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Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by whistleblower98(op): 2:39pm On Feb 22
TYRANNY RESULTING IN THE LOOMING EXODUS OF MINISTERS AND CONGREGATION MEMBERS

LAYING A FOUNDATION FOR A TYRANNICAL LEADERSHIP
Pastor Oghogho Ayanru resumed as Provincial Pastor at RCCG Olive Tree Parish on Sunday 15th September 2024.

Since his arrival, he methodically laid the foundation for his tyrannical leadership which he has unleashed on the Parish.

He started by holding meetings with the ministers and workers during which he told them that they can’t advise him, offer him feedback or make any suggestions to him because he is the Provincial Pastor, and all he expects from them is for them to pray for him, this includes those who are also older than him.

His general attitude and carriage are that he is favoured and untouchable. This is backed up by his utterances in which he affirms his closeness to an elderly retired Pastor, Pastor Tokunbo Adesanya who is said to be “very close” to the General Overseer of RCCG, Pastor E.A. Adeboye.

SHEPHERD VERSUS MEGALOMANIAC
His conduct since arriving at Olive Tree Parish is one of contempt, disregard and high handedness towards the congregation, workers and ministers. He is known to have stated several times that “The people at Olive Tree think they can control him, because they have money”. This is despite the warm welcome and open arms with which the congregation received him and his now-late wife on their arrival.

A pastor is supposed to be a shepherd of his flock (congregation), available, accessible and accommodating towards his flock. However, this is a foreign concept to Pastor Ayanru. For instance, he established a barrier between himself and his parishioners, workers and even his ministers by insisting that anyone who wants to see him must book an appointment with the church administrator. Even when the appointments are booked, he still does not honour the appointments. In the case of two workers, he still has not seen them more than a year after they booked an appointment to see him.

Even on Sundays after service when people typically see their pastors, he is known to have told ministers, that he doesn’t see anyone on Sundays because “he is not a busybody Pastor” as he mentioned at a recent meeting where he addressed newcomers to Olive Tree.

Allied to this, he usurped the pastoral lounge set up by his predecessor, his excellency Pastor Prof Yemi Osinbajo and turned it into his personal office. To cement his desire to be inaccessible, he placed a lock on the door that makes anyone standing in front of the door feel as though he or she is standing in front of an office at The Pentagon rather than a Pastors office.

DISMANTLING OF EXISTING CHURCH MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
Upon his arrival he immediately began dismantling the existing church management structure.

Olive Tree Parish is a big church with over 30 departments. To facilitate effective management and communication between the pastor and these departments, previous leadership shortened the pastors span of control by clustering the 30 departments into about 12 directorates, headed by directorate heads overseeing the heads of departments while in turn reporting to the provincial pastor. The rationale here, is that it is easier and more realistic for the provincial pastor to work directly with 12 directorate heads instead of 30 department heads. Being a control freak, Pastor Ayanru was unsatisfied with the structure, and therefore proceeded to dismantle it, preferring to deal with heads of departments.

However, as it turns out, it was a decoy to allow him upstage ministers he met on arrival (whom he felt he could not control) and install some ministers that followed from his previous parish, in their stead. A notable example is the Sunday School Department where a seasoned existing minister (Pastor Kunle Osibodu) was removed and replaced by a minister from his previous church, Pastor Frank Aigbogun.
Systematically, he swept aside all the senior ministers who were serving as Directorate Heads without any formal one on one discussions with the affected ministers.

QUESTIONABLE FINANCIAL INTEGRITY
Prior to his arrival, Olive Tree Parish had a financial management structure that appointed 4 signatories to church accounts. All previous Pastors in Charge and Provincial Pastors have always maintained the above financial structure and were not signatories in order to ensure integrity and avoid conflicts of interest.

Pastor Ayanru however, removed all signatories preceding his arrival and installed himself as the sole signatory to all church accounts, replacing transparency with opaqueness, with respect to all financial transactions.

You would wonder, why an experienced pastor like Ayanru, who is also a lawyer by trade, would make these decisions which call his integrity into question. The answer lies in what he has done with regards to church finances and procurement practices. He has shown total disregard and contempt for the existing procurement guidelines and policy. A case in point is his purchase of office furniture single-handedly. This fell outside the procurement policy which would have precluded his participation from the procurement transaction since he is the recipient of the furniture.

