A pastor at Winners Chapel has cried out after he was sacked for not generating enough money in his branch.

According to the pastor, mr Peter Godwin, he was invited by the state pastor and getting there he met other pastors about 40 and they were all sacked over low income in their branches.

Watch the video below from 2.44 minutes as a Living Faith Church Pastor reveals how he was sacked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLhcBEjpwxg

Blogger, Maureen Badejo also talks about the sack too. Watch from 40 minutes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_IpH8dndJk

Winners’ Chapel sacked me for failing to generate enough income -Pastor

Pastor Peter Godwin, a cleric with the Living Faith Church International, popularly known as Winners Chapel, says the church sacked him and about 40 other pastors in Ekiti State for failing to grow their respective parishes.

The PUNCH, however, learnt that the figure may be much higher than 40 nationwide.

In a letter that has been trending on social media, which is dated June 25, 2021 and signed by the Executive Secretary of the church, Adebisi Aboluwade, the pastors were asked to vacate their official accommodation and hand over their identity cards to their respective area pastors.

One of the letters reads in part, “Consequent upon the recent performance reviews which revealed that your church growth index falls below expectations.

“Please be informed that your services as a pastor in charge are no longer required from this commission with immediate effect.

“You are to vacate the official accommodation (where applicable) and hand over all properties of the ministry in your custody, including your staff identity card to the area pastor before departure.

“May you find grace for a new beginning. Peace.”

In a trending video, Pastor Godwin, who claimed to be one of the pastors affected in Ekiti State, said he was employed on August 28, 2020.

He claimed that he was invited with about 40 of his colleagues by the state pastor on July 1, 2021, but was sacked for failing to grow the revenue of the church.

The pastor said that, on July 1, he received a call that the state pastor wanted to see him, and that he was surprised to see about 40 other pastors when he arrived.

Godwin said, “When I got there, I saw other pastors too, over 40 of them. So, I joined them.

“A few minutes later, we were [each] issued a letter. I opened the content of the letter to see what was there and I saw that it was a sack letter.

“So, I called the management the next day to find out what happened since I wasn’t involved in any dubious activity or evil act. I was told by the management that the church doesn’t operate at a loss.

“They also told me that the total income that is being generated from my station should be able to cater for my welfare and accommodation, so as a result of low income, I’m hereby dismissed.”

It was learnt that the church was working on a statement for an official response.

Reaction from within Winners’ Chapel
A source within the church, however, told The PUNCH that the sacking of the pastors had nothing to do with money; rather, the source said, it involved membership growth.

“As indicated in the letter, pastors were sacked for failing to grow membership, which is a key aspect of the ministry.

“It had nothing to do with money and nowhere in any of the letters of disengagement was it stated that it was about money,” the source said.

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Omo.. business gats move forward na..even the fig tree that wasn't producing was cut down..

Pastors should take this as a lesson to venture into other businesses about from church so as not to be caught in a sapastic moment like this..

This can’t be real, so the church is truly a business enterprise

tillaman:
This can’t be real

May I inquire as to why it can't be true?

the church is a business to these holy men, they dont care about anything else than MONEYand TITHE!

Op change the headline to "CEO sacks 40 brancch managers for not meeting up to Expectations".
I will not remind you again!

Business is business

If true, It wouldn't be surprise because this is a sad but true reality of what the church has turn into these days.

Not much different from the world to whom the church was sent.

One man who I had great respect while growing up was Benson Idahosa. If I'd be honest, I respected him more than God. If God says a thing and he says something else, I would easily take what he says over that of God. So when I see many Christians do same today with their church leaders, i understand where they're coming from because i've been there and done that myself.

One day in late Nineties, a bishop in Idahosa's church, when there were just three of them, who was a family member lamented seriously about how it had become about how much money they brought to the headquarters in Benin City where Benson Idahosa was still in charge.

Although I wasn't yet saved at the time, I wasn't very comfortable with that news, as Benson Idahosa was a man i looked up to with great respect, and that didn't sound very nice in my ears.

