Flashback To 1988 As Bishop David Oyedepo presented the model of the new Church (Dominion Cathedral, Garden of Faith, Barnawa, Kaduna) at the K.C Price Hall in Barnawa, Kaduna.
In 1987 a crisis ensued in Zaria, a suburb of Kaduna Metropolis in Kaduna State. Over 100 churches were burnt. Families relocated from Zaria. At that time, church leaders came together and suggested that large churches would no longer be built so that anytime they were burnt, new ones could easily be erected. My Dad was a ‘leader of the brethren’ of our home church and I heard him discuss some of these issues with his friends. This clearly made sense to me as a very young boy of less than 10 years of age. He was not always around as he was usually in Europe so sometime early in 1989 when Bishop Oyedepo came into the Kongo Conference Hotel, Zaria to display the model of the Dominion Cathedral of the Garden of Faith. I sat on the floor very close to the front where he sat that day with his eyes half closed. The whole hall was filled with shouts but I was aghast. I wondered what kind of boldness this was and what would happen if this was burnt again.
That same model here in the video above is very nostalgic for me as I saw it myself as a child.
Some 7 years later in 1996, I was moved in awesome admiration for God when I visited Barnawa and saw the Dominion Cathedral standing. It had been dedicated the previous year..
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