A
member of Christ Embassy in the spirit of unity took to Facebook few
hours ago to share an email soliciting for fund for Pastor Chris
Oyakhilome’s upcoming birthday.
The letter shared by one Al Akhigbe reads: ”Esteemed
Group Pastor, Warm greetings in the matchless name of Our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ.Amen. Congratulations on the just concluded
International Pastors and Partners Conference.IPPC. I have been directed
by our highly esteemed Zonal Director, Pastor ———– to remind you of
your Financial commitment to offer 7, the birthday of our dear Man of
God, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, Phd. The minimum target for each Group is
ten million Naira only (N10,000,000.00) . Kindly note that the money is
expected on or before 2nd December as you are aware that the birthday is
on the 7th of December. Thank you for your outstanding commitment to
the vision of our ministry. Signed—–”
Writing
further, Al Akhigbe said, “Now, the above letter just hit my email box.
And I thought I should share a thought or two for the benefit of those
who don’t know why we are doing what we are doing. Now, in this zone,
there are twelve groups plus the zonal church. The twelve groups will
give a total sum of N120,000,000.00 and the zonal church will give
N100,000,000.00 making a total of N220,000,000.00 (equivalent of
approximately USD $1.3 million dollars). Let us assume every zone in
Nigeria alone gives $1 million dollars each, about $30 million dollars
will accrue to one man. Ghana will give big, SA will not lag behind et
cetera.”
Al Akhigbe also shared some internal struggles going on in the church:
See his message below:
The
Christ Embassy’s 2014 International Pastors’ and Partners’ Conference
(IPPC) but the event has made open certain issues that unfolded at the
grand conference. Speaking on this, a member of the church writing with
the name Al Akhigbe took to the controversial ‘Where is Rev. Anita
Oyakhilome’ Facebook page to talk about these issues. According to his
post, “Welcome back from another great gathering of faithful members of
the ministry of Christ Embassy. One cannot but acknowledge the huge
success of IPPC. Yes, successful in spite of the celebrated divorce
saga. With the expected thrills and frills exuded from the message and
music, not forgetting the awards and awardees. It was indeed, something
to shout about. But, not to be missed, is the conspicuous absence of the
big fishes of yesteryears. Did you see Brother Strive and Deaconess
Tsitsi Masiyiwa? Was it a coincidence too that I didn’t see Pastor
Dolapo? These were the people promoted to CEC status just last year. If
these CEC(?) members were absent, could it be that so many other
erstwhile top 100 partners were also absent? (Just being curious).
“And
if it is true that many of them (apparently so) were absent, could it
not be linked to the mismanagement of the divorce saga? If it is linked
to the divorce saga, would it be wrong to say that the repudiation of
Rev. Anita is taking a toll on the ministry? And if it is right that
Rev. Anita’s personality has influenced those sponsors of the ministry
of Christ Embassy, does that not lend credence to what I had said
earlier in this forum that God is using the divorce saga to cleanse the
Augean stable? Don’t forget that up until now, the woman is yet to speak
up, yet things are happening and the leadership of Christ Embassy are
having a turbulent time controlling and managing the situation. If the
conglomerate of Pastor Chris and his army cannot surmount the influence
of one lone Pastor Anita, does that not tell them that it is God that is
at work in her, both to will and to do of His good pleasure? The
grandstanding and demagoguing is not and will not work.
“Were
you surprised that no mention was made of these erstwhile gladiators?
Then you are not too acquainted with the principles of this ministry.
There were others before them, when their eyes became opened to the
reality, they beat it. Have you forgotten so soon the Zimbabwean pastor
that brought Brother Strive? Have you forgotten Pastor Mitchelle? Well, I
wrote something about this attitude in my earlier post. Those guys
(Strive, Tsitsi, Dolapo, Mitchelle, e.t.c) have all been used as
scaffolds to build the church structure and have outlived their
usefulness. So what? Discard the disused tools.
“Delegates
to the conference know what went into mobilizing them to attend. Never
in the history of C.E had people been encouraged with incentives to
attend IPPC. A certain amount was usually set as bench-mark for
pre-qualification to attend. But this year, instead of bench-mark, there
is incentives. If we calculate the amount of money that went into
sponsorship of delegates from around the world to the conference, you
will be stunned. And the truth is that it can not continue this way or
else, the ministry will go bankrupt. The hunger for partnership is dying
by the day, so how long can this type of mobilization be sustained?
Just wait for next year and see.
“I
know Pastor’s message was tilted towards the direction of going back to
the basics. If that were so, lip-service is not enough to make the
desired change, but drastic reorganization and doctrinal changes. It
will do the ministry a lot of good, if those lackeys and man Fridays
have enough guts to tell the truth to their demi-god. But evidently,
they are slaves to fear. The fear of the unknown is their greatest
enemy.”
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