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Pastor Chris Oyakhilome
Born	December 7 Nigeria
Occupation(s)	Televangelist, author, speaker, preacher, life coach
Spouse	Pastor Anita Oyakhilome
Website

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome (known popularly as "Pastor Chris") is a televangelist and founding president of Believers' LoveWorld Incorporated also known as "Christ Embassy", a Christian organization headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

Family and Background

Pastor Chris was born in the 60's to the family of Late Elder T.E. Oyakhilome, and was brought up in a Christian home. He got born-again at the tender age of 9, and when he was 11 years, was admitted into Edo College, Benin City. He completed his school leaving certificate (ordinary level) as well as his higher leaving certificate (advanced level) in the college. He, like other young Christians, became an active member of the school's Christian Union. During this period, his leadership qualities blossomed and was felt by fellow students and the school officials and by his A-Level years (2 years), he was elected as the head of the Christian Union. By the time he gained admission to the University, he, together with some other Christian friends, set up a Christian organization headquartered in Benin-City; organizing Sunday services, establishing and growing Christian fellowships in secondary schools, tertiary institutes of learning all over Nigeria. His leadership qualities was evident as he trained and mentored young Christians, held a number of crusades in various regions of Nigeria. He continued in this ministry as a young undergraduate at the then Bendel State University (now "Ambrose Alli University") where he studied Architecture.

He is married to Pastor Anita Oyakhilome, the Director of the Christ Embassy International Office who also pastors Christ Embassy Churches in the United Kingdom, including her own chapter, Christ Embassy Docklands, in North Woolwich, London.

Ministry

Presiding over an ever-widening network of Christ Embassy Churches and campus fellowships on six continents, Pastor Chris also pastors one of the largest congregations in Africa. He holds teaching and healing crusades with crowds of over 3.5 million in a single night's event. Christ Embassy has an elite group of international professionals responsible for translating Rhapsody of Realities, a daily devotional produced by the ministry which is currently 11 years in print, and is translated in over 110 translations.

In 2003, he pioneered the first 24-hour Christian Network from Africa to the rest of the world known as LoveWorld Christian Network. This station is currently called LoveWorldSat, and is sister to two other stations namely, LoveWorldPlus, and LoveWorldTV, UK. He is also the host of the television program “Atmosphere for Miracles”, which is oriented towards healing of physical and spiritual ailments and is broadcast on major television networks around the world.

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome is the author of over 25 bestselling books including "Rhapsody of Realities" which he co-authors with his wife, How to make your faith work, none of these diseases, Healing from Heaven volumes 1 and 2, when God visits you, Prophecy-Understanding the power that controls your future, to mention but a few. All these books are available in several languages, on the ministry's online store.

His ministry also runs a Healing School, a faith-based school, whose teachings are geared at stirring faith in sick people to receive divine healing from God.

Media Ministry

In 1996, Pastor Chris came on air for the first time on a local terrestrial station in Nigeria called, DBN. But today, Pastor Chris is currently aired on most of the biggest Christian television networks around the world such as TBN, LoveWorld Sat, and LoveWorld TV, and over 65 local television networks around the world.

Internet Ministry

Since May 8, 2009, Pastor Chris has been online every Tuesday, answering questions sent in from all over the world about Christianity, religions, life's issues, divine healing and several others on his personal website, www.pastorchrisonline.org. He has several websites which is used by his ministry for online conferences, and for specific internet based outreaches.

Divine Healing

Pastor Chris strongly believes that it is not God's will for man to be sick. Following the foot steps of the one he preaches, Jesus, Pastor Chris has an arm of his ministry called the Healing School, which is responsible for imparting faith- the necessary substance to receiving a miracle in the Christian faith, thereafter ministering to the sick to get healed. This subject on divine healing has sparked up controversy from some who challenge the authenticity of miracles. However in this age of global freedom of speech, many individuals who have been impacted by the ministry of Pastor Chris have risen, and flooded social network, websites, and blogs of their divine experience in Christ Embassy. .

