Our history

Pa Akindayomi, the founder of RCCG, was born in July 1909 in Ondo State, Nigeria where he grew up surrounded by idol worshipers, but he knew there was another greater power and yearned to know God. And this pursuit led him to the Church Missionary Society where he was baptized in 1927 but still spiritually unfulfilled, he then joined the Cherubim and Seraphim Church in 1931. Pa Akindayomi began to hear the voice of God saying “you will be my servant” but he ignored it. This went on for years and all his businesses and ventures all failed, and he ran into debt and eventually surrendered himself to God saying, ‘Lord I will go wherever you want me to go.’ He got confirmation through the Bible passages of Jeremiah 1:4-10, Isaiah 41:10-13 and Romans 8:29-31 and The Lord assured him of providing for his needs.

He married in 1941 and continued to worship with Cherubim and Seraphim but in 1947, he started feeling that the Church was departing from the Word of God and by 1952 he felt persuaded to leave the church and started a prayer group (Ogo Oluwa Prayer Group) at Willoughby Street, Ebute Meta, Lagos, Nigeria. He also had a vision of words that appeared to be written on a blackboard which were ‘The Redeemed Christian Church of God’, giving birth to the Church in 1952. In the early 70’s God spoke to Pa Akindayomi about his successor, described how his successor looked like and so a young University lecturer joined in 1973, Papa recognized him in the spirit.