Adeboye Marks 30 Years On The Pulpit

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Pastor Enoch Adeboye

Pastor Adeboye, General Overseer, RCCG

Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, will on Friday mark the 30th anniversary of his leadership  of the church. Adeboye disclosed this when he met with pastors of the church recently.

Daddy G. O., as he his fondly called by his numerous followers, instructed the pastors not to place any congratulatory messages in any print or electronic  medium; rather, everybody should use the occasion to pray for him and the church.

Pastor Adeboye, at the age of 37, took over the mantle of leadership of RCCG on Wednesday 21 January, 1981 after the demise of the founder Reverend Josiah  Olufemi Akindayomi. He inherited 26 parishes with fewer than 3,000 worshippers at inception.

On assumption, the former University of Lagos Senior Lecturer, who holds a PhD in Mathematics, dropped the title of reverend and simply chose to be addressed  as a pastor.

He introduced musical instruments and brought a lot of modernization to the church to bring the ‘high and mighty’ in the society to God and attract  worshippers beyond the traditional Yoruba base. He did all these to bring the vision which God gave the unlettered founder, Reverend Akindayomi to pass. One  of the visions is ‘to have a member of The RCCG in every family of all nations.’

Under his leadership, the church has recorded tremendous progress. At present, no fewer than 130 nations have at least a parish of The RCCG; there are 111  Provinces with more than 15,000 parishes in Nigeria alone. The church is regarded as the fastest growing church in the world today.

There is the Redemption Camp, which some faithful love to call city because of its completeness with schools, from nursery primary to university; hospitals –  Redeemer’s Clinic, Redeemer’s Health Centre and Redeemer’s Maternity Centre; hotels – four and five stars;  standard restaurants and cafeterias; a labyrinth  of tarred roads; 24 hours of electricity and regular supply of pipe-borne water; ‘Victoria Island and Lekki-type’ housing estate; low-cost housing units for  low income earners; bookshops and departmental stores.

Since the church has been generating its electricity, the residents have been enjoying uninterrupted power supply unlike what is happening in the country  where four hours of electricity in a day is a luxury.

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Equally, borehole is not necessary since the water works is supplying water regularly. A lot of faithful working and doing businesses in Victoria Island,  Ajah, Mainland, etc, choose to reside in the camp because of these facilities and many more.

Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye was born to Moses and Esther Adeboye on March 2, 1942 at Ifewara, Atakumosa West Local Government in Osun State. He had his  primary education at Anglican Primary School, Ilesa, he later proceeded to Ilesa Grammar School where he had his Secondary education.

He taught Mathematics briefly at Okeigbo/Ifetedo Grammar School before he gained admission to University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN. At UNN, he joined the  volleyball team not because of his love for the sport, but to have free meal and financial rewards it guaranteed athletes. The Nigerian civil war aborted his  plan to graduate from UNN. He later relocated to the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University where he graduated.

He returned to Okeigbo/Ifetedo Grammar School where the students nicknamed him ‘Pythagoras Theorem’ for the proficiency with which he solved Mathematics  problems.

He later had his Masters degree and PhD in Hydro Dynamics from the University of Lagos at the youthful age of 30.

His ambition then was to become the youngest Vice-Chancellor in Africa.

Pastor Adeboye was among the first set of Nigerians that used computer. He used it for his Masters degree in 1969.

— Femi Anjorin

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