An intimate friend suddenly visited him at Ibadan to tell him how  “money doublers” duped him and took all his life's savings. They both  decided to go after the criminals to retrieve the money. He said, “The result  of that mad venture was that we too started the illicit business of  counterfeiting coins… Since we have established a more lucrative  business than salesmanship, I resigned.” He went on, “We got money, lots  of it, but the money went the way it came—easy.” They became very popular, had many friends and people held them in high esteem. They  wore big robes and people called them “Sir”, “Esquire”. Timothy was  nick-named “Daily Woollen” because of the expensive clothes he wore  daily, but a few suspected them and wondered how they got into such  quick money. Friends became innumerable and they went deeper into the  world and into sin. This was the boy whom his father wanted to be a  minister of God! 

He went carousing from place to place and at Abeokuta in 1937, he  met a cousin who introduced him to a law enforcement agent who  pretended he was in financial straits. Timothy said, “The path was paved  for my arrest. In the course of the deal I was suspected of being in  possession of counterfeit coins. I was charged to Grade 'A' Customary  Court at Abeokuta … and locked up in a single cell. Alone in the solitary  cell, I had, as it were, a panorama of my past life and a heavy remorse came  into my heart. I reflected that I should have completed the Baptist  Theological Seminary course and become the pastor of a church if my  daddy's plans had been allowed to materialize. Then God spoke to me that  it was pride that had brought me thus far. I admitted and started to plead for  forgiveness. I entered into a covenant with God with vows that if in His  mercy He would set me free without being imprisoned, I would give the  honour and glory to Him alone. I would serve Him faithfully for the rest of  my life. I promised God I would not be engaged in the illegal business  again. 

“Early 1938, I was acquitted and set free by the court. When I  came out of police cell, I decided to stand on the vow I had made to God  while in trouble and so I destroyed everything that had to do with counterfeiting.” That was how Timothy found his way back to God  through the harrowing experience. Though he had thrown away his Bible  when young, he bought a new Bible and started to hunger for more of God.  He read his Bible and prayed, and the Lord continued to deal with his  heart. He did away with his old life and friends. 

He moved to Lagos in search of a job. He got one at the UAC (United Africa Company) as a tally clerk at the custom shed. “I put in a  prayer request at the CAC (Christ Apostolic Church) so that I might keep my job. Since I grew up in the Baptist Church, I continued to attend the  Baptist Church in Lagos. But as I went for prayers at the CAC, I got more  and more involved in praying and before I knew it, I was attending the  CAC regularly and so joined the Christ Apostolic Church in Lagos early  1939.” He cherished the time he had for prayer at the church premises  whenever he was off duty.