The First Sacred Cherubim and Seraphim Church El-Bethel Shiloh Cathedral has commenced peniel clinic to celebrate this year harvest and thanksgiving service.
The Church begins the harvest programme by observing spiritual clinic on Wednesday November 20, 2024 06:00 pm with an hour prayer before night vigil that that lasted till 02:00 am on Thursday morning at its mercy land located at 1 Ojekunle Street, Off Amoo Street Oke Koto Agege, Lagos State.
The spiritual clinic is to prepare the body of Christ to unite in prayers and seek God’s mercy in all ramifications. The church organization believes very much in the efficacy of prayer, and affirm that God is still in the business of listening to the genuine cries of His people for help if they repent of their sins and look up to Him (2 Chronicles 7:14).
Cherubim & Seraphim Church El-Bethel Shiloh Cathedral Sanctuary at 68, Ipaja Road, Oke-Koto, Agege, Lagos State is well known for its spiritual prowess and discipline.
Harvest and Thanksgiving Service comes annually to glorify God in HIS mightiness and also to pay tribute to the founding fathers, the men and women who worked selflessly to bring the body of Christ together to where it is today. They defied all odds to ensure that Cherubim and Seraphim Church came to stay in Agege, Lagos State.
The church was the first C&S church in the ancient city of Agege and at a point the growth of the church and divine leading brought about acquiring a new site which was situated at Oke Koto, Agege and was dedicated in 1941.
Left-Right: Olushola Okunlade with SP. Apostle Emeritus Adetunji Adejokun (JP) CSCIWW General Overseer, Cherubim and Seraphim Church Ibukunoluwa
Highly recognised Ministers of God such as Elder Apostle Bola Odubela, JP Minister-in-Charge/Chairman Lagos Join District Council; SP. Apostle Emeritus Adetunji Adejokun (JP) CSCIWW General Overseer, Cherubim and Seraphim Church Ibukunoluwa; Secretary General Rev Apostle Mother (Olawunmi Gbadamosi Idowu) and many other anointed servants of God are at hand to grace the event.
According to Pastor Oluwasola Bankole, the harvest program begins with spiritual clinic on Wednesday 06:00 pm, there are hourly prayers going on in the church premises and night vigil from Wednesday, Thursday that only lasted till 02:00 am to accommodate those that will go to their various businesses and Friday night vigil will end 05:00 am on Saturday morning.
Bankole said there will be free medical checkup guided by medical professionals at the church premises on Friday 12:00 noon for everyone. The event also comes with other sidelined programmes till Sunday, the harvest and thanksgiving service, which is one of the activities lined up to celebrate this year harvest and thanksgiving service of the church.
“We are responsible organization and will continue to give back to the community that birth us and do everything within our ability to support the government and our people in every way possible”.
Cherubim & Seraphim Church El-Bethel Shiloh Cathedral in its rich history is a significant house of God with its achievement, considering were they are coming from.
The journey started in 1926, that is, just a year after Cherubim and Seraphim Society of Nigeria (as it was then known), was founded by Highly Revered Leader, Baba Aladura Moses Orimolade Tunolase.Moses Orimolade Tunolase’s first port of call was when he arrived Lagos from earlier evangelical crusades in the northern part of Nigeria was Lagos island where, fortuitously he met a young lady whom he had been invited to heal of an unusual illness. After her healing, Miss Abiodun Akinsowon (later captain Abiodun Emmanuel After marriage),who was highly spiritual, agreed to partner Baba Aladura Orimolade to move the society forward.
Then began the spread of the society outside Lagos Island; and one of it’s first places to berth was Agege in 1926. Being a relatively new religious organization, it is understandable why it was not readily accepted by indigenes, who were legally adherents of the African Traditional Religion, with it’s various rituals and another heathen practices.
However, a woman defied the challenges by the going around the neighborhood to preach, with the view to winning membership for the new religious movement. Then on Sunday, she would conduct a church service in her home, in a area called Atobaje in Agege.
Gradually, as Mrs. Rachael Hamilton (alias Mama Ibadan) intensified evangelism, with her children in tow, the church began to grow, was God led other people to partner with her on this onerous task.
As time went on, it became apparent that Mama Ibadan’s home could no longer contain worship person; and so, the search for bigger location began. By Divine leading, the present site was acquired and the first church was built and dedicated in 1941, It was the built of mud and thatched roofing materials. Less than two decades after, the need for a bigger and more modern church had become necessary, following the continuous growth in population. Thus began the building of the second church, which was dedicated in 1979.
In between the time of building the second church, the church embarked on many others development projects, Thus today, in other locations within Agege area, owned a Nursery and Primary, Maryland, Cemetery and event centre. They also established a second Shiloh church at Alakuko. All these are functional till date.
With all these development came more recognition for the church, and this won it the status of Sacred Cherubim & Seraphim Lagos headquarters and also produces the third General Superintendent (Baba Alakoso) of the sacred Cherubim & Seraphim of Nigeria & Overseas Venerable James Akinwunmi Philips (1958-1961). Again, there arose the need to expand the church to meet up with the space demands for its teeming population and also complement its exalted status as Lagos State headquarter and later the third church.