It was clear that he had drifted from what he used to be, and began to chase the riches and things of this world which Jesus says chokes the Word and make it not to bear fruits to perfection in one's life.

It was that glaring that after his death his church made it a mandate to go back to their founding principles of evangelism being their supreme task.

So when i speak the way i do about the loss of focus of today's church leaders concerning the things of God, that they now prioritize the lesser things like tithing, I am not speaking because I just want to speak, but I know what I'm talking about.

It's the sad reality of what the church has become today.

I pray the church gets back to the ways of the early church where it was all about God.

God bless.

Lies... I don't believe this.

I believe Oyedepo is more of winning souls rather than mundane things...

obonujoker:
Lies... I don't believe this.

I believe Oyedepo is more of winning souls rather than mundane things...

Sure, he is more for winning souls to fill the seats in his auditoriums, who then fill his coffers so he can build some more and expand his kingdom here on earth.

Kobojunkie:
Sure, he is more for winning souls to fill the seats in his auditoriums, who then fill his coffers so he can build some more and expand his kingdom here on earth.

So he is not thinking of rapture like our nairaland pastor?

It is well

obonujoker:
So he is not thinking of rapture like our nairaland pastor?

Which Rapture?

The man probably has a 30-year plan in place to ensure continued growth and expansion of his kingdom here on earth.

Or maybe longer like Kenneth Hagin, I think, who believes he will not live a minute less than 120 in his kingdom here on earth.

Business as usual as Jehovah their god remains caged in his spiritual cage. Eyes of the gullibles are opening daily.

obonujoker:
Lies... I don't believe this.

I believe Oyedepo is more of winning souls rather than mundane things...

Be deceiving ur self there... Don't u know the church( nowadays) is an extortion business limited

Kobojunkie:
May I inquire as to why it can't be true?

How are you sure it's true?

Bodydiialect57:

How are you sure it's true?

This particular story? I don't know but what I do know for a fact is that the Church that is Jesus Christ's is built by Jesus Christ whereas all your churches in the world are social clubs/business built by the hands of your pastors and Mogs who profit and benefit from them.

They are nothing but "glorified" social businesses built and managed by the men whose kingdoms they expand here on earth.

Kobojunkie:
This particular story? I don't know but what I do know for a fact is that the Church that is Jesus Christ's is built by Jesus Christ whereas all your churches in the world are social clubs/business built by the hands of your pastors and Mogs who profit and benefit from them.

They are nothing but "glorified" social businesses built and managed by the men whose kingdoms they expand here on earth.

Are you part of Jesus Christ's Church?

Bodydiialect57:
Are you part of Jesus Christ's Church?

Yes, the one and only!

Kobojunkie:
Yes, the one and only!

That's great.

Ok.

What?

Yahweh right now

It's a normal thing in business abeg. You people should let him rest. If other financial institutions like Union Bank and GTB can do same, why are people raising voice about Winner Chapel?

Lately I stopped attending church because I see most of them as a business center....one certain church in pH if you no book seat online you can't gain access to the church on sunday

Yahoo ni Baba alawo, Ole ni everybody..........

sorsor:
Jesus wept

My brother this one pass Jesus Wept. Jesus Chai(ed)

GOOD. SACK THEM ALL FOR MISAPPROPRIATING CHURCH FUNDS. THEY'RE THIEFS AND LOOTERS OF CHURCH ASSETS.

These are the true followers of christ na ��

Kobojunkie:
This particular story? I don't know but what I do know for a fact is that the Church that is Jesus Christ's is built by Jesus Christ whereas all your churches in the world are social clubs/business built by the hands of your pastors and Mogs who profit and benefit from them.

They are nothing but "glorified" social businesses built and managed by the men whose kingdoms they expand here on earth.

They are practicing what is in the scripture and also following christ footstep

2dominate:

They are practicing what is in the scripture and also following christ footstep

How did you arrive at this conclusion?