Article written by Florence Amagiya for
Vanguard. You want to paint
him as a great guy and you mention he has N400million fleet of cars and
that he has other choice properties in the US worth millions of dollars?
Lol. Read below..
Human
beings are not naturally known to always give without thinking of what
they would get in return. So it is worthy of note when a man gives so
much without asking for anything in return.
Rev.
Chris Okotie may not have a stunning personality to some Nigerians, but
he has endeared himself to many particularly those who got a helping
hand when it mattered to them. He shows love to all and occasionally dishes out different gift items.
Recently,
on his birthday when others would sit back to welcome and collect
birthday gifts in multitude; he chose to dedicate the day giving to
people household items, satisfying the material needs of people. In this
edition, we bring you an icon that is always ready to share…
Enjoy..
No
doubt, the ageless multi award winning pop Musician, Chris Okotie; now
known as Rev. Chris Okotie is a very wealthy man; who loves seeing the
faces of people light up whenever he gives.
He doesn’t need any
introduction to Nigerians as his album ‘I need someone’ brought him to
limelight in the 80′s. It would also be recalled that Pastor Chris left
singing secular songs for gospel songs more than 30 years ago; after he
repented.
Today,
he writes gospel songs and he sings to worship God. It is also worthy
of note that Rev. Chris is also a writer as he wrote the best selling
book titled “The last outcast” which was a sell out. Pastor doesn’t have
a choir in his church yet awesome songs are produced by him as the
choir master and his church as his choir.
Rev. Chris was born on
June 16, 1959. He is an Urhobo from Abraka in Ethiope East Local
Government Area of Delta State. He is the founder and senior pastor of
Household of God Church; a church located in Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos state
since 1987. He is a law graduate from the University of Nigeria, Enugu
campus.
PROPERTIES
The church auditorium,
including the children’s department, the car parks and its extensive
fallow land is worth billions of naira. He has other choice properties
in the United State of America worth millions of dollars.
The
church auditorium is a beautiful, large edifice, built to house more
than 2000 people or more. Although, Household of God Church is not as
crowded like people would have expected it to be, but they have the
ability and movement of a batallion as Rev. Chris would always say that
“God doesn’t work with the crowd, but with selected few who are ready to
work in the his vineyard”.
INVESTMENTS
Rev.
Chris Okotie believes strongly in investing in the lives of people; he
is described by all who has made contact with him as an intense giver.
He also believes that “God who has called him would take care of him”.
So
he doesn’t believe in any investment except in the service of God and
humanity. But even at that; he is arguably one of the richest pastors in
Nigeria; as he collects very expensive wrist watches, wears expensive
suits, ties, perfumes and shoes.
Rev.Chris spoke extensively on
this very issue in one of his sermons. According to him ” working in
line with God’s will and direction for my life has made me buy more
expensive cars and wear more expensive clothes than most of my
colleagues”.
CHARITY
Pastor Chris spends a
lot of money on charity as he is enjoys giving. He jokingly told the
church on one of such Sundays that he spends over two hundred and fifty
thousand naira each Sunday buying gifts for people.
The Yuletide
seasons are not left out as he spends millions through the church making
Christmas season beautiful for the less privilege in the Society.
Pastor
and the church has a yearly grace programme; on the programme they
organise an award event known as Karis award for people who did amazing
things in their field of specialty.
CARS
He
is an unrepentant car freak; as his cars are estimated to be over
N400m. He has cars such as BMW, to exotic models of Range Rover and
Mercedes Benz. Recently, he added a Rolls Royce Phantom, 2014 edition to
the fleet in his garage which cost him a whooping sum of N80m. That was
to be a personal gift to celebrate his 27 years on the pulpit and 30
years as a born again Christian.
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