Welcome to The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Miracle Centre Athens

The Origin

The Redeemed Christian church of God was started in 1952 by Rev. Josiah Akindayomi. It started at Willoughby Street, Ebute-Metta, Lagos in a house fellowship called, the Glory of God Fellowship. Initially there were nine members but before long the fellowship rapidly grew as the news of the miracles that occurred in their midst spread and soon they were able to acquire some land nearby where is the present site of the Headquarters of the church at 1-5 Redemption Way, Ebute-Metta, Lagos (formerly 1a, Cemetery Street).

 Akindayomi also had a vision of words that appeared to be written on a blackboard. The words were “The Redeemed Christian Church of God.” Amazingly, Pa Akindayomi who could not read or write was supernaturally able to write these words down.

In this visitation, God also said to him that

• This church would go to the ends of the earth and
• That when the Lord Jesus Christ appeared in glory, He would meet the church.
• He said that He the Lord would meet all the needs of the church in an awesome way if only members would serve Him faithfully and be obedient to His Word. It is upon this covenant that the Redeemed Christian Church of God was built.

Sometime in the early 70s, God had spoken to Pa Akindayomi about his successor. The Lord told him that this man who was not a member of the church then, would be a young educated man. Thus when a young university lecturer joined the church in 1973, Papa was able to recognize him in the Spirit as the one that the Lord had spoken about in the past. This man, Enoch Adejare Adeboye who was then a lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Lagos soon became involved in the church. He became one of the interpreters translating Pa Akindayomi’s sermons from Yoruba to English. He was ordained a pastor of the church in 1975. Pa Josiah Akindayomi was 71 years old when he died and Pastor Adeboye was formally ordained as the General Overseer of the church in 1981.

Since  then an open explosion began with the number of parishes growing. As at some years back, there are at least about 2000 parishes of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria. The church is presently in other African nations including C’ote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Gambia, Cameroon,  South Africa and many more. The church is spreading all over Europe such as in England, Germany, and France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Finland, Sweden, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Estonia. Also in the United States, Asia and Middle East including Israel.