February 1st 2020 – Living Faith Church Worldwide aka Winners Chapel International Commence Church Planting of 10,000 churches in one year after it was declared by God’s Servant, Bishop David Oyedepo as God’s Prophetic Package for 2020 at the beginning of the year. This was double of the 5,000 churches planted the previous year, 2019. By November 8th 2020, 10,200 churches had been planted in Nigeria apart from about 1,400 outside Nigeria amidst Coro Lockdown, ENDSARS protests and curfews. This brought the total number of Winners Chapel Churches worldwide at the time to 21,032.
February 1st 1986 – Pastors Olubi and Sarah Johnson got married. The couple are Founders of Scripture Pasture Christian Centre and The Olubi and Sarah Johnson Foundation. They are blessed with four children and three grandchildren.
February 1st 1763 – Thomas Campbell, a Presbyterian minister who became prominent during the Second Great Awakening of the United States is born in County Down.
He began a religious reform movement on the American frontier. He was joined in the work by his son, Alexander. Their movement, known as the “Disciples of Christ” which merged in 1832 with the similar movement led by Barton W. Stone to form what is now described as the American Restoration Movement (also known as the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement). He sought to unite Christians under a common, simple confession of Christ as Lord and immersion baptism
February 1st 1834 – Henry McNeal Turner was born free in South Carolina.
Turner had learned to read and write and became a Methodist preacher. He joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1858, where he became a minister. Founded by free blacks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the early 19th century, the African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first independent black denomination in the United States. He was an American minister, politician and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). After the American Civil War, he worked to establish new A.M.E. congregations among African Americans in Georgia. Later Turner had pastorates in Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington DC.
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