Redemption Camp

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The Redemption City formerly known as Redemption Camp is the camp ground and international headquarters of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), a Pentecostal Evangelical mega church in Mowe, Ogun State of Nigeria. [1] It has the geographical coordinates of longitude 3.3958 and latitude 6.4531. [2] The postal code (postcode) of the RCCG Camp is 110115. [3]

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The facility opened in 1983 and has since expanded to over 2500 hectares. [4] The entire RCCG camp site (over 2,500Ha) is owned by RCCG Mission, with certificate of Occupancy number 23876 issued by the Ogun State Government of Nigeria on 4 August 1998. [5]

The Redemption City has over 5,000 houses, roads, rubbish collection, police station, hospital, supermarkets, banks, a fun fair, a post office, schools, printing press, Redeemed Bible College, a power plant. [6] [7] As at 2018, there were about 12,000 people living within the Redemption City. [8]

As at March 2023, it is now estimated that the Redemption City has about 200,000 inhabitants. [9]

Front view of redemption camp Redemption Camp.jpg
Front view of redemption camp

History

Speaking at the Nigerian Independence Day service on 1 October 2017, at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) international headquarters in Ebute Meta, Lagos, the General Overseer of the Church, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, shared the testimony of how the Church bought the land for the Camp.[ citation needed ]

According to him, he refused to borrow money for the land they originally intended to buy at Iju, Lagos, which was then worth N54,000, even though he didn't even have N54 at that time. Instead, he held on to his faith, which eventually paid off.[ citation needed ]

In his words, "When this place (Ebute-meta) became too small, I asked my elders to look for a bigger space. So, they eventually saw some land around Iju for N54,000. Funny enough, I was not even having even N54 at that time. My elders were angry with me because I refused to borrow. In fact, if our church was the kind where they vote, I’d have been impeached because I told them I was not going to borrow."[ citation needed ]

"A few days later, a member was going to Ibadan from Lagos and he saw the land and called that the people were ready to accept N6,000. I told him not to even negotiate, and we quickly paid for it. That is our Redemption Camp today." [10]

On Tuesday 9 August, 2022, the general overseer of the church Pastor E A Adeboye renamed the Redemption Camp as Redemption City.



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  2. ↑ DistancesFrom.com (12 January 2021). "redemption camp latitude and longitude". DistancesFrom.com. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  3. ↑ nigeriapostalcodes.com (15 April 2021). "Obafemi Owode Zip Codes / Post Codes » Ogun State". nigeriapostalcodes.com. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "Redemption city is the anti-Lagos". The Economist.
  5. ↑ FAMILY HOMES FUNDS LIMITED (FHFL) AND REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD (RCCG) (23 December 2020). "ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (ESIA) FOR THE GREEN PASTURES HOUSING ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, WITHIN THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD (RCCG), REDEEMED CAMP, OGUN STATE, NIGERIA". African Development Bank. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
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  7. ↑ "Redemption Camp: A Nigerian megachurch builds its own city". 18 September 2017.
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