About The Church
The Church’s Leadership
These Men and Woman of God have been called and anointed by the most high, to be of service to him and lead the whole world to him.
Bishop David O. Oyedepo
Bishop David O. Oyedepo is the founder and presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church World Wide
Pastor Faith Oyedepo
Pastor Mrs Faith Abiola Oyedepo is the wife to the presiding bishop Living Faith Church World Wide.
Bishop David Abioye
Bishop David O. Abioye is the Executive First Vice President of Living Faith Church Worldwide A prolific author and a preacher, he is also the senior pastor of the Abuja church (Goshen city) with over 30,000 worshippers.
HOW THE LIVING FAITH CHURCH BEGAN
CHURCH HISTORY
According to the presiding bishop, when the Mandate was delivered in 1981, he saw it mainly as an outreach ministry, because at that time, church planting was not considered relevant. The church was more concerned about believing God for revival in the existing churches and there was no mention of church planting as at then.
The bishop then thought it was going to be an outreach ministry and his stand was that there were enough churches already, so we didn't really need another one.
But one early morning, however, God showed him something from Luke chapter one:
For as much as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
It seemed good to me also… —Luke 1:1-3
God was telling him, “There are many churches, yes; but I am giving you a portion of the church ministry.”
“I also…” became the marching order for our Church Ministry. That’s, “others have written it, but you have a part of it to write.” It is that part that we are here celebrating, which has become a global phenomenon. To God be the glory!
OUR CHURCH
Winners Chapel International, Brandon was started as a house fellowship in December 2016 and gradually became a church as the number of people increased. On April 23 2017, the first Sunday service was held at the Park Community Center Brandon with six people. When the Community Center could no longer contain the crowd, the church moved to its present location at 1438, Rosser Avenue where the church is experiencing increased church attendants with ear tingling testimonies. Brandon City where the church is located is the second largest city in Manitoba.
The church is committed to the specific mandates of preaching the Word of Faith, walking in prosperity, and operating in the supernatural through the manifestation of signs and wonders as delivered to the Apostle over this commission, Bishop David Oyedepo.
THE MANDATE
Our Mandate speaks of liberation in all facets of human existence, we focus mainly on destinies that have been afflicted, battered, beaten, tattered, deformed and subsequently in groaning and agonies, as a result of pains, pangs and crying. This is the mandate.
"The hour has come to liberate the world from all oppression of the devil through the preaching of the word of faith, and I am sending you to undertake this task."
Today, testimonies of liberation through our messages, books, tapes, magazines and other periodicals are most humbling. The word of faith is working like fire for the liberation of mankind across the nations.
Our Operational Mandate
The church's operational call and mandate.
The Pastoral Mandate
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The understanding of the liberation commission is that, it will basically be an outreach operation. The Presiding Bishop could not imagine any church connection with the commission. Our understanding then was that there was no kind of church that was not in existence and that what was needed was to ignite the fire of the Holy Ghost in existing churches through itinerant preaching in churches, instead of finding new ones.
However, one glorious day, in November 1982, the Lord spoke to the Presiding Bishop clearly from Luke 1:1-3 that
"this mandate shall have a church base all that is in existence notwithstanding".
Today, the Living Faith Church, well known in some cities and nations as Winners' Chapel, has become a worldwide name.
Church Spread Mandate
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During our Easter Faith Convention in 1987, The Presiding Bishop was on his way to the platform on April 27, 1987, when the Lord spoke to him in very clear terms,
"It's time to spread out."
He declared it to the church that same day, and to the glory of God by May 27, 1987, our branch network began in five cities and towns in northern Nigeria, namely Maiduguri, Bauchi, Mubi, Azare and Biu. Today, we are in over 300 cities and towns in Nigeria, and over 35 nations in Africa, Europe and America.
Foreign Mission Mandate
On May 4, 1994, as The Presiding Bishop was driving from a meeting held in Zaria to Kaduna, that the Lord spoke to him in very clear terms,
"The harvest of Africa is now over-ripe, rush in and preserve it from decadence."
On May 8, 1994, with a giant map of Africa, we dedicated the mandate to God for execution and by January 15, 1995 the first set of missionaries left the shores of Nigeria. Today, we are in about 32 African nations and operating in 63 cities and towns in those nations. It's clear again that whatever God speaks with His mouth, He performs with His Hand (I Kings 8:15).
The foreign mission mandate gave birth to two organizations. One was the African Invasion Program (AGIP) and the World Mission Agency (WMA). It wouldn't be until the year 2000 that God gave the Commission the prompting to expand beyond the shores of Africa in a programme called the Mission To the World (MTW).
The church in London was subsequently born in the year 2001, the New York Church in 2004 and the Maryland Church in 2008. Clearly, the mission to spread this commission and its churches around the world came directly from God and that is why we have been experiencing God's backing in a strange way.