12th December 1995: Living Faith Church (Winners’ Chapel) 3,000 capacity facility with the L-shaped structure terminating with an 8-floor World Mission Tower in the Winners’ Complex known as ‘Capernaum’ is dedicated by the Archbishop Benson Idahosa. It is located at 28 Raji Oba Street, Iyana Ipaja, Lagos State (Raji Oba Church). Right there, Bishop Oyedepo received a divine revelation: ‘I will yet relocate you to your Rehoboth’, indicating a future relocation. Exactly 2 years later, the first 569 acres of what became ‘Canaanland’ was purchased and the Church at a peak of 5 services and 50,000 in attendance by September 1999 relocated to newly built Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland. Canaanland is over 17,000 acres today.
12th December 2013: Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke commences a 4-day long crusade at Omnisport Stadium, Yaounde, Cameroon. More than 750,000 people heard the Gospel that week with over 300,000 people present on the last day of the meeting.
12th December 2020: Pastor Femi Lazarus weds his wife Miracle Femi-Lazarus. Apostle Femi Lazarus is the Founder of Light Nation with its headquarters in Abuja.
12th December 1997: Yinka Ayefele survives an automobile accident that confined him to a wheelchair. He is a Gospel Music Minister.
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