Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Nobody: 8:51am On Dec 25, 2017 |
DO JET-SETTING CHURCHES CARE FOR THE POOR?
By Leke Beecroft
As early as April 1984 in a service in the young Living Faith Church where the total offering was ten naira (N10.00), the whole amount was given to one person who had come to Church looking very gloomy to sort out his personal issues. All other jet owning Churches in this category namely the Adeboye led RCCG, Oyakhilome’s Christ Embassy, Ayo Oritsejafor’s Word of Life and please permit me in this instance, the man in the Synagogue, I know as the most vibrant and generous Churches with regards to giving to the poor even though most of them do not have a system of broadcasting it.
Is it Ayo Oritsejafor’s annual program where he gives cars, keke NAPEP (Marwa), grinding machines, motor cycles etc while doling out large sums of money in Warri regardless of their religion or denomination? Is it Chris Oyakhilome’s Inner City Mission which takes special interest in feeding little children? Are we looking at tons of otherwise unemployed youth who have crossed from poverty to wealth on the basis of the foundation given by him? Have we forgotten that Frank Edward was a hawker before God changed his story miraculously? Why do great people like Sinach, Buchi, Joe Praize, Samsong, Frank Edward, Eben and others always seem to get on our nerves when appreciating Pastor Chris? Is it not because he was the one that gave them the required push and we all now wait for and rush any latest material by any of them? How many of them could be termed as rich before meeting Pastor Chris?
Is it Winners Chapel annual N500m non-interest loans or help to crisis ridden areas like Sierra Leone and Rwanda? Her gift to Osun State workers, rescue mission with food supply and provision of Pipe-borne water on Koma Hills, Heavy consignments to Ikeja blast victims, mission in Southern Sudan, face lift of Omu Aran, fixing of road in Ota which was to be done at N560 million naira while the State Government had billed the same road for N4.4 billion naira? Are we talking about Oyedepo’s mandate that no primary school aged child should be out of school in the Church? Have we forgotten Nkechi Okwuone’s testimony at Shiloh 2017 where she said as directed by the Bishop, members should all have a ‘help list’ (most will ignore this but attack tithing). All those good at listening to stuff from church to criticize all played deaf to that testimony by her where she said 5% of her income was kept specifically for the needy on her her help list. It becomes more interesting when you find that the Church according to her 5 year old constitution, the Mandate allocates some percentage of her income to the poor annually in her posterity mandate which is aimed at feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, providing shelter for the homeless and total emancipation of humanity. It is also humorous that all the critics are too blind to see it. I will not forget to mention the multi-million naira David Oyedepo Scholarship Scheme which thousands of indigent student have benefited from as well as the fact that Landmark University awards more scholarship than any other university in Nigeria.
The RCCG is another major example of a Church ministering to the needs of the poor. Infact the RCCG is addressing the elephant in the room. At least 50% of the young people reading this article are on some form of cheap illegal substance or the other. That is where CADAM of RCCG presently headed by Dokun Ayodeji comes in. Statistics have it that 7 out of 10 youth in Nigeria are engaged in drugs. Calabar and Warri are particularly notable cases where the statistics are probably higher.
The N200 million CADAM Ultra-Modern Rehabiltation Centre in Araga-Epe, Lagos is a case in point. Christ Against Drug Abuse Ministry-CADAM, a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts and abusers is an initiative of the RCCG established In 1991, CADAM was started as a department in church CADAM has assisted more than 2000 beneficiaries, most of whom have become professionals and well-to-do persons in the society.
What about the refurbishment, upgrade and equipping of Intensive Care Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. The Intensive Care Unit equipped with multi-million naira facilities including 5,000 ICU Beds, four Alpha-Active Mattresses, B-Braun Infusion Pumps, Syringe Pumps, Multi-Parameter Patient monitors and bedside lockers?
The influence of THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD is beyond the four walls of Nigeria as the church’s presence is in over 190 countries of the world.
Thousands of CSR activities has been embarked upon by the Church both home and abroad. They also have many sponsored mission fields all over the world irrespective of the denomination. Yet, the passion to do more is an undeniable thirst for Enoch Adeboye. Here are some more of the contributions of this jet-setting Church to humanity; I will list only 20 for want of time and space:
1. Donation of the Enoch Adeboye Community center for the homeless in Delaware, USA.
This community center serves as a place of refuge for the homeless and those in need of help. Some of its benefits includes a free health care services, Internet access, bed spaces, bathrooms, feeding etc.
