The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has told of the grinding poverty he was born into.
Adeboye made this revelation on Facebook in a sermon of his.
He said, his parents’ poverty was so gargantuan to that of others in the same boat, that he was nicknamed, poor, adding that flowing from their (his parents’) situation, for eighteen years he had no shoes to wear.
His word, “Some of you who know a little bit about my background, you know when they talk about people coming from a rocky background, that means from a background of hardship. My own rocky background was a rock among the rocks. My father was so poor, (that) poor people called him poor. The elders have a saying when there is a hardship for the husband, and hardship for the wife, there must be a hardship for the children.
“The hardship rubbed off on me. For the first 18 years of my life, I had no shoes. My father was so poor. The day he bought an umbrella, we were rejoicing, but look at me today, look at what Jesus can do, He can change the poor to the rich; change the unknown to the known.”
