IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has revealed details about his childhood in a new Facebook live video aired on Sunday.
The revered cleric who made the revelation during a sermon on Sunday where he revealed that his parents were so poor that the people who were poor also called his father poor.
“Some of you who know a little bit about my background, you know when they talk about people coming from a rocky background, that means from a background of hardship.
“My own rocky background was rock among the rocks. My father was so poor, (that) poor people called him poor.
“The elders have a saying, when there is hardship for the husband, and hardship for the wife, there must be hardship for the children.
“The hardship rubbed off on me. For the first 18 years of my life, I had no shoes. My father was so poor.
“The day he bought an umbrella, we were rejoicing, but look at me today, look at what Jesus can do, He can change the poor to the rich; change the unknown to the known.”