Making Global Impact

The phenomenal growth of the commission, marked by its 25 years anniversary in May 2006, has been in the biblical order of Acts 1:8, "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."

Today, the church that formally started with four members in 1983, after a 26 months of spiritual foundation-laying, by members of the Power House and weekly fellowships tagged Faith Liberation Hour, has become an awesome organization with vibrant and viable churches in nearly 300 cities and towns in Nigeria and more than 34 nations of the world.

Also, God has blessed the Commission that it has become a global fulcrum of faith realities and a foundry for producing faith-based proofs.

Over the years, Bishop Oyedepo's practical and biblical teachings, as well as writings, have also become veritable tools for producing proofs and doing exploits in the hands of numerous ministers, evangelists, pastors and other cadres in the communion of Bible-believing organizations - both in Nigeria and the world over.

Now See What The Lord Has Done!

This Church has grown from four standing members in 1983 to a congregation of the multitudes with churches established in 300 cities, towns and villages in Nigeria, about 65 cities and towns spread over 32 nations in Africa, Britain and the US.

The church has gone from a staff force of three to a work force of thousands including, core ministry staff, i.e. the Pastoral, administrative, accounting, technical and IT, an army of teaching and non- teaching staff in our primary, secondary and tertiary school systems and over 2,000 of skilled and unskilled labour in our construction endeavours alone. You can imagine the number of men and women on the payroll of this ministry today!

As of 1984, the ministry had a Volkswagen Beetle car as the only official vehicle of the ministry. But today, at the headquarters Church alone, we run a fleet of over 300 buses as mass transit vehicles for commuting worshippers. This is apart from construction equipments i.e., bulldozers, pay-loaders, excavators, trucks of all sizes (etc), for our numerous construction work. Today all levels of staff also enjoy a special vehicle acquisition package that number in hundreds. This is also apart from an array of departmental service vehicles.

In 1984 also, the highest attendance in our conference was 154. Today, we have counted over 300,000 at our annual convocation, tagged Shiloh.

22 year ago, the total annual income of this ministry was N18,000 only. But today, the story has changed as the annual income 10 years ago cannot cover for the monthly staff overhead alone today.

In 1987, we had a make-shift structure capable of only shading us from the sun, it was built of woven grass, on a two-plot leased landed property, fondly referred to as "The Grass Cathedral." But today, God has put in place to His glory, the world renowned Faith Tabernacle, the 50,000 seat sanctuary, reputed to be the largest church auditorium in the world.

Education:

Today, our contribution to educational development through the building of schools ranges from Nursery/Primary, Secondary to the University level. The ministry runs a network of Kingdom Heritage Nursery/ Primary schools across the nation, and in some nations of Africa.

Faith Academy, a model, full-boarding secondary school, in Ota, has cut a niche for itself through the qualitative results of its products, while, the new, vision-driven Covenant University, Ota, has become a pace-setter in the annals of tertiary institutions in this part of the world.

The above are some of the awesome deeds of the Lord.

My prayer, therefore, is that the Lord will inspire you, as we do, to give glory to His awesome name, a name that is above all names, a God that there is nothing impossible for Him to do. "For with God nothing shall be impossible." (Lk. 1:37).. Bishop David Oyedepo