RCCG - The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye who turned 66 today, has stressed that next to salvation, education is the most important that any human being should focus on getting.

Daddy G.O. as he is popularly called by millions of followers worldwide, was born on 2nd March, 1942 in Ifewara, a small farming town in Osun State, Nigeria, but which he calls Ifewara City. He was born into a very poor polygamous family. “ My father was so poor that even the poor in the village called him poor”, admitted the modest preacher.

Inspite of the fact that his father had limited land to cultivate and the level of the family’s poverty was so acute, that little Enoch did not put on any shoes until 1959, when he became 17 years old, the young man knew what he wanted in life.

Propelled by the legacy of hardwork, passed on to him by his father, another factor, which helped the Ijesa man, whose favourite meal is pounded yam and egusi soup, was his zeal. Even as thick as the poverty which enveloped him was, he was determined to become, not only Nigeria’s, but Africa’s youngest Vice-Chancellor and he knew that the only way out of the woods for him was through education.

How he knew that education could liberate him out of poverty at such a tender age, one cannot say. But when at the age of 13, he gained admission into Ilesa Grammar School and his parents said they had no money to pay his school fees, he went on hunger strike.

Pastor Adeboye, who is humility personified, believes so much in education and once said during an interview, on Monday, 22nd January, 2007, at the Redemption Camp that, “………… Next to salvation ( I mean salvation of your soul and everything that goes with it-baptism, the Holy Spirit, etc.) what everybody should have is education. I don’t know where I would be today if God did not allow me to be educated.”

And that is why the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), under his leadership, is trying to do her very best concerning the education of the people. The church, which has nursery, primary and secondary schools, also has a college of technology and a university, while a vocational school is in the pipeline. Altogether, the RCCG has over sixty schools. What the Adeboye family lacked in wealth they have in good name and in abundance too. “Of course, he (Pastor Adeboye’s father) had a very good name because the people in the village were struggling to marry my sisters. They wanted to marry into a good home and all my elderly brothers, not a single one of them had problem getting a girl to marry as poor as we were because of the good name of my parents”, said Daddy G.O.

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