Crowd Pulling Programs, Nigeria

Pastor Chris has held some of the largest Christian crusades around the world. In 2002, Christ Embassy organized the Night of Bliss Special with Pastor Chris, an event which had the 60,000 capacity National Stadium, Surulere in Lagos, Nigeria, filled to capacity with a crowd three times it's capacity. Several more thousands participated via large screen displays around the stadium's grounds.

In 2003, Christ Embassy organized a Night of Bliss, Benin-City, with Pastor Chris. This program had over 1.3 million people in attendance under a heavy downpour of rain.

In 2004, Christ Embassy organized a Night of Bliss, Port Harcourt. This event had over 2.5 million people in attendance. The all roads leading to the venue got blocked, and many who were traveling in by road for the program were stuck in the traffic, and had to participate in the program from their vehicles.

In 2006, the ministry, under the leadership of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome organized the Good Friday Miracle Night with Pastor Chris. This event had over 3.5 million people in attendance, with 2.6 million people seat reservation bookings. . This program was the last on site public program organized by Christ Embassy in Nigeria. The day after the program, a 24 hour traffic jam occurred in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, and some connected this to the program with Pastor Chris.

Since 2006, Pastor Chris has focused on leadership development within the ministry, and organizes special programs for specific people.

Crowd Pulling Programs, Outside Nigeria

Over the years, Pastor Chris has had programs in South- Africa, United Kingdom, and Canada frequently. Progressively, the impact of these programs increased steadily and by 2010, the attendance, publicity, and impact could not be ignored. On the 20th of August, 2010, Pastor Chris used the O2 Arena for a crusade . The Auditorium was full to capacity and many had to be redirected to nearby Christ Embassy churches to watch via large screens. Same year in Canada, Pastor Chris used the International Center, Ontario, for a Night of Bliss, Canada which had over 12,000 people in attendance.

2011 Events

On the 11th of March, 2011, Christ Embassy organized a major program in South Africa tagged, Night of Bliss South Africa, at the FNB stadium. People began arriving for this event 24 hours before, and the 94,700 capacity stadium was filled to capacity. Over 700,000 tickets were given out for this event and many from outside South Africa were entreated to participate from their houses, as the event was streamed live via internet, several terrestrial and satellite stations. This event is currently being confirmed as the most ticketed event yet on earth. Prior to this event, Pastor Chris has used the Coca cola dome for a crusade, and by the second time he was going to use it, it was for a leadership training program for leaders in Southern Africa only.

Controversies

Pastor Chris has been accused of staging miracles. He was accused of offering 10,000 Rands to each person who gets healed at his meetings. This report caused mixed reaction by the internet public, and many raised eye brows at Pastor Chris' Ministry. However, due to lack of validity of claims, and many who out of curiosity attended subsequent meetings with Pastor Chris and became eye witnesses, this claims was debunked. Many argued on social networks and online discussion forums, that Pastor Chris has had healing meetings for several years in Nigeria and several others in UK and South Africa, with a three session healing school in Nigeria and South Africa respectively and only one person has made this accusation.

Healing HIV: Treatment Action Campaign has come out against the Pastor and Christ Embassy on claims to heal life threatening diseases such as HIV This was stirred up in response to the publicity for the Night of Bliss which held at the FNB Stadium, South-Africa, on the 11th of March 2011.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of Nigeria, an agency of the Nigerian government vested with the powers of prosecuting cases involving financial and economic crimes has placed Pastor Chris Oyakhilome under surveillance investigating an illegal transfer of $35 million USD from Nigeria to foreign bank accounts by his church. However, these are only rumors, as no one from the agency, and the agency itself has not validated these internet based rumors.

The money laundering charges are regarded by many people as un-substantiated since the sources are not named and have never been confirmed by EFCC. They are sparsely reported only by Internet-based Nigerian gossip papers.

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