General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has spoken of the manner and timing of his death.
Making the disclosure at the ongoing annual Holy Ghost Congress of the church on Thursday in Mowe, Ogun State, the 81-year old cleric wished for a death similar to one uncle of his.
Adeboye said, “I know somebody will say if we are never sick, how are we going to die and go to heaven? You don’t need to be sick to go to heaven.
“An uncle of mine woke up on a thanksgiving Sunday, went to Church, danced like everybody else, came home and his wife gave him a light breakfast before preparing the original food which was pounded yam. She was already pounding the yam when my uncle decided to go to the toilet.
“After she finished pounding, she knocked at the door of the toilet, when they opened the door, my uncle was gone; no sickness, no ache, no pain. If the Lord tarries His coming, I will go on a Sunday after a good meal of pounded yam.”
Enoch Adeboye was born 2nd March 1942 in Ifewara near Ife, in present day Osun State.
After secondary education at Ilesha Grammar School, he proceeded to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN).
However, the onset of the Nigerian Civil War forced him to complete his first degree at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics in 1967.
He went on and obtained a Master’s degree in Hydrodynamics from University of Lagos (1969) and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Lagos (1975).
Adeboye joined the Redeemed Christian Church of God in 1973 and served as an interpreter before he was ordained a Pastor in the church in 1975, and became its General Overseer in 1981, after the death of the denomination’s Founder, Pastor Josiah Akindayomi.
He held the GO role as a part-time portfolio for three years, combining it with his lecturer job at the University of Ilorin in Kwara State, Nigeria.
Under Adeboye, RCCG flourished and established branches in about 198 nations, with over 14 million worshippers in Nigeria alone.
Adeboye married Folu Adeboye on 17th December 1967 and they have four children (three sons and a daughter) and several grandchildren from the marriage.
They lost their son Dare Adeboye, aged 42, on 4th May 2021.
