It all began with the quest for a young man who always knew his destiny was to touch as many lives as possible and this prompted him to always look for a way to torch the live of all who came in contact with him. The philanthropic of Dr. Adedeji T. Adeleke traces back even before the establishment of Springtime Development Foundation (SDF) a non-profit making, non-governmental organization. The birth of SDF was to harness and account for his philanthropic deeds.

SDF had its seed sowed in 1995 as a result of his attendance of the world General Conference Session of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church held in Utrecht, Netherlands between June and July 1995. The General Conference meeting is always held after every five (5) years and has in attendance spiritual leaders and members of the SDA Church. Such was the case of this dedicated couple, Dr.AdedejiAdeleke and his beloved late wife, Dr. (Mrs) Veronica Adeleke who were attending the General Conference of our Church for the first time, and who became the sponsors and donor of SDF. The Adelekes were torched by listening to the challenging soul winning report of a lay church member in massive support of God’s work in his part of the world field. Therefore to assist our churches in Nigeria meet up with the set goals of soul winning as against the set targets to be reported at the General Conference of 2000 which held in Canada.

Ever since the birth of SDF in 1996, it has been service to God and Humanity all the way. The services being rendered by SDF through the benevolence of Dr.Adeleke includes but not limited to the following:

1. CHURCH DEVELOPMENT

In this service, SDF purchases land in very special case, participate in theroofing of church buildings and construction of lamb shelters, modest church buildings or the completion of uncompleted church buildings in special areas throughout the country.

SDF prints different seminar materials such as Daniel and Revelation prophecy seminar materials, provide other needed materials such as tracts, magazines, Bible etc, provide funds for other expenses to mobilize the districts, e.g. advertisement, transportation, and expansion of their headquarters, etc

Under this service he has awarded scholarships to over a thousand individuals ranging from secondary school students, Ede Indigenes, church members in tertiary institutions, medical students, nursing students, postgraduate students and Ph.D programmes for Pastors.

under this service he has supplied pipe-borne water to rural and urban areas of Nigeria, funded agricultural projects and sponsored seminars for youth on topics that eventually help improve their living situations e.g. Empowerment, marriage e.t.c.

Realising the importance of education as the bedrock of development, he is involved in school building, provision of furniture and school equipment and most recently, floating a University of his own.

He organises through SDF life changing skill acquisition seminars in different communities designed to equip people with relevant saleable skill that can enable them sustain themselves.

He is involved in the provision of the much needed health education awareness to ensure prolonged healthy lives of various communities such as: hospital building development, provision of drugs, equipment and other medical supplies

He is through SDF also involved in disaster management settlement programmes, donation of essential materials to motherless babies’ homes, rehabilitation of centres, provision of essential materials to inmates of prisons or penitentiaries, provision of care for the orphans, aged and destitute around the country and provision of generators to deserving churches and communities.

In the past Twenty (20) years of existence, SDF from its inception runs a budget of not less than One Hundred Million naira (N100,000,000) every year and presently operates it 2011 budget of One Hundred and Seventy naira (N170,000,000).