Winners Chapel Denied It Sacked Pastors Because Of Low Revenue

By Akinwale Kasali

The Founder and General Overseer of Living Faith Church Worldwide popularly known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has denied the allegation that  40 Pastors include Pastor Savve Noome of Tse Ashinya District, Benue State, were sacked  because of low revenue they were generating.

Pastor Noome had made the allegation in a Video that went viral on WhatsApp. The video was backed up with the letter of sack.

But according to the Executive Secretary of the Church, Adebisi Aboluwade, the Pastor was sacked based on performance review, that shows that the Church growth index has fallen drastically.

Aboluwade made available to this news medium the sack letter given to the Pastor to show that it was based on his poor performance and not based on the allegation making the rounds.

On Sunday July 18th 2021, the social media was awash with the sack of the Pastor, with online users lambasting the Church for sacking the Pastor due to low generation of  income following an accusation by one of the Pastors.

According to Pastor  Peter Godwin, he was sacked by the Church for not generating enough money in his branch.

Godwin claimed that he was invited with about forty of his colleagues by the State’s Pastor on July 1, 2021, and were all sacked over low income in their branches.

He said, “Actually, by the special grace of God, our father in this great assembly, Living Faith Church received a mandate from the Lord to plant 10,000 churches in Nigeria and by the special grace of God, I was privileged to be one of the pastors that were employed on the 28th of August, 2020, that was last year.

“So after that, I started working, engaging myself in the work of the Lord. I tried my possible best to make sure I win souls for Christ but unfortunately, on the 1st of July, I received a call that the state pastor wants to see me, so I thought I was the only one. I was surprised, so I went to his office.

“When I got there, I saw other pastors too, over 40 of them, so I joined them. A few minutes later, we were issued a letter. I opened the content of the letter to see what was there and I saw that it was a sack letter.