The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye and his wife, Pastor Mrs. Foluke Adeboye, have unveiled a new prayer mountain named Mount Carmel Prayer Mountain, at his hometown located at Ifewara, Osun State.
Prominent among the features of the new prayer mountain are; A magnificent mix of sanctuaries, dormitories, halls, restaurant, bookshop, super market, chalets and numerous prayer huts flowing down the slope of a hill, stationed between bigger residential facility.
The pastor’s wife explained that they’ve had the land for years with hope of erecting a prayer mountain on it which they commenced some seven years ago.
According to her, she asked Adeboye “Who is going to help you build it?” And Pastor Adeboye answered: “God, but you will be following His leading to do it.”
She revealed how an architect volunteered to design the facility, and before they knew it, engineers and other workers erected the mountain.
Mrs Adeboye said, “We had been inspired to build a prayer mountain by what we saw in South Korea in 1985. We went for David Yonggi Cho’s prayer conference and one afternoon, he took delegates to their prayer mountain, which we admired so much.
“But then, we said, ‘God, this is South Korea. We travelled almost a whole day to get here. How can we have something like this in Nigeria?’ And since 1985, we had it in our minds that one day, there would be a prayer mountain of a similar status in Nigeria,” she said.
“We named this Mount Carmel after the Mount Carmel where Prophet Elijah defeated the work of the devil. We also remembered the Mount of Transfiguration.”
Adding to his wife’s narration, Pastor Adeboye said: “When we returned from South Korea in 1985, we decided, by the grace of God, that there would be a prayer mountain in Nigeria that people from all over the world would come to pray.
“They consulted and later bought the land but the challenges were much. But what I had discussed with God about the prayer mountain remained burning in my heart. The way I had planned it, the place should have been built many years ago, but in the face of the enormous challenges, we resorted to building a place called “Halleluyah House” at the Redemption Camp.
“Yet the passion for the prayer mountain was still burning in my heart. I believed that by the time I was 60 years old, we would have built it, but it was not possible. When I was getting to 70 years old, I remembered that every year after 70 years of a man on earth is extra time,” he continued.
“To ensure that the dream would not die, and efforts that had been made would not be fruitless, I called my wife and gave her the responsibility to build this prayer mountain.”
