By Leke Beecroft
On Monday, 13th August 2018, Dr Paul Enenche is set to host both his State Governor, Samuel Ortom as well as his spiritual father, Bishop Oyedepo, Bishop David Abioye and others as he marks his 50th birthday belatedly.
The Dunamis pastor who clocked 50 on 4th June 2018 initially had a low-keyed birthday however his wife, Dr Becky Enenche was able to get the Church congregation to sing him a birthday song to mark that special day as the Pastor is not one big on his own birthday celebrations.
Recently however, it was gathered by Church Gist that he will be hosting dignitaries and many others as he also leads them to The Lord’s Garden and particularly to the Glory Dome to see what the almost completed project looks like.
The project, a 100,000 capacity Glory Dome which is billed to be the largest church auditorium on earth commenced in September 2014 when Bishop Oyedepo was invited to the groundbreaking event in Abuja.
Contrary to insinuations that churches are competing, Church Gist gathered that Bishop Oyedepo has infact encouraged the 50 year old pastor and his spiritual son to increase the size of the project so that he would not need to build a bigger one in the near future as is now the case at the 50,000 Faith Tabernacle which was completed in 1999 and in less than 20 years is already holding 5 services on Sunday necessitating the need for a new auditorium to be known as the Faith Theatre within the premises of Canaanland.
Another son of Bishop Oyedepo, Pastor Ibiyeomie of Salvation Ministries, was encouraged by the Bishop to increase the Port Harcourt Church project from 40,000.
Bishop Oyedepo had told him ‘You can do better than your father’ when he heard of the initial size of the auditorium.
The Pastor over 157,000 Sunday worshippers in Port Harcourt, Rivers State therefore increased the size of the ‘Hand of God’ project to 90,000 and is also set to complete the project this year, thus ensuring that Bishop Oyedepo and his spiritual sons, Enenche and Ibiyeomie together pastor and mentor the largest chunk of weekly worshippers in a single place all over the world.