When was rccg founded

So the church puts up Jesus Christ as its primary guide. Pastor E. Adeboye, the year-old leader of the church, is also constructed as a leading guide: He is recognized as humble and accessible and fondly called Daddy G. General Overseer by his followers. In the early s, the RCCG was part of the "emerging church" movement that thrived on incorporating popular culture, higher education and deliberate proselytization of the very rich in a drive to make the gospel attractive and respectable to a larger urban base but also to expand this base.

The youth who graduated from the universities in the s and s are now prominent economic and political players in Nigeria who publicly identify with the church and largely fund its evangelical activities.

The flagship of the church's evangelical schedule is the monthly Holy Ghost Service, held the first Friday of the month and attracting nearly half a million attendees. This event started in and its success led to the introduction of similar events within and outside Nigeria. The Holy Ghost Service may be rightly characterized as the pillar of the RCCG missionary movement abroad, an instrument of "reserve mission" and cultural adaptation of the church in many other parts of the world which has made RCCG a successful Pentecostal and missionary church from Africa to the rest of the world today.

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Richard Vijgen Grantee. Project Atlas of Pentecostalism. The church history originates from when it was first founded. Even though his family worshipped idols, Akindayomi searched for the greater power and believed that it is there somewhere. He had a dream to encounter the higher entity that created the world and denied the beliefs that his family was sticking to.

Akindayomi knew very little about the Christian faith, but it was his true calling. Femi Fani-Kayode dispels rumours that he's taking a 5th wife, calls alleged lady his source of immense comfort. The passion of the young man led him to the Church Missionary Society. He was baptized there in However, Akindayomi still felt unfulfilled spiritually, which led him to join the Cherubim and Seraphim Church in This religious institution was an indigenous church of Africa, which came from the Anglican Church in Nigeria, also called Episcopal Church of Nigeria.

While Akindayomi was still involved with Cherubim and Seraphim church, he understood his true calling — to serve God. He ignored the calls for a few years and tried to pursue his businesses for seven years, only to meet failure. This time became a key period in his life and marked the start of his relationship with God. However, when all of his businesses came to a dead end and he found himself broke and dependent on God, he agreed to go wherever God will lead him.

He wanted confirmation it was truly the voice of God speaking to him and he eventually found this confirmation in the Bible. As he said, the Almighty has assured him that he will not need money, as the higher powers will provide him with everything.

This knowledge comforted him in the next months and years. How my life changed 3 months after I got a call that my house was on fire - Man reveals. Akindayomi got married in and continued worshipping God in the Cherubim and Seraphim church. In the next years, he got more and more convinced to leave the church, and in , he finally did it. This was the new chapter in his life because he felt empowered to found his own church, where he would preach the Word of God and send the message from Almighty to the people.

Originally, this fellowship involved only nine members. The church continued to meet at 9, Willoughby Street until they acquired some land and relocated to their headquarters at 1 — 5 Redemption Way, Ebute-Metta, Lagos formerly 1a Cemetery Street and later the Redemption Camp.

Today the church has become one of the fastest growing Pentecostal churches in the world. RCCG, has since grown from when Pastor Adeboye took charge, to over 14, parishes in Nigeria and branches in over a hundred countries. Against all odds, he graduated from the University in , at the age of Between and he had added two more degrees, an M.

Sc in Hydrodynamics and a Ph. D in Applied Mathematics. He later became a lecturer at the University of University of Lagos and Ilorin before he was called into full time ministry.