Rev. Reuben E. Ezemadu is the founding (and currently the International) Director) of the Christian Missionary Foundation Inc. with about 383 missionaries in Nigeria and nine other countries in Africa and beyond. He has also served as the pioneer General Secretary and later as the Chairman of NEMA (Nigeria Evangelical Missionary Association) from 1983 until 1995. He served on the WEA Missions Commission during his tenures as General Secretary and Chairman of NEMA In addition, he served as the General Coordinator of the Third World Missions Association (TWMA) for ten years. Currently he is the CONTINENTAL COORDINATOR of the MOVEMENT FOR AFRICAN NATIONAL INITIATIVES (MANI) after serving as the National Coordinator of NIGERIAN FINISH THE TASK NETWORK (NIGERIA FINTASK) and the Anglophone West Africa Coordinator of the Movement for African National Initiatives (MANI) (both former AD 2000 & Beyond Movement offshoots). He was a Co-Convenor of the Issue Group on Two Thirds World Church in 2004 Lausanne World Forum on Evangelization. He is also on the International Facilitating Team of the Great Commission Roundtable (GCR) as well as the Nigeria Ministry Center Director of the Development Associates International (DAI)
His contributions to the development of the missionary movement in Nigeria and beyond were recognized through two awards he received in 1998: the maiden “1998 AKANU IBIAM AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING PROMOTION OF THE VISION AND WORK OF CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONS” by Wesley International Theological Seminary (now West African Theological Seminary), and the “1998 WOSOM MERIT AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS IN MISSIONS WORK” by World Outreach School of Missions. An honorary DOCTOR OF DIVINITY degree was awarded to him and three other pioneers of the mission movement in Nigeria by the World Link University in February 2005 during the presentation of the biographical documentary on them by the Alliance Research Network International titled “Indigenous Missions In Nigeria: Pioneers Behind the Scene”
He has authored a number of books on Missions such as Towards the Evangelization of Nigeria (Ed), Partnering to Build The Kingdom (Ed), A compilation of the Amsterdam 2000 Strategists Workgroup Resource Materials (Ed); Missions: The Heartbeat of God (Author); Missions and You (Author); Missions Mobilization(A Manual for Mobilizing Men, Money and Materials for Missions) (Author), Sending and Supporting African Missionaries in the 21st Century (2005) (Author), Models, Issues and Structures of Indigenous Missions in Africa (2006) (Editor); and contributed several articles to other publications among which are the following: Missionary Efforts in Nigeria: Past, Present and Future in The Final Harvest; Financing Missions in A Depressed Economy in The Church Leader in Africa; The Location of the Harvest in Mobilizing the Harvest Force.
He is married to Mrs. Bosede Olaitan Ezemadu and blessed with four children (Chika, Chuks, Buchi and Joshua) and a grand-daughter (Chinwe)