Welcome to the City of David! A place where the love of God reigns, where dreams come true, where legends are born, and tomorrow's history is experienced today. This is a love-based interdenominational Church with a foundational commission to Love God, and express God’s love to all men until they BECOME disciples who express the fullness that God commissioned for them from the foundations of the earth.
The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) is a holiness pentecostal megachurch and denomination headquartered in Ebute Metta, Lagos, Nigeria. It is an international church structured in different areas throughout the world, with local churches grouped into regions. Currently, there are 59 regions in Nigeria after the 2024 Annual Convention of the church, held in August.
A Brief History of RCCG
The RCCG was founded in 1952 by Rev. Josiah Akindayomi. After his death in 1980, Pastor E.A. Adeboye assumed leadership. Adeboye, a mathematics lecturer at the University of Lagos, had joined the church in 1973 and was initially Akindayomi's Yoruba-to-English interpreter. He was ordained a pastor in 1975. In 1981, his appointment as the General Overseer was formalized by the posthumous reading of Akindayomi's sealed pronouncement.
Our core principles are service to God and witness to all men (Acts 1:8). We seek to expand the kingdom of God and liberate as many from the holds of darkness until they become full in God.
Vision Statement: We are a highly innovative Church with a vision of making disciples, and raising leaders.
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Programs and Services
The City of David offers a variety of services designed to meet different needs:
- Sundays:
- Sunrise Service: 7.30 am
- Sunshine Service: 10:30 am
- Thanksgiving Service (1st Sunday): 8.00am
- Tuesdays:
- Digging For Gold: 6:00 pm
- Communion Service (1st Tuesday): 6.00pm
- Wednesdays
- Thursdays
- Fridays
- Saturdays
Notable special spiritual programs include the "Holy Ghost Service", which holds on the first Friday of every month in Nigeria.
Connecting and Growing
The church provides numerous avenues for members to connect, grow, and thrive:
- Young Adults
- Teenagers
- Men's Fellowship
- Women's Fellowship
All of you, TOGETHER, are the one body of Christ, and each one of you is a separate and necessary part of it. 1st Corinthians 12:27 (TLB)
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Archaeological Significance
The City of David holds significant archaeological importance, enriching our understanding of biblical history.
Indeed, one of the noteworthy products of excavation in Jerusalem, commonly called the Tower of David, excavated by archaeologist R.A.S. Macalister in the 1920s, bears a title that can easily mislead. Although the tower's name associates the structure with Israel's most famous monarch, in fact only the lower courses of the tower are from the Davidic period.
In 1961 her excavation exposed a part of the Jebusite wall that surrounded Jerusalem when David took the city near the end of the 11th century B.C.
Relevant to this same episode, another discovery numerous archaeologists have examined has supported fascinating speculation about the account of Joab's stealthy entry into Jebusite Jerusalem. The event, related in 2 Samuel 5, occurred near the beginning of David's reign over all 12 Israelite tribes. David had offered to reward the man who took Jerusalem by appointing him leader over Israel's army. This reference quite possibly describes a subterranean Jebusite water shaft discovered in 1867 by Englishman Capt. Charles Warren.
Another major feature, not to mention popular tourist attraction, beneath the City of David is Hezekiah's Tunnel. This underground channel is associated with the reign of Judah's 8th-century (B.C.) king and religious reformer Hezekiah (2 Kings 20:20; 2 Chronicles 32:2-4). Edward Robinson was the first man in modern times to explore it.
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The serpentine tunnel itself runs from the intermittent Gihon Spring, just outside the northeast wall of the City of David, and winds some 1,750 feet before resurfacing at the Pool of Siloam. Evidently Hezekiah's workmen constructed this engineering marvel by tunneling from opposite ends and meeting near the middle.
The above examples identify only some of the significant archaeological discoveries scientists have unearthed in or near the City of David. Christians can be grateful for the evidence archaeological excavation provides. It inspires faith in the infallible Word of God.
Let's help you take your next steps in Christ Jesus.
David & Archaeology: The City of David
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