29th August, 1998: Foundation laying/groundbreaking of Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland is done by Bishop David Oyedepo. The Construction of the 50,000-seat capacity sanctuary called Faith Tabernacle (announced by the Guinness World Records in January 2008 as the largest church auditorium on planet earth at the time) commenced on 18th September 1998 and was built and dedicated on 18 September 1999 (exactly one year later).
29th August 1981: Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo weds Pastor Yemisi. Pastor Yemisi was the daughter of the Resident Pastor of Foursquare Gospel Church, Somolu, Lagos whom Pastor Mathew served as his Assistant. Their marriage is blessed with two sons.
29th August, 1853: Rev. Thomas Jefferson Bowen, a Baptist Missionary, who had gone back to the USA due to recurrent ill health returns back to Nigeria with his new wife, Laurenna after a year.
29 August, 2005: Reverend (Professor) Ishaya Audu passes on to glory. He was the founder of the Charity and Faith Missions (Victory Assembly) Inc. and the first indigenous Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University. He was also the Vice Presidential candidate of the Nigerian People’s Party running with Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe as its presidential candidate during the second republic in the 1979 presidential Elections. He later became External Affairs Minister under President Shehu Shagari before going into ministry.
29 August, 1792: Charles Grandison Finney is born. Charles G. Finney was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States.
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