2. Construction of a road at Eliada Community, Rumuogba Town, Obio/Akpor LGA of Rivers State, Nigeria which links the church, an estate and a clinic.
3. Sponsoring of some less privileged children. This includes the payment of their school fees in Wesley Methodist Nursery and Primary School, Ikom and other basic needs of the children.
4. Donation of free diapers to Nursing mothers at Meiran Health Centre in Ijaiye LGA, Lagos
5. Renovation 57-year-old Police Station in Lagos.
6. Fixing of Abandoned and unmotorable 15km stretch of road in Osun State; From the Palace of the King in Ile-Ife to the Palace of the King in Ifewara (Adeboye’s place of birth) such that farmers might be able to get their harvest to potential buyers in urban areas.
7. Building & equipping a 12-classroom block as donation to Ojodu Primary School.
8. Countless traders smiling to the banks during RCCG Conventions.
9. Donation of foodstuff to unpaid Oyo State civil servants.
10. Donation of chairs and tables to Meiran Community Primary School in Ayobo Ipaja LCDA in Lagos.
11. Free Feeding of about 7 million people from 80 nations during RCCG Annual Conventions
12. Free Clinics and hospitals such as ‘healing stripes’ where Nigerians can walk to and receive treatment for free.
13. Donation of sports complex in Lagos in a bid to ensure that more young souls are won for Christ.
14. Provision of Medical Supplies to the People of Vanuatu.
15. Feeding of prisoners in Nigeria’s major prison, Kirikiri Maximum Prison on Sunday.
16. Training of 5000 Ilupeju residents on vocational skills as part of the CSR of the church to members of its community.
17. Over N350million has been donated to an Educational initiative called "Pastor E.A. Adeboye Professorial Chair of Maths". This money was donated to State owned universities in Nigeria to improve the educational situation.
18. Free allocation of landed property to Church members to build houses.
19. Renovation of 4 police stations in Surulere area of Lagos State.
20. Payment of education bills for its full time national staffs children up till University level. This applies to the first three kids.
Effectively, we have a situation where the Church is busy filling so many many gaps that government has been unable to fill but ironically still receives the flak from the indiscernible public for not doing more to help the government. Where should energies be directed? If the Church manages just a tenth of what the government earns, truth is, we would have a different Nigeria already.
On a tour of Covenant University (CU) and during a private conversation by former President Obasanjo and Bishop Oyedepo, they came across the CU-Library, one of the biggest in Africa. ‘How much did you spend to build this’? asked President Obasanjo. Oyedepo responded that it cost N500 million naira. Obasanjo exclaimed loudly in amazement “Even if you hit your head against the ground, you will never get this out with that amount in government. Officials at all levels of government will take out theirs before leaving the remnant for the job”.Obasanjo should know because he built a presidential library for which about N50 billion naira was raised while he governed Nigeria for over 11 years cummulatively. I have visited that library and I know the difference between the N500 million naira CU Library at Ota and the N50 billion naira Presidential Library at Abeokuta. You can go see for yourself.
As regards cost of her schools, a simple illustration. The secondary school at the University of Lagos the International School, Lagos (ISL) a day school charges same amount of fees as Faith Academy (FA), Canaanland, a boarding school. In a discussion with a student who had crossed over from one of the schools to the other, she noted that there were an average of 20 students in a class at FA while there were up to 50 in a class at ISL. ISL, a government owned school only deals with students during the week days while FA accommodates and feeds the students-for the same amount. Do the maths. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1244595659017636&id=444807728996437 3 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Nobody: 8:56am On Dec 25, 2017 |
Mirand606:
Is it Winners Chapel annual N500m non-interest loans or help to crisis ridden areas like Sierra Leone and Rwanda? Her gift to Osun State workers, rescue mission with food supply and provision of Pipe-borne water on Koma Hills, Heavy consignments to Ikeja blast victims, mission in Southern Sudan, face lift of Omu Aran, fixing of road in Ota which was to be done at N560 million naira while the State Government had billed the same road for N4.4 billion naira? On a tour of Covenant University (CU) and during a private conversation by former President Obasanjo and Bishop Oyedepo, they came across the CU-Library, one of the biggest in Africa. How much did you spend to build this? asked President Obasanjo. Oyedepo responded that it cost N500 million naira. Obasanjo exclaimed loudly in amazement and said Even if you hit your head against the ground, you will never get this out with that amount in government. Officials at all levels of government will take out theirs before leaving the remnant for the job.Obasanjo should know because he built a presidential library for which about N50 billion naira was raised while he governed Nigeria for over 11 years cummulatively. I have visited that library and I know the difference between the N500 million naira CU Library at Ota and the N50 billion naira Presidential Library at Abeokuta. You can go see for yourself.
