Pastor Chris Oyakhilome was born on the 7th of December 1973 in Edo, Nigeria to Mr and Mrs Tim Oyakhilome. He us the eldest son of his family<\/p>\n
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After his primary and secondary education, he is a graduate of Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria where he obtained a BSc in Architecture and an honorary Doctor of Science award. He also has an honorary doctorate in divinity from the Benson Idahosa University.<\/p>\n
He went into ministry while he was still a student at AAU. His ministry initially started as Youths for Christ (YFC) before it turned to \u00a0Believers\u2019 LoveWorld Fellowship, which is now Believers LoveWorld Incorporated was known as Youths For Christ (YFC).<\/p>\n
YFC grew and became the largest fellowship on campus. In 1989, Pastor Chris established Believers LoveWorld Incorporated (BLW), alongside Christ Embassy. The church has its headquarters in Lagos. Believer\u2019s LoveWorld is now a global ministry with millions of followers and associates all around the world.<\/p>\n
Oyakhilome’s ministry holds meetings in the United Kingdom and the United States, and has “healing school” sessions in South Africa, Lagos and Canada. He was also the first to pioneer a Christian-based television network from Africa to the rest of the world. He also held the largest single night event held in Nigeria in 2005 with 3.5 million people in attendance “Good Friday Miracle Night”.yakhilome also hosts Higher Life conferences in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, UK, US and Canada, and organized the Night of Bliss South Africa event at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. Oyakhilome also operates an International School of Ministry, which held one of its Ministers’ Network Conferences in 2016 with 5,000 ministers in attendance from 145 countries, in Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n
Oyakhilome runs an online prayer network using social media to send messages to Christians all over the world. He had over 1.2 million followers on Twitter in 2013, over 1.9 million followers on Facebook, and operates a smartphone messenger called KingsChat. He is also the author of the world number one daily devotional “Rhapsody of Realities”. In 2015, Oyakhilome was given an honorary doctorate from Ambrose Alli University andd Benson Idahosa University. In 2017, Oyakhilome, in partnership with Benny Hinn, created the Christian cable channel LoveWorld USA.<\/p>\n
Pastor Chris also pioneered the establishment of the Inner City Mission of Christ Embassy, a ministry to children living in the inner cities of our world, to give them a hope and a future.<\/p>\n
Chris is also the host of \u201cAtmosphere for Miracles\u201d, a programme airing on major television networks in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Asia, Europe and around the world, which brings God\u2019s divine presence right into the homes of millions around the world.<\/p>\n
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Pastor Chris\u2019s Ministry is in four arms: healing ministry, publishing ministry, television ministry and teaching ministry. It is from these ministries that he culled out the healing school, atmosphere for miracles, and the Pastor Chris live global prayer network.<\/p>\n
Inner City Mission Project is being operated by him, this foundation \u00a0works to assist orphaned and indigent children in inner cities in several countries. The organisation is under the auspices of the Chris Oyahkilome Foundation, which works to help the poor and those in the inner cities. They send relief materials to countries when disasters strike and work with government parastatals to improve social wellbeing.<\/p>\n
The Chris Oyakhilome Foundation is one of the major sponsors of the inner city orphanage homes in Africa managed by pushaboo, an organisation spearheading the care of mothers and babies around the world.<\/p>\n
Other agencies supported by Chris Oyakhilome Foundation International (COFI) are the Volunteer Medical Corps, Trauma Care International Foundation, InnerCity Mission for Children, Future Africa Leaders Foundation and the Bible for All Mission.<\/p>\n
He got married to Anita Ebhodaghe in 1991. They had two daughters. Anita Ebodaghe filed for divorce on 9 April 2014 at the Central Family Court in London and later divorced in February 2016 after 25 years of marriage on the basis of “Unreasonable Behavior the separation, they also decided to share custody of their two children; Sharon and Charlyn<\/p>\n
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In 2011, Forbes estimated Oyakhilome’s personal wealth as between $30 million and $50 million.<\/p>\n
He is the author of Rhapsody of Realities, distributed monthly in several countries.These are some of his other books and the year produced.<\/p>\n