A second and more troubling example of his financial recklessness is his decision to abandon the existing onsite provincial office built by his excellency Pastor Prof Yemi Osinbajo and rent and furnish a new office in Ikoyi at an exorbitant cost in a transaction handled from start to finish by himself alone, again operating outside the procurement policy framework.

Apart from this being a classic conflict of interest case, the new office in Ikoyi is smaller that the onsite office he abandoned, there is no parking space for staff and visitors, and staff must park on the Olive Tree Parish premises and then commute by church bus to the Ikoyi office. Interestingly though, Pastor Ayanru spends more time at his Olive Tree office than in the acquired Ikoyi office. You have to wonder how this makes sense, given the colossal waste of money involved, and the inefficiencies described. Perhaps the answer lies in the allegation that he is allegedly using that office as a law office for his private practice.

Pastor Ayanru has access to several service providers that he engages to provide services to the church without competitive bidding or any other form of recourse to the procurement policy and its guidelines. To facilitate his financial conduct described above, he has engaged the accountant in his former Parish to serve as the provincial accountant.

To appreciate how reprehensible the financial misconduct described above is, Pastor Ayanru is wasting scare financial resources on grandiose and needless expenses when Olive Tree Parish has an undeveloped property 100 or so meters away from the main parish. The undeveloped property was intended to be a Christian Resource Centre over 14 years ago and as such should in theory be the key priority for Olive Tree Parish and the Province.

DESTROYING EXCELLENCE TO SATISFY HIS WHIMS AND CAPRICES
Pastor Ayanru met an Olive Tree Parish blessed by committed ministers and professionals. However, in his megalomaniacal desire to control and entrench his preferences instead of upholding RCCG’s doctrine, he has systematically destroyed areas of the church. Another recent example is his vindictive demolition of the marriage counselling and family affairs directorate, purely motivated by the fact that the two most senior ministers in the directorate stood up to him when he asked them to act contrary to the guidelines and framework of the RCCG mission.
In doing so, he has replaced two ministers who are qualified and trained marriage counsellors, with a minister who though seasoned, nonetheless has no formal marriage counselling training and qualifications. This is the extent to which Pastor Ayanru is prepared to go to have things done “his way”.

CONSEQUENCES OF TYRANNICAL LEADERSHIP
As a consequence of the actions of Pastor Ayanru, Parishioners are leaving Olive Tree Parish.

Ministers who he tried to force into new roles with no prior discussion with them on his intention to give them new appointments, declined said appointments. Some others have resigned altogether.

By refusing to deal decisively with his equally high-handed Parish Church Administrator, Pastor Ojuolape Abolarin, who daily terrorises church office staff. The church now has a situation where the church office staff are traumatised, disengaged and are afraid to come to work. This has already led to some resignations.

There is widespread disaffection amongst Pastors within Lagos Province 48 which Pastor Ayanru oversees. For those remaining at Olive Tree Parish, Pastor Ayanru has created an “Us” versus “Them” atmosphere between the congregation that he met on arrival and his cronies he brought from his former parish.

Olive Tree Parish once a beacon of excellence within The Favoured Family is on the verge of destruction unless the RCCG hierarchy intervenes.
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by okomile(f): 2:44pm On Feb 22
Not my business

Next pls
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by rickpat(m): 2:44pm On Feb 22
Who cares?

Mtchewww....consider another religion, if this one no favour you...
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by Sangoamadioha1: 3:41pm On Feb 22
Is this a church you are talking about or a government ministry huh Everything said here is not about spreading the word of God but just clashes of over bloated egos.
Make una name am what it really is, a social club where you guys go to every Sunday morning 🫤
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by delpee(f): 3:54pm On Feb 22
Shouldn't this report be sent to your Area coordinator or HQ instead of posting it here?
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by Nobody: 4:01pm On Feb 22
Firstly, I think this is actually the wrong place for this. Why not take it straight to the G.O, I thought churches were allowed to write petitions?

