Wife of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Mrs Folu Adeboye has recounted how a pastor in the church absconded with 8000 dollars given to him for the purpose of missions and also abandoned his wife in South Africa to marry another woman in the US.
She gave the account while ministering recently during a programme organised for men in the church.
A clip of the event which was shared online was monitored by Church Times.
In the message, Mrs Adeboye said the incident that led to the action of the pastor happened when she went to Cape Town, South Africa for missions and had to preach in the RCCG parish where the man was pastor. The place used for service was an eatery
As she was ministering, a woman came and was packing the chairs at the venue apparently telling the worshippers their time was up since the place was rented.
Mrs Adeboye said she was taken aback by the action of the woman and asked the pastor what it would cost to get a permanent site for the parish.
The pastor whom she described as an Ekiti pastor told her with just 8000 dollars they could begin the process of raising funds to buy a permanent site for the parish.
He told her tourism was a thriving business in South Africa that the money would be used to buy a fairly used vehicle and handed over to a tourism agency that will be giving returns to the church which would eventually be used to buy a permanent site.
Mrs Adeboye was excited at the suggestion and quickly got the money and handed over to him.
Unknown to her, the pastor had a different plan. As soon as he collected the money, he travelled to the US and left his wife in South Africa.
Mrs Adeboye said the pastor went to the US to marry another woman.
“The woman she abandoned in South Africa is presently in a terrible state now almost running mad,” Mrs Adeboye lamented.
She then asked the men saying, ‘RCCG men, what are we going to do? Are we going to continue with such a lying spirit, a deceitful spirit to the God of the kingdom?” The men responded, with a chorus no.
She then added, ‘that is why we have this landmark meeting. We must go back to the old path where we look up to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.’
She continued, “We must get to the point where we say wherever he leads we follow. We were in this bush (referring the redemption camp). For three years there was no light. We went back to the days of lantern and we were grinding with stone whereas where we were coming from we had grinding machine, we had washing machine.”
While noting that they may not know where God would take them to, he assured that they have a bright future only if they remain faithful.