Winners' Chapel
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Winners' Chapel (also known as Living Faith Church) is a megachurch founded by Bishop David Oyedepo on May 2, 1981 in Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria. It has branches in over 50 countries all over the world; in Nigeria alone, it has more than 400 local branches. The church teaches the importance of faith and that both divine healing and material prosperity are benefits of submission to God's will.
The international headquarters of Winners Chapel is called Faith-Tabernacle. It is built inside a 5,000 acre church complex called Canaanland, in Ota, a suburb of Lagos. Faith Tabernacle is the largest church building in the world, with a sitting capacity of 50,000 people and an outside overflow capacity of over 250,000. Other properties inside Canaanland include Covenant University.
Winners' Chapel also runs a chain of Secondary and Primary schools in Nigeria. It also has its own Bible School, called Word of Faith Bible Institute (WOFBI); this is the biggest such group in Nigeria with branches in over 30 countries worldwide. Other assets of the Church includes two aircraft and a fleet of over 350 buses that convey worshipers to and fro Faith-Tabernacle, Canaanland. The Church also owns Dominion Publishing House, which turns out books and other materials written by Oyedepo. An arm of the Ministry World Mission Agency(WMA) provides welfare and other health and humanitarian services to the needy in the society.
Every December, Winners' Chapel holds its annual Prophetic gathering, called Shiloh. At the 2007 Shiloh festival, Oyedepo announced that the church has started the construction of six new universities spread across Africa.
