Brief History of the Mission, RCCG.

In July 1909, a son was born into the Akindayomi family of Ondo State of Nigeria. Even though this child grew up surrounded by idol worshippers, he knew there existed a greater power and yearned to know "the God who created the earth and everyone on it". This pursuit for God led him to the Church Missionary Society where he was baptized in 1927. Still spiritually unfulfilled, he joined the Cherubim and Seraphim church in 1931.
Whilst there, he began to hear a voice within him saying, "You will be my servant." Since this was not his intention, he decided to ignore the voice. This went on for seven years during which all the business ventures that he tried resulted into failure. In debt and without peace of mind, he found himself totally dependent on the grace of God. Here marked the beginning of a definite relationship with God. Totally broken, he yielded saying, "Lord, I will go wherever you want me to go." He asked for signs to confirm that this was indeed God's call. The confirmation came through the Bible passages of Jeremiah 1:4-10, Isaiah 41:10-13 and Romans 8:29-31. The Lord assured him that He would provide for all his needs, as he would not receive any salary from that point on. This proved to be a comforting reminder during the trials in the months ahead. He became married in 1941. He continued to worship with the Cherubim and Seraphim. In 1947, he started to become concerned that the Church was departing from the true Word of God in some of its practices. By 1952, he felt totally persuaded to leave the Church. He started at Willoughby Street, Ebute-Metta, Lagos a house fellowship called, the Glory of God Fellowship. Initially there were nine members but before long the fellowship rapidly grew as the news of the miracles that occurred in their midst spread.

Pa Akindayomi also had a vision of words that appeared to be written on a blackboard. The words were "The Redeemed Christian Church of God." Amazingly, Pa Akindayomi who could not read or write was supernaturally able to write these words down. In this visitation, God also said to him that this Church would go to the ends of the earth and that when the Lord Jesus Christ appeared in glory, He would meet the Church. The Lord then established a covenant with Pa Akindayomi, synonymous to the Abrahamic covenant in the Bible. He said that He the Lord would meet all the needs of the church in an awesome way if only members would serve Him faithfully and be obedient to His Word. It is upon this covenant that the Redeemed Christian Church of God was built.

Thus, the Redeemed Christian Church of God was born in 1952, destined by the Lord Himself to take the world for Him. The Church continued to meet at 9 Willoughby Street until they were able to acquire some land thereby witnessing relocation to the present site of the Headquarters of the Church at 1-5 Redemption Way, Ebute-Metta, Lagos (formerly 1a, Cemetery Street).

Sometime in the early 70s, God had spoken to Pa Akindayomi about his successor. The Lord told him that this man who was not a member of the Church then, would be a young educated man. Thus when a young university lecturer joined the Church in 1973, Papa was able to recognize him in the Spirit as the one that the Lord had spoken about in the past.
This man, Enoch Adejare Adeboye who was then a lecturer of Mathematics at the University of Lagos soon became involved in the Church. He became one of the interpreters translating Pa Akindayomi's sermons from Yoruba to English. He was ordained a Pastor of the Church in 1975.


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Papa was preparing to meet his Creator, he sent for Pastor Adeboye, (who is fondly known as "G.O" or "DADDY G.O." and is still the General Overseer of the Church) and spent several hours sharing with him details of the covenant and the plans of the Lord for the Church. Even though a year before this, the Lord had revealed to Pastor Adeboye that he would be Papa's successor, it was still too difficult for him to fully contemplate such an awesome responsibility. Pa Josiah Akindayomi passed on to glory in 1980
at the age of 71. Amidst controversy, Pastor Adeboye's appointment was formalized by the reading of Pa Akindayomi's sealed pronouncement after his burial.

Since 1981, an open explosion began with the number of parishes growing in leaps and bounds. At the last count, there are at least about 2000 parishes of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria. Today, there are over 5000 Parishes of RCCG worldwide. RCCG is present on six continents except Antarctica. There are over 300 parishes in North America. The most phenomenal programs of the RCCG are the Monthly Holy Ghost Night, and the Yearly Holy Ghost Congress, all-night prayer, worship, healing and miracle services, which take place at the Redemption City' near Lagos, Nigeria. The Holy Ghost Night, a monthly event attracts on overage attendance of 500,000 people. No doubt that under the leadership of Pastor Adeboye, the RCCG is experiencing phenomenal growth in pursuit of the Covenant upon which the Church was built as he faithfully continues with the work where Pa Akindayomi stopped.


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Today, God is still doing marvelous deeds through the Redeemed Christian Church of God, worldwide. One of the well-known programs of the Church is the Holy Ghost Service, an all night miracle service that holds on the first Friday of every month at the Redemption City at Km. 46, Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The average headcount of those who attend the Service is about 500,000. The Holy Ghost Service, popularly known as the Festival of Life now holds in London quarterly and in the United States of America.

RCCG Mission Statement

Below is the Mission Statement for the Redeemed Christian Church of God:
- To make Heaven, this is the ultimate goal.
- To take as many people as possible with us to Heaven.
- To have an RCCG member in every family of the earth.
- To make Heaven, we must live a Holy life.
- To accomplish Nos. 2 and 3 above, we will plant Churches within five minutes walking distance in every city and town of developing Countries and within five minutes driving distance in every city and town of developed Countries.
- We will pursue these objectives until every Nation of the Earth is reached for Jesus Christ our Lord.

Obedience to the Word

And in obedience to the above, RCCG Light House presently have Four (4) Parishes to the Glory of God, (including our Parish in Brighton) with our Mother Parish in Oxford.
- Below, we have the list of the Parishes and the Pastors-in-charge:

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Name of Parish	Pastor-in-charge	Website
Light House, Oxford	Pastor Abraham Adegoke	http://www.rccglighthouse.co.uk
Light House, Abingdon	Pastor Mike Davies	http://www.rccglighthouse.co.uk
Light House, Banbury	Pastor (Mrs.) Funmi Adegoke	http://www.rccglighthouse.co.uk
Light House, Brighton	Pastor Wole Ekundayo	http://www.rccglighthouse.co.uk