developed a fervent desire for missions.

As a determined young woman, she left her family and moved to The Netherlands in pursuit of a highly promising medical career.

Despite her top performance and a government placement in the highly competitive Dutch medical school, she continued to feel a strong call into the ministry. and finally obeyed this call, dedicating her life fully to the Lord’s service.

Shortly after this, it became clear to her that she was going to spend the rest of her life with Emmanuel, a young preacher she met in Tilburg, Netherlands.

They got married on 29 August 1998 and served as senior pastors of the then Winners Church International, in Tilburg, Netherlands, for several years, before going to pioneer Destiny Church International, on the Island of her birth. The couple later moved to Asia.

Today, she is her husband’s chief partner in the ministry, and a dedicated mother. Pastor Irene enjoys helping women develop their unique qualities, in the spirit of excellence, and works to help them accomplish their life’s purposes.

She also loves to challenge and educate youths towards early maturity and maximum effectiveness in life. Her straight-to-the-point and “call-it-by-the-name” approach, and a strong ministry anointing often result in deep convictions, strong motivations, insightful inspirations, and deliverances when she speaks.

She challenges the church to fear God, work with passion, know the Holy Spirit, and to pay the price for the High Calling.

Her heart of compassion led her to set up an orphanage in Rwanda, shortly after the heinous genocide in that country. She is the founder of Women of Destiny, a conference-driven network designed to empower women through proven principles of the Bible. She has served on the mission field for several years.

Irene continues to mentor women in private, and to write, while working along with her husband to oversee the growing number of churches under their leadership.

Irene and her husband, Emmanuel, are blessed with two daughters, Caroline, and Darielle.