Winners' Chapel
Winners' Chapel (also known as Living Faith Church ) is a megachurch founded by David Oyedepo in Kaduna , Nigeria in 1981 . It is now used in over 50 countries worldwide. There are more than 400 churches in Nigeria alone. The central doctrine of the Church is the all-possibility of faith within earthly existence, including the possibility of healing diseases through prayer and achieving material prosperity.
The headquarters of the Winners' Chapel is called the Faith Tabernacle . It is built within a church area of over 200 hectares called Canaanland in Ota , a suburb of Lagos . The Faith Tabernacle is one of the largest church buildings in the world with a capacity of over 50,000 seats inside and 250,000 outside. A private university donated by the church, the Covenant University , as well as its own publishing house, which publishes literature written by Oyedepo, is also housed on the site .
Winners' Chapel maintains several elementary and high schools in Nigeria. She also has her own Bible seminar called the Word of Faith Bible Institute (WOFBI) . With offices in more than thirty countries, it is the largest institute of its kind established in Nigeria. The church also has two passenger planes and a fleet of 350 vehicles that transport church visitors to and from Canaanland. A branch of the Winners' Chapel Mission Society, Ministry World Mission Agency (WMA) , is dedicated to charitable work, especially for the needy within the community.
Every December the Winners' Chapel calls a large assembly called the Shiloh . During the Shiloh meeting in 2007, Oyedepo announced that the Church had started building six more universities across Africa.
The church, which belongs to the Pentecostal movement, sees itself founded on twelve pillars:
| Twelve stones Jos 4, 1–8 EU ; 4.20-24 EU |
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|---|---|---|
| Faith 1 Joh 5,4 EU ; Eph 6,16 EU |
Welfare 3 Joh 2 EU ; Ps 35.27 EU ; Sach 1.17 EU |
Success Jos 1,8-10 EU |
| The word Joh 1,1-12 EU ; Heb 1.3 EU |
Prayer 1 Joh 5,14 EU |
Vision Prov 29:18 EU ; Jer 29.11 EU |
| The supernatural Ps 82,5-7 EU ; Joh 3,8 EU |
Healing Isa 53,3-4 EU ; Jer 8.22 EU ; Mt 8.17 EU |
Consecration Heb 12,14 EU ; 2 Tim 2.19 EU |
| The Holy Spirit Acts 1,1-8 EU ; Isa 10:27 EU |
Wisdom Prov 24,3-4 EU ; Isa 33.6 EU |
Praise 2 Chr 20,20-22 EU ; Ps 67,1-7 EU ; 149.1-9 EU |
literature
- Igbekele Selome, The Living Faith Church (Winners Chapel), Nigeria: Pentecostalism, prosperity gospel and social change in Nigeria . Dissertation, Bayreuth 2007.
- Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 22, 2009, page 10
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 12 pillar messages - David Oyedepo Ministries International Online Digital Media Store. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 2, 2014 ; Retrieved November 2, 2014 .