Pastor Chris O. PHD
Chris Oyakhilome (also
known as "Pastor Chris") (born December 7, 1963) is
a Nigerian Christian minister who is
the founding president of Believers' Loveworld Incorporated, also known
as Christ Embassy, a Bible-based Christian
ministry headquartered in Lagos.
Ministry
and Theology
His ministry runs several arms
including the Healing School, Rhapsody of Realities, LoveWorld Books, and
an NGO called
the Innercity Missions for Children as well as three Christian television
channels: LoveWorld TV, LoveWorld SAT and LoveWorld
Plus. Oyakhilome's television programs feature what are claimed to be faith
healings and miracles, in large meetings which his ministry organises in
several countries, with gatherings of over 2.5 million people in a single
night's event.
In 2015, Oyakhilome was given an honorary doctorate from Ambrose Alli University, and Benson
Idahosa University.
Oyakhilome's ministry holds meetings in the United Kingdom and
the United States, and has "healing school" sessions in South Africa
and Canada. Oyakhilome
also hosts Higher Life conferences in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, UK, US and
Canada, and organized the Night of Bliss South Africa event at
the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. Oyakhilome
also operates an International School of Ministry, which held one of its
Ministers' Network Conferences in 2016 with 5000 ministers in attendance from
145 countries, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Oyakhilome runs an online prayer network using social media to
send messages to Christians in several countries. He had over 1.2 million
followers on Twitter in 2013, over 1.9 million followers on Facebook,
over 30 million followers on his own social networking website called Yookos and
operates a smartphone messenger called KingsChat. Oyakhilome is also the author
of the daily devotional "Rhapsody of Realities".On Rhapsody website
the "Rhapsody of Realities" devotional is only available for download
in over 143 languages either on Apple or Android. Oyakhilome also hosts Higher
Life conferences in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, UK, US and Canada.
Oyakhilome's Future Africa Leaders Award is an initiative aimed
at identifying, awarding and supporting young Africans who have demonstrated
exemplary leadership through education, youth empowerment and mentoring, and
through other projects aimed at helping young people to prepare for the future.
Over 40 Africans have been awarded since 2013.
Personal
Life
According to his official
Biography, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome was born on December 7, 1961. He was the
eldest son of the family of Tim Oyakhilome.
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome family started with his marriage in 1991
to the head of UK agency and fore-runner Rev Anita Ebhodaghe.
Pastor Chris and Pastor Anita Ebhodaghe have two children Sharon
and Charlane.
After 25 years of marriage, Anita Ebodaghe filed for divorce on
April 9, 2014 at the Central Family Court in London. They divorced in February
2016. After the separation, they also decided to share custody of their
two children.
Mission
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, is
known for his philanthropic works, which include aiding the poor, the sick, and
the dispossessed, both materially and spiritually. Over a ministry career
spanning more than 30 years, he has raised men and women from poverty, healed
the sick, and provided a message of hope which has been broadcast to every
nation in the world.Pastor Chris’s Inner City Mission Project declares that
“every child is your child”; this project saves and assists orphaned and
indigent children in inner cities across the globe.
Future Africa Leaders Award is a initiative of Pastor Chris
Oyakhilome PhD, DSc, DD to explore, educate, mentor, highlight and empower
intelligent and genuine Leadership Potentials deposite in the lives of young
Africans.
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