- A former Winners Chapel pastor who served between 2019 and 2021 has laid bare the struggles he endured within the ministry.
- Opening up about his turbulent journey, he detailed the hardships he faced while serving under the Bishop David Oyedepo-led commission and the breaking point that forced him to walk away.
Victor O. Chukwuka, former cleric, has laid bare the struggles of pastoring under Bishop David Oyedepo’s Winners Chapel.
In an interview with content creator Lucky Udu, Victor lamented how pastors silently suffer, forced to beg for as little as N1,000 to survive, while church members assume they are well-off. He recounted a heartbreaking story of a fellow pastor who died from an untreated ulcer simply because he lacked money for treatment.
According to him, desperation and hunger drive some pastors to deceive their congregations just to make ends meet.
Victor, who once believed he was called by God, joined Winners Chapel in 2019 and was sent to Kaduna after his ordination.
However, what awaited him was a deeply distressing experience, one, according to him, ultimately pushed him to walk away from the pulpit.
Victor revealed that he resigned from Winners Chapel in 2021 after growing the congregation of the village church he was assigned to 200 members.
Reflecting on when frustration took hold, he admitted that people often place pastors on a pedestal, assuming they have everything figured out. This illusion, he said, made their struggles even heavier to bear.
On what extinguished his fire for God, Victor pointed to what he described as a church filled with love in words but hatred in reality. He said the hypocrisy ran deep.
He added that he left Winners Chapel in 2021, drawn by the charisma of a wealthy preacher. However, beneath the surface, the luxury he admired was nothing more than a facade.
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