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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

HOW MANY AIRPLANES DO YOU OWN, PREACHER MAN?


I didn't want to write this from a biased point of view, but it's hard not to have a salty vibe about this kind of topic. It is a little bit strange and unreasonable to me for a "man of God" to live lavishly when millions of people around him or sometimes her is living in abject poverty. Even if all of the people who attended their congregation were wealthy, the earth is full of people with so much need that people of God are meant to attend to by virtue of their faith. 
Oyedepo is the one with the silver looking zebra jacket thing

According to Forbes, Nigeria’s wealthiest pastor with a net worth of $150 million, David Oyedepo has four private jets. Not only does he have airplanes, apparently he owns an airline called Dominion Air. "In 1987 while he was in the United States, Oyedepo said he got a call from God to "get back home and make my people rich". He is known as the prosperity pastor btw!


Pastor Enoch Adeboye, head of the Redeemed Christian Church Of God (RCCG) has a Gulfstream aircraft worth $28 million.
It’s not cheap to own a private jet, but an airline? Common! It costs thousands of dollars annually to maintain a personal plane.
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome: Using Alcohol and Cigarette Is Not A SinChris Oyakhilome of Christ Embassy Nigeria, according to Forbes, has a net worth of about $50 million. in 2011 his real estate business was involved in a $35 million money laundering case with the Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).

Having grown up in the Christian faith, I understand it costs money to evangelize and to travel to parts of the world for crusades, but to multiple jets is extremely ridiculous, especially when these men are basically building their empires from tithes and offerings of church members; many who cant even afford to feed their families regularly in Nigeria. I remember going to a church in Nigeria few months ago and saw many of the church members walking on dusty roads to get to church. Many even carpool with 7 or 8 people in a small car meant to hold just five people just to get to church and give to the businesses of their Range Rover and Bentley driving pastors. 

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