Secondly, I’m sure he’s acting based on what he was told about the parish before his arrival. Some people are so bitter they would spoil a particular congregation before a pastor and with time he might change but the financial aspect, that’s a no no, there’s more to that.
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by kokoA(m): 4:01pm On Feb 22
I am not a shareholder in the business so e no concern me. undecided
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by youngsahito(m): 4:11pm On Feb 22
So e people can only be jealous because he doesn't bend to their rules. Big man wahala for church
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by untoldtruth: 4:13pm On Feb 22
Why did you make me read this epistle na? Your church structure doesn't have fast track petitioning department? This will hardly make FrontPage if that's what you're aiming for
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by CJStarz: 4:47pm On Feb 22
RCCG?
Ike gwuru situation
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by kingthreat(m): 5:20pm On Feb 22
whistleblower98:
TYRANNY RESULTING IN THE LOOMING EXODUS OF MINISTERS AND CONGREGATION MEMBERS

LAYING A FOUNDATION FOR A TYRANNICAL LEADERSHIP
Pastor Oghogho Ayanru resumed as Provincial Pastor at RCCG Olive Tree Parish on Sunday 15th September 2024.

Since his arrival, he methodically laid the foundation for his tyrannical leadership which he has unleashed on the Parish.

He started by holding meetings with the ministers and workers during which he told them that they can’t advise him, offer him feedback or make any suggestions to him because he is the Provincial Pastor, and all he expects from them is for them to pray for him, this includes those who are also older than him.

His general attitude and carriage are that he is favoured and untouchable. This is backed up by his utterances in which he affirms his closeness to an elderly retired Pastor, Pastor Tokunbo Adesanya who is said to be “very close” to the General Overseer of RCCG, Pastor E.A. Adeboye.

SHEPHERD VERSUS MEGALOMANIAC
His conduct since arriving at Olive Tree Parish is one of contempt, disregard and high handedness towards the congregation, workers and ministers. He is known to have stated several times that “The people at Olive Tree think they can control him, because they have money”. This is despite the warm welcome and open arms with which the congregation received him and his now-late wife on their arrival.

A pastor is supposed to be a shepherd of his flock (congregation), available, accessible and accommodating towards his flock. However, this is a foreign concept to Pastor Ayanru. For instance, he established a barrier between himself and his parishioners, workers and even his ministers by insisting that anyone who wants to see him must book an appointment with the church administrator. Even when the appointments are booked, he still does not honour the appointments. In the case of two workers, he still has not seen them more than a year after they booked an appointment to see him.

Even on Sundays after service when people typically see their pastors, he is known to have told ministers, that he doesn’t see anyone on Sundays because “he is not a busybody Pastor” as he mentioned at a recent meeting where he addressed newcomers to Olive Tree.

Allied to this, he usurped the pastoral lounge set up by his predecessor, his excellency Pastor Prof Yemi Osinbajo and turned it into his personal office. To cement his desire to be inaccessible, he placed a lock on the door that makes anyone standing in front of the door feel as though he or she is standing in front of an office at The Pentagon rather than a Pastors office.

DISMANTLING OF EXISTING CHURCH MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
Upon his arrival he immediately began dismantling the existing church management structure.

Olive Tree Parish is a big church with over 30 departments. To facilitate effective management and communication between the pastor and these departments, previous leadership shortened the pastors span of control by clustering the 30 departments into about 12 directorates, headed by directorate heads overseeing the heads of departments while in turn reporting to the provincial pastor. The rationale here, is that it is easier and more realistic for the provincial pastor to work directly with 12 directorate heads instead of 30 department heads. Being a control freak, Pastor Ayanru was unsatisfied with the structure, and therefore proceeded to dismantle it, preferring to deal with heads of departments.

However, as it turns out, it was a decoy to allow him upstage ministers he met on arrival (whom he felt he could not control) and install some ministers that followed from his previous parish, in their stead. A notable example is the Sunday School Department where a seasoned existing minister (Pastor Kunle Osibodu) was removed and replaced by a minister from his previous church, Pastor Frank Aigbogun.
Systematically, he swept aside all the senior ministers who were serving as Directorate Heads without any formal one on one discussions with the affected ministers.

QUESTIONABLE FINANCIAL INTEGRITY
Prior to his arrival, Olive Tree Parish had a financial management structure that appointed 4 signatories to church accounts. All previous Pastors in Charge and Provincial Pastors have always maintained the above financial structure and were not signatories in order to ensure integrity and avoid conflicts of interest.

Pastor Ayanru however, removed all signatories preceding his arrival and installed himself as the sole signatory to all church accounts, replacing transparency with opaqueness, with respect to all financial transactions.

