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  • Why I deprived my wife of sex for a long time — RCCG pastor opens up

    Why I deprived my wife of sex for a long time — RCCG pastor opens up

    Daniel Olawande, the lead pastor of RCCG The Envoys in Lagos, has shared a personal experience from his marriage in which he became emotionally disconnected from his wife, resulting in a loss of sexual attraction.

    In a candid conversation on an episode of the Love Gist podcast, the youth pastor admitted to feeling overwhelmed and even repulsed by his wife’s attempts at intimacy during that time.

    He said, “There was a time that I felt disconnected from my babe, and I was just tired of her. I know you’ll be shocked to hear this but I was just tired, I was just fed up as in she wasn’t appealing to me anymore, she wasn’t attractive and I became overwhelmed, like she touches me, I’m touchy, like she was even the one asking for s3x at that time and I was not available. Any little thing, I was not excited anymore, and I don’t know what was happening, so I had to go to a mentor to talk to her about it.

    “I don’t know what is happening, I get angry easily, I get emotional, I mean I just become defensive, I’m not just attracted to her as it were and we’ve not, of course when I fast, we don’t have s3x but this one, there’s no fasting and I’ve not been able to even come close to my wife for a while.”

    Olawande further noted that there was no reason for the sudden loss of desire. He added that he had to reach out to a mentor, who in turn reached out to his wife.

    Following the intervention, his wife planned a surprise romantic evening that reignited the spark in their marriage.

    He continued saying, “I was just disconnected from her, and I was not really feeling it anymore, but I went to her mentor, and her mentor spoke to her, her mentor apologised on her behalf, her mentor said that she was going to talk to her, so her mentor called her for a meeting.

    “I don’t know what they discussed and then the next evening, we were going out and my wife requested that I allow her to drive and then she drove the car and drove me to a hotel and I got there, she said we’re going to see somebody and then we’re going, I was like who am I going to see and I entered the room, I saw roses on the floor, roses on the bed, I saw a table set before me, a lot of, you know, a lot of different kinds of dishes and I’m like what’s this, what’s happening she said I made all this for you and I’m like wow, I sat down, I started eating, I was eating this, eating this, before I finished it, I transferred money to her, something immediately, you know, and then all the love that died, the love came back that night.”

  • Just in: Pastor Adeboye replaces RCCG Pastor, Laoye appointed as monarch

    Just in: Pastor Adeboye replaces RCCG Pastor, Laoye appointed as monarch

    The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has directed the newly appointed Soun of Ogbomosoland, Pastor Ghandi Laoye, to hand over to a new pastor in order to face his new assignment.

    TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) recalls Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State had last week approved the appointment of Laoye.

    The Soun-elect is also the Pastor-in-Charge of the RCCG Jesus House Parish, Washington DC, United States of America.

    He succeeds Oba Jimoh Oyewumi, Ajagungbade III, who joined his ancestors in December 2021 at 95 after reigning for 48 years.

    At the service last Sunday, tagged Joint Celebration, Laoye was anointed by his co-pastors alongside his successor in the parish, Pastor Olumide Ogunjuyigbe.

    Speaking after the prayer and anointing session, the new monarch told the congregation that he was directed by the General Overseer of the RCCG Worldwide, Adeboye, to hand over to Ogunjuyigbe.

    The RCCG Jesus House Parish, Washington DC, on its Facebook page, said: “Pastor Ghandi passed on the baton of leadership to Pastor Olumide. Congratulations on this new journey Pastor Olumide. We know that the eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man what God will do through you! As God was with Pastor Ghandi, so shall He be with you.

    “Thank you so much Pastor G for your excellent leadership over the years. As you transition into this next phase of your illustrious life, we celebrate you, we congratulate you. We pray that your life will go from glory to glory, from strength to strength. We promise to continue the great legacy you have left behind. Amen

  • Queen Elizabeth ll: Meet Nigerian Pastor, only black man who officiated at funeral

    Queen Elizabeth ll: Meet Nigerian Pastor, only black man who officiated at funeral

    Nigerian pastor, Agu Irukwu of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) was among the officiating ministers who preached the word of God at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

    Pastor Irukwu is a senior pastor of the RCCG in the United Kingdom, he officiates at the Jesus House parish in England.

    He was selected to be one of the Eight ministers representing the church of England at the Queen’s funeral.

    Pastor Irukwu, a former Chairman of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in the United Kingdom, who still maintains his pastoral role in the RCCG as the Senior Pastor of Jesus House, United Kingdom, is one of the eight pastors representing the churches of England at the event.

    Irukwu stepped down as the chairman of UK RCCG in April 2021. He also ceased from being the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Executive Council of the RCCG in the UK and the Deputy Continental Overseer of the church in Europe.

    In a recent interview with Church Times Uk, Irukwu explained reasons for stepping down

    He told the RCCG that the decision to step down from the position was personal. He however said he would maintain his pastoral role at the Jesus House as the Senior Pastor.

