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Like Pastor Adeboye, Another Popular General Overseer Loses Son
Like Pastor Adeboye, another Popular General Overseer has lost his son.
Newsone reports that a Popular General Overseer of Faith Mission International (GOFAMINT), Pastor Elijah Abina, lost his 53-year-old son, Pastor Emmanuel Folorunso Abina, on Wednesday, April 28, eight days before the Adeboyes’ bereavement.
This online news platform understands that the development is coming at a time the Nigerian Pentecostal family mourns Pastor Dare Adeboye, son of he General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E.A. Adeboye, who passed on last Thursday.
Newsone reports that Emmanuel was appointed into GOFAMINT Executive Council for a three-year term this January.
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Statement about the death of the Popular General Overseer son
A statement by the church announcing the demise, signed by GOFAMINT General Secretary, Pastor S.O. Omowumi, said: “With heavy heart but in total submission to the sovereignty of the Supreme God, we announce the passing onto glory of our brother, our pastor and a member of the Executive Council of The Gospel Faith Mission International (GO[1]FAMINT), Pastor Emmanuel Folorunso Abina, on Wednesday, 28th April, 2021.“Gone too soon but we praise the Almighty God for the life Pastor Folorunso lived and the indelible impact he made in the church, particu[1]larly among the youth.
“May the Lord Jesus Christ comfort our General Over[1]seer, the immediate and ex[1]tended family as well as the church”. Meanwhile, a commendation service for Dare Adeboye will be held in Eket where he was Regional Pastor today. The deceased was the “miracle child” and the second biological son of Pastor Adeboye. He was his father’s look alike.
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Newsone reports that a statement released by the family, the body of the decceased, lying cold in the morgue of Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, will be taken in a motorcade to the Redemption Camp—-the city which was created by his 79- old-father—-where Pastor D, as he was fondly called, will finally rest in the vault there.
