About Us
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Christ’s Court Parish, St. Cloud was established in June 2014 with a vision of raising people of excellence through the teaching of God’s word in a simple and uncompromised way for the Kingdom’s advancement, made relevant to everyday living.
Christ’s Court is one of the parishes of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, which was founded in 1952.
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God is Pastor E.A. Adeboye. The Ministry has a global representation in Africa, Europe, Asia, the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, South America and Australia.
Our History
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) was founded in 1952 by Rev. Josiah Olufemi Akindayomi (1909–1980) after he had been involved in several other churches. Through the leading of the Holy Spirit Pa. Akindayomi chose Enoch Adeboye, a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Lagos, who joined the church in 1973. Adeboye initially became one of the interpreters translating Akindayomi’s sermons from Yoruba to English. He was ordained a pastor of the church in 1975, and his appointment as leader of the church was formalized by the posthumous reading of Akindayomi’s sealed pronouncement.
Andrew Rice, writing in The New York Times, calls the RCCG “one of [Africa’s] most vigorously expansionary religious movements, a homegrown Pentecostal denomination that is crusading to become a global faith”. The church’s leaders preach that in the future, “in every household there will be at least one member of Redeemed Christian Church of God in the whole world.”
Our Fundamental beliefs
The official RCCG website outlines its beliefs in the Bible and the Holy Trinity, that the Devil exists, that God formed man in his image, in repentance, in cleansing from sins by God’s grace, in sanctification, water baptism, Holy Spirit baptism, restitution and the possibility of healing without medicine (by divine intervention through prayer). The church forbids debts, “worldliness” (such as dancing halls and reveling) and rebellion against church authority. It encourages abstention from all evil and reverence to parents and authorities.
Our Church status
The church headquarters is located in the Ebute-Metta suburb of Lagos, Nigeria. The Church is now segmented into regions, with 23 Regions in Nigeria. Elsewhere in Africa, it has a presence in Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
In Europe, the church has a presence in Austria, England, Scotland, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, Portugal, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Serbia and Switzerland.
In the United States, it has a presence in Arizona, Michigan, Mississippi, Illinois, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, New York, New England, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Georgia, Oregon, Minnesota, Oklahoma, California, North Carolina, Connecticut and Colorado. In the Caribbean, it has a presence in Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago.
In Canada it has a presence in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan. The RCCG in the United States and Canada together form the RCCGNA, which has its headquarters in Dallas, Texas.
In Asia and the Pacific, it has a presence in Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Newcastle, Adelaide and Perth), New Zealand, Fiji, Malaysia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Singapore and in the Philippines.
In India it has a presence in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata. It also has a presence in Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
In Pakistan it has presence in Lahore, Kasur, Sahiwal, Mureed Ke, Mian Chanu.
In the Middle East, the church has parishes in Qatar (two parishes), Kuwait, Lebanon and in all the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates.
Most popular of the church’s activities, is the monthly Holy Ghost Service attended by millions of people from many states of Nigeria and beyond, at the popularly known Redemption Camp on the outskirts of Lagos in Ogun State, Nigeria. The Redemption Camp’s auditorium that hosts the attending millions of overflowing population initially covered an area of 1 kilometer by 2 kilometers. Due to the large number of worshipers that attend services at the Redemption Camp, especially during the church’s Annual Convention that holds in August and the Holy Ghost Congress in December, a bigger auditorium measuring 3 kilometers by 3 kilometers was recently constructed with the vision to expanding it to 5 kilometers by 5 kilometers in the nearest future.
The Redeemed Christian Church of God runs Bible Colleges and Schools of Disciples. These are headquartered in Nigeria, Africa, and they have many campuses in the United States of America, UK, Europe, Middle East (Qatar) and other continents.