I like this part. True depiction of Nigeria. All govt contracts are truly inflated. 14 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by osumak2: 9:18am On Dec 25, 2017 |
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Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by KushyKush: 9:18am On Dec 25, 2017 |
The only church that gives a fück about the poor is synagogue. (Even the country appreciates synagogue as a church for their many works and services to mankind)
Other churches are only after your tithes, Thanksgiving money, pastor's welfare money, building donations and Sunday offerings.
Those quoting me can go ahead and suck my dick twice everyTuesday.
Your church is owned by a criminal who feeds on your money and in return says the exact thing you can read in your Bible free of charge at home. ![tongue](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/tongue.png)
Even those churches don't pay Taxs yet their say God will curse you whenever you don't pay tithes. Talk about double standards and fuckery. ![grin](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/grin.png) 28 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Kinspeel: 9:19am On Dec 25, 2017 |
No they don't |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by rattlesnake(m): 9:20am On Dec 25, 2017 |
All this don't still justify tithes 4 Likes |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Nobody: 9:20am On Dec 25, 2017 |
Kinspeel: No they don't Go and read the article slowly 6 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by grin88(m): 9:21am On Dec 25, 2017 |
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Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Nobody: 9:21am On Dec 25, 2017 |
Below is the jet bought by late owner of bethel.enroute to ending up as scrap in a yard owned by omotola's husband. If the late pastor had used d money to build hospital or sponsor members education e for no better ni ![](/faces/huh.png) 13 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by bedspread: 9:21am On Dec 25, 2017 |
Winners that I schooled in and know a bit does 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Nobody: 9:22am On Dec 25, 2017 |
KushyKush: The only church that gives a fück about the poor is synagogue.
Other churches are only after your tithes and offerings. I think you should reread the article. While i think them Pentecostal churches should do more...it is not true to say they do absolutely nothing.And this article proves it. I think that we should also focus more on doing some giving to the needy ourselves, don't you think? 12 Likes |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by makky555(f): 9:22am On Dec 25, 2017 |
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Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Nobody: 9:23am On Dec 25, 2017 |
There is nothing you can do to satisfy the children of darkness.
All the children of darkness do is to cry and criticize. Has any tithe payer complained about tithing.
Is there any church people are forced to pay tithes?
I think Christians should continue to ignore this children of darkness.
When they are done throwing their wives out of the house, breaking their children leg they come on Twitter and claim to be pastors. Trust their idi0tic and myopic followers on nairaland will come as usual to write rvbbish courtesy of tecno phones 28 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Standardcosting(m): 9:23am On Dec 25, 2017 |
Okay |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Standardcosting(m): 9:23am On Dec 25, 2017 |
K Come and delete this one again |
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Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Nobody: 9:23am On Dec 25, 2017 |
KushyKush: The only church that gives a fück about the poor is synagogue.
Other churches are only after your tithes, Thanksgiving money, pastor's welfare money, building donations and Sunday offerings. Your poverty has just began . Continue waiting for Oyedepo to come and liberate you from your poverty.
You cannot work? Shame on you son 14 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by AkpaMgbor(m): 9:24am On Dec 25, 2017 |
KushyKush: The only church that gives a fück about the poor is synagogue.
Other churches are only after your tithes, Thanksgiving money, pastor's welfare money, building donations and Sunday offerings. Shut it! Because others don’t devote tv time to showing what they do for people doesn’t mean they aren’t doing anything..even the Bible and Christ admonished us not broadcast the good we do to others.. 16 Likes |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by LaExpert: 9:24am On Dec 25, 2017 |
Critics won't see this.
MFM gives out cars annually to first class graduates and so many scholarships for undergraduates and to the less privileged to encourage hardwork. 16 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Ranchhoddas: 9:25am On Dec 25, 2017 |
Nice try. Attempting to paint your masters in good light. What is their general impact on the population? Drop in the ocean. The kind of opulent lives which these men live make a mockery of whatever acts of charity they might appear to carry out especially in a country like Nigeria.
