Samuel Adebayo OLAWALE2024-07-012024-07-012023-12Kate TurabianM.Schttps://repository.lcu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/624As vital as pastoral leadership skill is to the spiritual growth of a multicultural church, some church leaders do not have it. The study investigated the extent to which leadership skill is effective in enhancing the spiritual growth of members in multicultural churches in Akinyele Local Government Area, of Oyo State with a view to examine features, identify dimensions of leadership skills that are in use, examine the extent to which leadership skills impacts on spiritual growth of members and also suggest positive ways of improving leadership skills capable of enhancing spiritual growth of members in multicultural churches in the selected area. Descriptive survey research design was used in this study with two set of questionnaires, one for 120 members and the second for 24 leaders of the selected churches. Every church leader is expected to see him or herself as member of all cultural groups present in the church, being as well a predominant way of improving leadership skill in a multicultural church. Leaders should avoid ethnocentrism in decision making within the church, learn other languages and using them while communicating with them as a way of improving leadership skill in a multicultural church. Communication Accommodation Theory, which posits that individuals are motivated to use language in different form to achieve a desired level of social distance between them and their listener, was adopted in this study. Based on the findings of this study, the following recommendations were made: Multicultural church leaders should be trained and retrained on doctrinal teaching for sound doctrine to members of the church. Multicultural church leaders should be motivated and furnished with necessary facilities for effective teaching, preaching and worship that are all embracing in multicultural church setting. Keywords: Leadership skills, spiritual growth, multicultural church, Akinyele Local government, church leader. Word Count: 284enThesis