    .Irukwu said the decision was an outcome of a retreat that he had with the Lord adding also that his decision was a fulfillment of prophecy and what God had been taking him through in the last few months.

    “The joy of prophetic words is when it comes to past. A few months ago, the Lord gave us an exciting prophetic word from Isaiah 43v18 and 19. God was encouraging us to forget the former things and embrace new things.

    He said while he was encouraging people to embrace these words, he was also going through it saying he had to share his experience because of those who had been part of his ministry.

    He stated, “I went away for a retreat and the Lord spoke clearly to me that certain parts of ministry which I had served for years, some of them for more than 20 years; that I will have to step away from those aspects of ministry and move away or hand over my responsibilities in all my national and international positions. And of course, I am passionate about the RCCG. I have served there all my life literally since I gave my life to Christ.

    According to the church’s website, Irukwu was conferred with the inaugural Alphege Award for Evangelism and Witness by the Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Revd and Rt Hon Justin Welby at Lambeth Palace in 2016.

    The award was after St. Alphege the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1006 to 1012. The Archbishop was reputed for his simplicity, wise and holy counsel, as well as care for the poor.

    Pastor Irukwu was also elected Churches Together in England (CTE) Pentecostal President in 2017, making him one of six CTE Presidents.

    He is a  graduate of the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, Pastor Irukwu was a former Investment Banker prior to his decision to go into full-time Christian ministry.

    He is described as a “very practical and down-to-earth preacher, his ministry is characterized by a desire to see revival in the UK and help build men and women of faith who will achieve their God-given purposes in life.”

    Irukwu is the son of Prof Joe Irukwu, a foremost insurance expert. He is married to Pastor Shola Irukwu

  • SAD! New converts stab RCCG pastor to death

    SAD! New converts stab RCCG pastor to death

    Suspected hoodlums have attacked and killed a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in FESTAC Town, in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State.

    It was gathered that the deceased, Pastor Babatunde Dada, was killed inside the RCCG Chapel of Resurrection on 13 Road, 6th Avenue, FESTAC Town.

    The killing, which happened on Thursday, December 2, was said to have been executed by two new converts who came to the church for the first time a Sunday before the incident.

    The two youths were said to have come out during an altar call and surrendered their lives to Jesus.

    The church accommodated them on its premises after they claimed to be stranded.

    They had hardly spent a week in the church when they reportedly stabbed the Pastor to death.

    However, the wife of the pastor, Bose said she called her husband on the day of the sad incident and he promised to come home to rest.

    “My husband was killed on December 2 at the church. He was the admin/accounts officer, as well as the parish pastor. I was not with him when he was killed, but I was told that they collected money from him. I heard that those who killed him were new converts”, she told Punch.

    A family member, Mr Abolarinwa Olatunbosun, said the pastor was killed after withdrawing money from a bank.

    He said, “The pastor went to a bank to withdraw some money and went to rest on the first floor of the church. Two persons said to be new converts went to meet him upstairs, broke his head and killed him.

    “The matter was reported to the police and one of the suspects, who ran to Ilorin, has been arrested.”

     

  • Wife of tragic RCCG pastor who drowned with kids in Del Sol Hotel cries out: They all can swim

    A heartbroken Nigerian-British woman whose two children and husband drowned at a Costa Del Sol hotel in Spain has said they all knew how to swim, contradicting earlier accounts.

    Olubunmi Diya instead said she believes ‘something was wrong with the pool’.

    Olubunmi’s husband Gabriel and children Comfort and Praise-Emmanuel died in the Spanish pool on Christmas Eve after Comfort got into difficulty in the water.

    Nine year-old Comfort was the one dragged who dragged the two others into the pool, after she began to struggle in the water. Reports said she slipped and unable to regain her footing, she began to drift towards the deep end of the six-and-a-half feet pool at holiday resort Club La Costa World near Fuengirola at 2pm.

    The pool inside Costa del Sol in Spain where Gabriel Diya and two kids died on Christmas eve

    Comfort Diya, right was the one that first had problem in the pool

    Praise-Emmanuel, 16, jumped into the pool followed by their father Gabriel after hearing the screams of their 14-year-old daughter Favour, who had been playing with Comfort moments beforehand.

    It was initially said the trio, who lived in Charlton, south east London, did not know how to swim properly.

    But the mother told Sky News on Friday that something must have been ‘wrong with the pool that made swimming difficult’ because her husband and children all knew how to swim

    The Diyas, with Favour Emmanuel, with the mom

    Mrs Diya’s comments contradicted earlier reports quoting her surviving daughter, Favour, who claimed the family didn’t know how to swim.

    Autopsy reports meanwhile said the three family members died by drowning.

    Mr Diya was head of Open Heavens, a London branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God network founded in Nigeria. He also ran his own property business.

    His widow, an assistant pastor, is a systems analyst who owns her own software firm.

    Praise-Emmanuel, a Bexley heath Grammar School student, was the only one of the five relatives who was not travelling on a British passport. Police described the teenager, thought to have been born in Illinois, as American in the wake of the tragedy.