You would wonder, why an experienced pastor like Ayanru, who is also a lawyer by trade, would make these decisions which call his integrity into question. The answer lies in what he has done with regards to church finances and procurement practices. He has shown total disregard and contempt for the existing procurement guidelines and policy. A case in point is his purchase of office furniture single-handedly. This fell outside the procurement policy which would have precluded his participation from the procurement transaction since he is the recipient of the furniture.

A second and more troubling example of his financial recklessness is his decision to abandon the existing onsite provincial office built by his excellency Pastor Prof Yemi Osinbajo and rent and furnish a new office in Ikoyi at an exorbitant cost in a transaction handled from start to finish by himself alone, again operating outside the procurement policy framework.

Apart from this being a classic conflict of interest case, the new office in Ikoyi is smaller that the onsite office he abandoned, there is no parking space for staff and visitors, and staff must park on the Olive Tree Parish premises and then commute by church bus to the Ikoyi office. Interestingly though, Pastor Ayanru spends more time at his Olive Tree office than in the acquired Ikoyi office. You have to wonder how this makes sense, given the colossal waste of money involved, and the inefficiencies described. Perhaps the answer lies in the allegation that he is allegedly using that office as a law office for his private practice.

Pastor Ayanru has access to several service providers that he engages to provide services to the church without competitive bidding or any other form of recourse to the procurement policy and its guidelines. To facilitate his financial conduct described above, he has engaged the accountant in his former Parish to serve as the provincial accountant.

To appreciate how reprehensible the financial misconduct described above is, Pastor Ayanru is wasting scare financial resources on grandiose and needless expenses when Olive Tree Parish has an undeveloped property 100 or so meters away from the main parish. The undeveloped property was intended to be a Christian Resource Centre over 14 years ago and as such should in theory be the key priority for Olive Tree Parish and the Province.

DESTROYING EXCELLENCE TO SATISFY HIS WHIMS AND CAPRICES
Pastor Ayanru met an Olive Tree Parish blessed by committed ministers and professionals. However, in his megalomaniacal desire to control and entrench his preferences instead of upholding RCCG’s doctrine, he has systematically destroyed areas of the church. Another recent example is his vindictive demolition of the marriage counselling and family affairs directorate, purely motivated by the fact that the two most senior ministers in the directorate stood up to him when he asked them to act contrary to the guidelines and framework of the RCCG mission.
In doing so, he has replaced two ministers who are qualified and trained marriage counsellors, with a minister who though seasoned, nonetheless has no formal marriage counselling training and qualifications. This is the extent to which Pastor Ayanru is prepared to go to have things done “his way”.

CONSEQUENCES OF TYRANNICAL LEADERSHIP
As a consequence of the actions of Pastor Ayanru, Parishioners are leaving Olive Tree Parish.

Ministers who he tried to force into new roles with no prior discussion with them on his intention to give them new appointments, declined said appointments. Some others have resigned altogether.

By refusing to deal decisively with his equally high-handed Parish Church Administrator, Pastor Ojuolape Abolarin, who daily terrorises church office staff. The church now has a situation where the church office staff are traumatised, disengaged and are afraid to come to work. This has already led to some resignations.

There is widespread disaffection amongst Pastors within Lagos Province 48 which Pastor Ayanru oversees. For those remaining at Olive Tree Parish, Pastor Ayanru has created an “Us” versus “Them” atmosphere between the congregation that he met on arrival and his cronies he brought from his former parish.

Olive Tree Parish once a beacon of excellence within The Favoured Family is on the verge of destruction unless the RCCG hierarchy intervenes.
Seems RCCG has some administration problems. For the then head pastor of City of David to go on unabated for years before there was a public outcry that got him suspended, this means that many Province heads are doing worse. And also OP won't be sharing church business here if there is a reliable channel to report erring ministers.
The church needs to do better.
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by Elzazzi: 5:43pm On Feb 22
Sangoamadioha1:
Is this a church you are talking about or a government ministry huh Everything said here is not about spreading the word of God but just clashes of over bloated egos.
Make una name am what it really is, a social club where you guys go to every Sunday morning 🫤
EFCC chairman na Redeem Pastor

Remi Tinubu na Redeem Pastor

Osinbajo Redeem Pastor

That Isaac guy wey be APC youth leader na Redeem Pastor. You can name the rests.

