God’s Generals: RCCG’s Pst. Enoch Adeboye; Living Faith’s Pst. David Oyedepo; Deeper Life’s Pst. Willam Kumuyi; Dunamis’ Pst. Paul Enenche; among numerous others, to grace the PFN’s 3-day 40th anniversary in Abuja.
By Patience Bassey
Nigerian Pentecostal Christians under the aegis of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) will converge in Abuja for three days this week to celebrate the group’s 40th anniversary, which is holding from Feb. 12 to 14.
Dr Paul Enenche, the General Overseer and Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre (DIGC), disclosed this on Sunday in Abuja.
Enenche said the three-day biennial conference would be hosted by his church in its 100,000-seater auditorium called the Glory Dome in the Lord’s Garden on Airport Road.
The Glory Dome, commissioned in November 2018, has already undergone a massive renovation in readiness for the event.
The flyer for the conference, endorsed by PFN President Wale Oke, listed some of the prominent Pentecostal Christian leaders in the country as speakers and ministers at the event.
They include the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Enoch Adeboye, presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel, David Oyedepo, and the General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Bible Church, William Kumuyi.
Others are the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Daniel Olukoya, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor of Word of Life Bible Church, Mike Okonkwo of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, and Margaret Idahosa of the Church of God Mission (CGM).
Pastor David Ibiyomie of Salvation Ministries, Sam Aboyeji of FourSquare Gospel Church, Mercy Ezekiel of the Christian Pentecostal Mission (CPM) and the host, Enenche, are also among those to minister.
Also invited to minister are Rev Uma Ukpai, Felix Omobude, Isa El-Buba, Victor Kanmi, Paul Nwachukwu, Cosmas Ilechukwu, John-Praise Daniel, Elijah Abira, Poju Oyemade, William Okoye of All Christians Fellowship Mission, and Isaac Komolafe.
The conference will also feature popular gospel singers and worship leaders, including Nathaniel Bassey, Dusin Oyekan, Solomon Lange and Prospa Ochimana.
Enenche enjoined all church members and other pentecostal Christians nationwide to attend the event.
“It’s a great blessing to have them in our midst.
“It’s going to be a week of great blessings,” he said.
Enenche also announced that the power communion service of the church, which holds every Wednesday, has been shifted back to Tuesday because of the anniversary.
Founded in 1985, PFN is a body of all Pentecostal churches and Christians in the country, and one of the five blocs of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), the umbrella body of all Christians in Nigeria.
The other blocs are the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), Christian Council of Nigeria (CCN), Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC), and Evangelical Church Winning All/ Fellowship of Churches of Christ in Nigeria.
Seven presidents have led PFN during its 40 years of existence.
The founding president was James Boyejo of the FourSquare Gospel Church (1985-1992), Enoch Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (1992-1995), Benson Idahosa of the Church of God Mission (1995-1998), and Mike Okonkwo (1998-2005).
Others are Ayo Oritsejafor of Word of Life Bible Church (2005-2013), Felix Omobude of New Covenant Gospel Church (2013-2021), and the incumbent, Wale Oke, of Sword of the Spirit Church, who assumed office in 2021.
