As the 2023 Nigerian General Elections draws closer, Christ Embassy aka Love World, organised a prayer crusade in Bayelsa State asking God to instil good leaders that will pilot the affairs of the country in the next four years.

The prayer crusade, which took place on Friday at the Bayelsa Medical University Car park Yenagoa, was an all-night affair.

Briefing journalists on Tuesday evening in Yenagoa, the head of Programme Secretariat and Zonal Head of Operations, South-South Zone 1, Pastor Tokunbo Umeasiegbu said the crusade, which is tagged ‘Bayelsa Prayer Crusade’, is a non-denominational prayer meeting for all the churches and residents of the state.

Umeasiegbu stated that the prayer crusade is billed to bring divine healing upon the land of Bayelsa and Nigeria as a whole stating that the prayer session was coming at the beginning of the year as well as at a very important time in the nation’s history.

Christ Embassy is a megachurch and Christian denomination founded by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome in 1987.

The Church, with its headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, has since become a global network of churches, with congregations in many countries and has approximately 13,000,000 followers all over the world.

The Church has ministries in Canada, Nigeria, South Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom.

The church started with a prayer group led by Chris Oyakhilome, at Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, while he was studying architecture in 1987.

Several other ministries around the world participate in its programs and conferences like the International Pastors and Partners Conference (IPPC) which holds every November in Lagos, Nigeria; the International Cell Leaders’ Conference (ICLC) which holds in the middle of the year; the International School of Ministry; the Healing School, etc.

The publishing house, Loveworld Publications, affiliated to the network of churches, published his first book in 1995, Recreating Your World.

 Loveworld Publications has published all the books by Chris Oyakhilome, including Rhapsody of Realities daily devotional published in over 5500 languages

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