So you can imagine the internal politics wey go Dey go inside the church.
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by MemoriesAndMe: 6:03pm On Feb 22
This is all biased statements from a disgruntled church member.
Why not post this in your church internal memo or whatshap group? Why nairaland? Does everyone here attend your church?
Nonsense.
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by Okoyeeboz: 6:16pm On Feb 22
Pastor na sole Signatory grin

That is very interesting
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by Globad(f): 6:28pm On Feb 22
Who cares?

How is this our business? Una go suffer for workplace still suffer for worship place.

If the place is not favorable or friendly to you, quit
You have other options: change to another church or even quit Christianity. Become a muslim or an agnostic. Stop disturbing us. .
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by free2ryhme: 6:38pm On Feb 22
whistleblower98:
TYRANNY RESULTING IN THE LOOMING EXODUS OF MINISTERS AND CONGREGATION MEMBERS

LAYING A FOUNDATION FOR A TYRANNICAL LEADERSHIP
Pastor Oghogho Ayanru resumed as Provincial Pastor at RCCG Olive Tree Parish on Sunday 15th September 2024.

Since his arrival, he methodically laid the foundation for his tyrannical leadership which he has unleashed on the Parish.

He started by holding meetings with the ministers and workers during which he told them that they can’t advise him, offer him feedback or make any suggestions to him because he is the Provincial Pastor, and all he expects from them is for them to pray for him, this includes those who are also older than him.

His general attitude and carriage are that he is favoured and untouchable. This is backed up by his utterances in which he affirms his closeness to an elderly retired Pastor, Pastor Tokunbo Adesanya who is said to be “very close” to the General Overseer of RCCG, Pastor E.A. Adeboye.

SHEPHERD VERSUS MEGALOMANIAC
His conduct since arriving at Olive Tree Parish is one of contempt, disregard and high handedness towards the congregation, workers and ministers. He is known to have stated several times that “The people at Olive Tree think they can control him, because they have money”. This is despite the warm welcome and open arms with which the congregation received him and his now-late wife on their arrival.

A pastor is supposed to be a shepherd of his flock (congregation), available, accessible and accommodating towards his flock. However, this is a foreign concept to Pastor Ayanru. For instance, he established a barrier between himself and his parishioners, workers and even his ministers by insisting that anyone who wants to see him must book an appointment with the church administrator. Even when the appointments are booked, he still does not honour the appointments. In the case of two workers, he still has not seen them more than a year after they booked an appointment to see him.

Even on Sundays after service when people typically see their pastors, he is known to have told ministers, that he doesn’t see anyone on Sundays because “he is not a busybody Pastor” as he mentioned at a recent meeting where he addressed newcomers to Olive Tree.

Allied to this, he usurped the pastoral lounge set up by his predecessor, his excellency Pastor Prof Yemi Osinbajo and turned it into his personal office. To cement his desire to be inaccessible, he placed a lock on the door that makes anyone standing in front of the door feel as though he or she is standing in front of an office at The Pentagon rather than a Pastors office.

DISMANTLING OF EXISTING CHURCH MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
Upon his arrival he immediately began dismantling the existing church management structure.

Olive Tree Parish is a big church with over 30 departments. To facilitate effective management and communication between the pastor and these departments, previous leadership shortened the pastors span of control by clustering the 30 departments into about 12 directorates, headed by directorate heads overseeing the heads of departments while in turn reporting to the provincial pastor. The rationale here, is that it is easier and more realistic for the provincial pastor to work directly with 12 directorate heads instead of 30 department heads. Being a control freak, Pastor Ayanru was unsatisfied with the structure, and therefore proceeded to dismantle it, preferring to deal with heads of departments.

However, as it turns out, it was a decoy to allow him upstage ministers he met on arrival (whom he felt he could not control) and install some ministers that followed from his previous parish, in their stead. A notable example is the Sunday School Department where a seasoned existing minister (Pastor Kunle Osibodu) was removed and replaced by a minister from his previous church, Pastor Frank Aigbogun.
Systematically, he swept aside all the senior ministers who were serving as Directorate Heads without any formal one on one discussions with the affected ministers.

QUESTIONABLE FINANCIAL INTEGRITY
Prior to his arrival, Olive Tree Parish had a financial management structure that appointed 4 signatories to church accounts. All previous Pastors in Charge and Provincial Pastors have always maintained the above financial structure and were not signatories in order to ensure integrity and avoid conflicts of interest.

