Bishop David O. Oyedepo (pictured in white) is the general overseer of Winners Chapel. COURTESY PHOTO.
Nigerian preacher and Christian author David O. Oyedepo says despite COVID-19 challenges, the ministry has been able to plant 10,000 churches this year.
This, 66-year-old added, was done without raising an offering.
Nigeria, with a population of about 200 million people, has had more than 71,000 confirmed cases and nearly 1,200 deaths as of Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
“In spite of Covid-19 noisesome pestilence, we planted 10,000 Churches without raising an offering. We will show the devil and his agents pepper,” Bishop Oyedepo said, according to the Vanguard Newspaper.
Oyedepo who is the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, also known as Winners’ Chapel International, explained during the yearly Shiloh programme that commenced 8 December 2020, and will run till 13 December 2020, that his passion for serving God led him into ministry.
“There is nothing magical in the kingdom. Everything follows God laid down procedures. … I am not called a leader, God only pay labourers. Only labouring leaders live a profitable life, setting exemplary life for others to follow,” he said.
Oyedepo received Christ as his personal Lord and Savior in 1969 during his high school days. According to sources, he received a mandate from God through an 18-hour vision in May 1981, to liberate the world from all oppression of the devil through the preaching of the word of faith.
He studied architecture at the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin and worked briefly with the Federal Ministry of Housing in Ilorin before resigning to concentrate on missionary work.