In a badly-governed society, wealth is something to be ashamed of--- Confucius. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Nobody: 9:25am On Dec 25, 2017 |
KushyKush: The only church that gives a fück about the poor is synagogue.
Other churches are only after your tithes, Thanksgiving money, pastor's welfare money, building donations and Sunday offerings. are you okay? 3 Likes |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Nobody: 9:25am On Dec 25, 2017 |
makky555:
Go and open your own church and buy your own jet and stop disturbing us with your long essay of crap abeg ..
And no I didn't read the article Go read it, sweet cheeks, you might have your mind changed! Never judge a book by its cover. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Nobody: 9:26am On Dec 25, 2017 |
KushyKush: The only church that gives a fück about the poor is synagogue.
Other churches are only after your tithes, Thanksgiving money, pastor's welfare money, building donations and Sunday offerings. They do. And you know because they told you. If they(synagogue) didn't tell you, you wouldn't know. Even as someone who pays attention to the leadership of Living Faith I find it incredibly hard to track their givings. But at least sometime ago I discovered the Church had given 500 million naira to her widows(that was hard to find out). The church could decide to spend half of that on widows and the rest on publicity and you would be misled but that is not how we roll. Sometime ago Someone on Nairaland took a picture of Oyedepo at a high school reunion. Statsocial confirmed that the architecture of that Hall was a Living Faith hall and when Church Gist took up the story(I think from Nairaland) they were able to further probe from the church and we discovered that He(Oyedepo) had refurbished over 20 schools in that area and was paying the salary of some staff - So following Churches givings is a full time work and thank God Leke has an ORG that aims to "gist" on Churches and her activities. Follow Church Gist on Facebook. 9 Likes |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by makky555(f): 9:28am On Dec 25, 2017 |
9jakohai:
Go read it, sweet cheeks, you might have your mind changed!
Never judge a book by its cover.
I know... Sorry ![sad](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/sad.png) I thought you were one of those freeze people... I don't read their crap... So I thought you were one... Good work... I'm cheering for you 4 Likes |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Nobody: 9:28am On Dec 25, 2017 |
I always wonder why people take so much energy to talk against this men... if they all made public their generosity people will say they are not following Jesus... mind you a poor man cannot have a treasurer 4 Likes |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by lexy2014: 9:29am On Dec 25, 2017 |
9jakohai:
I think you should reread the article.
While i think them Pentecostal churches should do more...it is not true to say they do absolutely nothing.And this article proves it.
I think that we should also focus more on doing some giving ourselves, don't you think? is leke beecroft now d public relations manager of winners and rccg? 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by MrMcJay(m): 9:30am On Dec 25, 2017 |
People are asking fundamental questions and I see so-called Christians insulting and cursing those asking questions. It is when one loses an argument that he begins to shout and curse.
It is very valid to ask what the churches do as charity. Under the laws of Nigeria, churches are registered as charities and are therefore NGOs. They are tax exempt because it is assumed their funds are for charitable purposes.
Therefore, and Christian that finds such questions offensive is simply using feigned anger to cover his embarrassment at the shortcomings of the church organisation registered as a charity but not performing charitable acts. 4 Likes |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Next2Bezee(m): 9:30am On Dec 25, 2017 |
To all those worshipping and celebrating these jet riding false profits/prophets, ignorance will not be an excuse during judgement.
2 Peter 2:1-3 - “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.”
Matthew 7:15 - “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Nobody: 9:32am On Dec 25, 2017 |
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Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by opestein: 9:32am On Dec 25, 2017 |
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Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by Nobody: 9:32am On Dec 25, 2017 |
lexy2014: is leke beecroft now d public relations manager of winners and rccg? No he is a Church Historian and Researcher. However he is very connected to the top leadership of Churches especially Nigerian Pentecostals. His Organization also helps to propagate Church programs across non denominational divides. He has been around for a while but this current wave of controversies magnified his voice along. If you want to know much about Nigerian Christianity he is one of the most reliable sources. 1 Like |
Re: Do Jet Owning Churches Care For The Poor - By Leke Beecroft by mofedamijo(m): 9:32am On Dec 25, 2017 |
KushyKush: The only church that gives a fück about the poor is synagogue.
Other churches are only after your tithes, Thanksgiving money, pastor's welfare money, building donations and Sunday offerings. When u dont read ur exam instructions you fail,read the article sulaiman... 2 Likes |