7th March 1986: The Holy Ghost service began as a divine birthday gift to Pastor E.A. Adeboye.
7th March 1999: Pastor Tunde Bakare publicly states that President-elect Olusegun Obasanjo would be killed by the military before the May 29 inauguration. Eventually, Obasanjo is sworn in on the 29th of May 1999 and is never assassinated.
7th March 2011: The Federal Government of Nigeria issues an operating license to Landmark University. Landmark University is a private university affiliated with Living Faith Church Worldwide and is located in Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria.
7th March 2019: Sinach’s global award-winning song “WAYMAKER” hits 100 million views on YouTube. She is the first African Gospel Minister to achieve this feat. WAYMAKER currently has 222 million views, is translated into over 100 languages and has been covered by several renowned gospel ministers around the world.
7th March 203: Perpetua, a 22-year-old Christian, her slave Felicitas and several others are martyred in Carthage (present-day Tunisia). They are flogged, thrown to wild beasts and finally beheaded for their faith in Christ under the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus. Perpetua remains one of early Christianity’s most famous martyrs.
7th March 1973: Establishment of Full Gospel Osanri Prayer Mountain, now called Osanri Jashil Choi Prayer Mountain.
7th March 1986: Archbishop Sam Amaga receives the mission statement and mandate of the ministry from the Lord.
7th March 2011: Samuel Adegboyega University, located in Ogwa, Edo State, Nigeria, receives its license from the Federal Government of Nigeria to operate as a university.
7th March 2021: Gospel Music Minister Gift Ugochi Christopher (GUC) and his wife Nene present a Toyota SUV as a gift to their Pastor, Moses Omodibo of Rhema House International Church, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, during their wedding thanksgiving service.
7th March 2022: Pastor Elizabeth Folashade Olukoya graduates from the Royal College of Art in the United Kingdom.
7th March 1274: Thomas Aquinas goes to be with the Lord at the age of 48. He was a theologian of the Roman Catholic Church known for his Christian theology and Aristotelian philosophy adopted in the Church’s Code of Canon Law in 1917.
7th March 1804: The nonsectarian British and Foreign Bible Society is founded in London to promote the circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment both at home and in foreign lands. BFBS funds and publications aided such missionary pioneers as William Carey, Robert Morrison and Henry Martyn.
7th March 1825: Birth of Alfred Edersheim, Jewish-born Anglican Bible scholar, theologian and writer. His most widely read title, ‘The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah’ (1883), is still in print.
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