PASTOR ENOCH ADEJARE ADEBOYE

THE GENERAL OVERSEER

Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, The General Overseer (Daddy G.O) of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) is a man of God, who has been a tremendous blessing and inspiration to numerous people and drawn lost souls to salvation by the grace of God.

Pastor E.A. Adeboye was born on 2nd March 1942 at Ifewara in the present day Osun State. He holds Doctorate (PhD) in Applied Mathematics, and he was a lecturer at the University of Lagos and University of Ilorin prior to his salvation and calling to ministry.

Married in 1968 to his wife, Pastor (Mrs.) Folu Adeboye, the young couple was faced with the problem of recurrent caesarean operations by which his wife had delivered their first two babies. Medical science had diagnosed that in view of the formation of the pelvic bones, having babies by natural means was impossible and as such advised the couple against having more children. A solution had to be found.

As part of the solution-seeking odyssey, the young University lecturer and his wife were invited to the Redeemed Christian Church of God by his uncle. Though led by unlettered men, the visibility of the power of God was not lost on the young couple. The church was then headed by Pastor Josiah Oluwafemi Akindayomi, the General Superintendent (GS), a man who did not have any formal education and spoke no English but his native Yoruba language. However, compared to his own educated mind, this man and the other men of God in the church were infinitely superior to him in the knowledge and ways of God, and especially in their examination and exposition of the Bible. Here were men who despite their educational handicap would not compromise God’s standard. So on 29th of July 1973 when the altar call was made in the church for those who wanted to surrender their lives to Jesus, forsake their sinful ways, and become born again, the young man, rushed forward in a remorseful show of penitence and gave his life unto Jesus!

To test their new faith in the Lord, and standing upon His promises, the Pastor’s wife who had been asked to stop bearing children became pregnant again. In the fullness of her term, she was delivered of a baby boy in 1978. The baby, who came against medical advice was delivered naturally and was named OLUWADAMILARE. This miracle birth was a source of joy to the couple and they never tired of showing him off to friends and family as a physical manifestation of God’s faithfulness to those who serve Him in spirit and in truth. A second miracle baby followed in 1982 through the same process of natural delivery, at the same maternity center run by the church and by the same church midwives. The baby, named OLUWAGBEMILEKE became the final confirmation by the couple to their friends that with God nothing shall be impossible, and that when you are totally committed to and dependent on God, He will not let you down.

On 21st of January 1981, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, at the tender age of 38 was consecrated as the leader of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, and chose the title, General overseer. Since then the Church has witnessed tremendous growth and has parishes in over 200 countries of the world. On Friday 20th October 1995, he commissioned Pastor Prince Obasi-ike to Kenya to start the Redeemed Christian Church of God. You may want to listen to his massages and read his books. www.rccgsolutioncentre.org