Pastor Ayanru however, removed all signatories preceding his arrival and installed himself as the sole signatory to all church accounts, replacing transparency with opaqueness, with respect to all financial transactions.

You would wonder, why an experienced pastor like Ayanru, who is also a lawyer by trade, would make these decisions which call his integrity into question. The answer lies in what he has done with regards to church finances and procurement practices. He has shown total disregard and contempt for the existing procurement guidelines and policy. A case in point is his purchase of office furniture single-handedly. This fell outside the procurement policy which would have precluded his participation from the procurement transaction since he is the recipient of the furniture.

A second and more troubling example of his financial recklessness is his decision to abandon the existing onsite provincial office built by his excellency Pastor Prof Yemi Osinbajo and rent and furnish a new office in Ikoyi at an exorbitant cost in a transaction handled from start to finish by himself alone, again operating outside the procurement policy framework.

Apart from this being a classic conflict of interest case, the new office in Ikoyi is smaller that the onsite office he abandoned, there is no parking space for staff and visitors, and staff must park on the Olive Tree Parish premises and then commute by church bus to the Ikoyi office. Interestingly though, Pastor Ayanru spends more time at his Olive Tree office than in the acquired Ikoyi office. You have to wonder how this makes sense, given the colossal waste of money involved, and the inefficiencies described. Perhaps the answer lies in the allegation that he is allegedly using that office as a law office for his private practice.

Pastor Ayanru has access to several service providers that he engages to provide services to the church without competitive bidding or any other form of recourse to the procurement policy and its guidelines. To facilitate his financial conduct described above, he has engaged the accountant in his former Parish to serve as the provincial accountant.

To appreciate how reprehensible the financial misconduct described above is, Pastor Ayanru is wasting scare financial resources on grandiose and needless expenses when Olive Tree Parish has an undeveloped property 100 or so meters away from the main parish. The undeveloped property was intended to be a Christian Resource Centre over 14 years ago and as such should in theory be the key priority for Olive Tree Parish and the Province.

DESTROYING EXCELLENCE TO SATISFY HIS WHIMS AND CAPRICES
Pastor Ayanru met an Olive Tree Parish blessed by committed ministers and professionals. However, in his megalomaniacal desire to control and entrench his preferences instead of upholding RCCG’s doctrine, he has systematically destroyed areas of the church. Another recent example is his vindictive demolition of the marriage counselling and family affairs directorate, purely motivated by the fact that the two most senior ministers in the directorate stood up to him when he asked them to act contrary to the guidelines and framework of the RCCG mission.
In doing so, he has replaced two ministers who are qualified and trained marriage counsellors, with a minister who though seasoned, nonetheless has no formal marriage counselling training and qualifications. This is the extent to which Pastor Ayanru is prepared to go to have things done “his way”.

CONSEQUENCES OF TYRANNICAL LEADERSHIP
As a consequence of the actions of Pastor Ayanru, Parishioners are leaving Olive Tree Parish.

Ministers who he tried to force into new roles with no prior discussion with them on his intention to give them new appointments, declined said appointments. Some others have resigned altogether.

By refusing to deal decisively with his equally high-handed Parish Church Administrator, Pastor Ojuolape Abolarin, who daily terrorises church office staff. The church now has a situation where the church office staff are traumatised, disengaged and are afraid to come to work. This has already led to some resignations.

There is widespread disaffection amongst Pastors within Lagos Province 48 which Pastor Ayanru oversees. For those remaining at Olive Tree Parish, Pastor Ayanru has created an “Us” versus “Them” atmosphere between the congregation that he met on arrival and his cronies he brought from his former parish.

Olive Tree Parish once a beacon of excellence within The Favoured Family is on the verge of destruction unless the RCCG hierarchy intervenes.
Since you choose to stand behind the “touch not my anointed” line, then you should also be prepared to address the warrant that concerns you
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by Lamasta(m):
Does this forum look like the regional headquarters of RCCG that you bring matters like this tohuh
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by 87EightySeven(f): 8:04pm On Feb 22
That one naa una problem.
Not interested until you people exchange blows, that's when I'll take you people seriously
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by drake2(m): 8:43pm On Feb 22
I am very familiar with this person or persons complaining. They petitioned and framed me up out of very good and well paying jobs twice.

