Contrary to the news making rounds in the media, especially online that founder and president of Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC), Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo have quit preaching to face his real estate business, the National Superintendent and the Resident Pastor KICC Maryland-Lagos, Pastor Femi Faseru has described it as wicked lies.
Faseru in a statement on Tuesday, August 15, said the 71-year old fiery televangelist had no any plan to quit his service as a preacher in the Lord’s vineyard. He added that Pastor Ashimolowo still preaches, between three and four times every week all over the world.
According to the details issued by his office, which can be verified, Pastor Ashimolowo has not backed down on his busy schedule which requires him to Minister daily on ‘Morning Glow’ to people in over 50 nations.
“Rather than backpedal, the Senior Pastor of KICC is taking on fresh challenges. He has just established another independent ministry-Christ Compassion to the Rural World, which is planning a crusade for Ikorodu I’m Lagos State, next November,
“Ashimolowo gets better each passing year, as he has been preaching more than when he was younger, easily accomplishing nine services every week. These include five Morning Glows, three Sunday Services and Bible Study,” Faseru said.
“There is no iota of truth in the insinuation that Ashimolowo may have quit preaching the gospel to concentrate on real estate business. The report as absolutely baseless,” Faseru said.
Last February, Ashimolowo held the ground breaking of The Makarios Luxury Place, an upmarket mixed development seated on 33 hectares in Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos State, with fanfare.
“This project may be what mischief makers have taken out of context, without cross-checking available information. This type of journalism skirts the border of decency and injures the reputation of the victim, while courting libel to the publisher.
“To be sure, Ashimolowo remains a proud soldier of Christ, preaching His gospel with renewed enthusiasm as he has done for close to 50 years,” he added.
Ashimolowo had in January 2022, during one of his telecast, Winning Ways, announced his first son, Tobi Ashimolowo, as Resident Pastor 2 of the KICC in London. Tobi, he stated will be assisting his mother, Yemisi Ashimolowo, who has been the resident pastor at the church for a long time.
In the video, Ashimolowo said, “In a very major way from this morning, we will no longer have one resident pastor. Yemisi has always been our resident pastor, so she will be Resident Pastor 1. Our new resident pastor is Pastor Tobi Ashimolowo. So, he is our Resident Pastor 2; he has to take some serious responsibility from now on. These guys are retiring their father.”
He prayed that his son will be anointed and favoured by God, and that God will use him to draw his own generation to God, and to shake systems. Tobi is the founder of the Vault, a high-end store for men’s wear and accessories.
KICC is a Pentecostal church which has branches in Europe, America, Africa including Nigeria. It started in North London in 1992 by Reverend Matthew Ashimolowo. It reputed with its flagship telecast, Winning Ways, which is viewed all over Africa and Europe
According to its website, the church is “the largest growing church in Western Europe. As part of it objective, the church builds its members by investing in “the socio-economic and spiritual needs of multi-cultural communities and our overall desire and commitment to live our lives based on the teachings of Jesus Christ.”
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