Fire: Oyakhilome vows to build bigger church

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The President and founder of LoveWorld Incorporated, better known as Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, has vowed to build a bigger church headquarters in place of the one destroyed by fire on Sunday morning.

Speaking during a live Sunday service at the church’s campground in Asese, Ogun State, the famous televangelist said the fire incident at the church’s headquarters was not an accident but an avenue for bigger and better things.

The church headquarters, located in the Oregun area of Ikeja, Lagos State, caught fire on Sunday morning.

This was revealed in multiple videos from the scene shared on X.com on Sunday.

Oyakhilome said, “Nothing happens in the life of a child of God by accident. During the 2001 Ikeja Cantonment bombing incident, the building vibrated so much and we thought it was going to collapse.

“I thought to myself that if it collapsed, I was going to build a bigger, better one. At the end of the day, it didn’t collapse and we called the engineers to see if there was any need to bring it down and rebuild but it was still okay.

“Now that this has happened, we will build a bigger, better, and more glorious one and the devil will lick his wound.”

Officials of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service are also said to be at the scene to salvage the situation.

Sharing a video from the location, Augustine, tweeting as Chief_Augustin1 on X.com, wrote, “Christ Embassy Church on Billings Way, Oregun, is on fire.

“Serious fire is raging, and men of the Lagos State Fire Service are working hard to put it off. Thank God service hasn’t commenced fully.”

Fire broke out on Sunday morning at the headquarters of the Christ Embassy Church in Lagos.

The fire raged through the main auditorium of the Christ Embassy Church, located on Billings Way, Ikeja, Lagos.

It reportedly started at 6am from a detached structure housing some 14 power generating sets, one of which allegedly burst into flames due to a power surge.

Upon noticing the conflagration, church members struggled to put it off with their in-house extinguishers.

However, the fire spread to the church’s main auditorium.

The General Manager of the Lagos State Emergency Agency, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke Osanyintolu said: “There is no casualty, but one of the fire service men sustained injury. The church lost a number of power generating sets and other property.”

Director of Fire Service, Mr. Rasaq Fadipe, said that the fire raged for about three hours before it was finally put out by the emergency agencies.

Fadipe narrated: “It was a very serious fire outbreak. The fire involved the generator house. A lot of armoured cables were also affected by the inferno. They have about 14 big generators that were affected and the church’s stationary diesel and petrol tanks.”

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