When you are not their tribe but working so hard to bring changes and improvements to systems; they will frame you up and manufacture lies about you.

I dread working with them; very distracting and energy draining persons.

Leave the pastor alone!
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by CHIEFCHICKEN: 10:09pm On Feb 22
MemoriesAndMe:
This is all biased statements from a disgruntled church member.
Why not post this in your church internal memo or whatshap group? Why nairaland? Does everyone here attend your church?
Nonsense.
The church is actually a public organization.
So he's right if he posts it here
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by CHIEFCHICKEN: 10:10pm On Feb 22
drake2:
I am very familiar with this person or persons complaining. They petitioned and framed me up out of very good and well paying jobs twice.

When you are not their tribe but working so hard to bring changes and improvements to systems; they will frame you up and manufacture lies about you.

I dread working with them; very distracting and energy draining persons.

Leave the pastor alone!
They framed you up?
Care to share...
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by IkeIgboNiile(m): 11:13pm On Feb 22
This tribalist Church and their wahala again. This is why i hate one business Church because their stooges don't know how to handle power.
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by Newsmills: 12:07am On Feb 23
This is not a church but religious business school for people to study advanced church business models,heaven entrepreneurship,church financial management,the writer has never mentioned anything concerning spirit leading All I can understand signatory to so and so account and stuffs like that
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by MemoriesAndMe: 12:55am On Feb 23
CHIEFCHICKEN:
The church is actually a public organization.
So he's right if he posts it here
Not when everything sounds like his personal opinion about the said pastor. Who knows if he has personal grudges with him? All the post said wereall negative comments about another person no one else but him and may be his church members know.

So how does anyone on this platform fact check people they don't know? Based on what one random and bitter person said on nairaland?

If the allegations are true, then report it to the authorities and it makes the news that can be quoted as a source, not word of mouth from one random person.
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by CHIEFCHICKEN: 1:01am On Feb 23
MemoriesAndMe:
Not when everything sounds like his personal opinion about the said pastor. Who knows if he has personal grudges with him? All the post said wereall negative comments about another person no one else but him and may be his church members know.

So how does anyone on this platform fact check people they don't know? Based on what one random and bitter person said on nairaland?

If the allegations are true, then report it to the authorities and it makes the news that can be quoted as a source, not word of mouth from one random person.
That's where you are getting it wrong. Do you expect him to Concoct positive things about the pastor when there is no?
The pastor too should come here and clear himself angry
That's the only way we will know if the allegations arent true
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by michlins(m): 3:58am On Feb 23
Explain to me how these people will be able to live in heaven with all these type of attitude
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by Countersam(m): 5:08am On Feb 23
Sounds more like company business matters and not church.
What do you want us to do now?
Wetin concern Christ with church finance or office?
A good shepherd has been replaced with good politicians....

Judgement will start with you people. Kontinu!
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by Countersam(m): 5:12am On Feb 23
Elzazzi:
EFCC chairman na Redeem Pastor

Remi Tinubu na Redeem Pastor

Osinbajo Redeem Pastor

That Isaac guy wey be APC youth leader na Redeem Pastor. You can name the rests.

So you can imagine the internal politics wey go Dey go inside the church.
And one has to wonder who the role model of these pastors are.... Surely not disciples of Christ, if politics is more important than truly serving God.
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by Jayboi(m): 5:50am On Feb 23
When members bring church matters online, you know they want to embarrass the existing structure.
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by Rollingdollar: 10:39am On Feb 23
Is unfortunate RCCG has been infiltrated by different kind of soul which their mission dnt actually align with the church mission and these set of peoples, some are already in position of decisions making. Derailing the whole mission of the church. Daddy G.O should do the needful
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by Lamasta(m): 12:45pm On Feb 23
CHIEFCHICKEN:
The church is actually a public organization.
So he's right if he posts it here
Right as how? Does this forum looks like conflict resolution panel to you, when you see them gang up against the pastor that shows that the pastor in indeed bringing change that don't sit well with those members....
Re: Crisis In Rccg Olive Tree Parish (ikoyi) by DavidEsq(m): 3:16pm On Feb 23
Sangoamadioha1:
Is this a church you are talking about or a government ministry huh Everything said here is not about spreading the word of God but just clashes of over bloated egos.
Make una name am what it really is, a social club where you guys go to every Sunday morning 🫤
Very correct!
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