Below are some interesting things you will like to know about Anita Oyakhilome: continue...
1. Anita is a pioneer member of
the ministry:
She was among those who started the
ministry which used to be a campus fellowship, known as Believer’s Love World
Fellowship, BLW (now Believers’ LoveWorld Inc.) at Ambrose Alli University,
Ekpoma in Edo State.
2. She met her husband, Pst
Chris, at the University:
She reportedly became a born-again
Christian at the BLW Campus Fellowship, where Chris was still a pastor in the
late 1980s.
3. She got married to Pastor
Chris Oyakilome in 1991:
They got married 23 years ago in
Lagos and their union is blessed with two daughters, Sharon and Charlyn.
Chris and Anita’s wedding photo
4. Anita is a gifted writer:
Besides the ministry’s daily
devotional, Rhapsody of Realities, which is now in over 250 languages all over
the world, Anita has written many Christian books with her husband like: Don’t
Pack Your Bags Yet, Confession For living, a Handbook For Successful Living,
Unending Springs of Joy, and many more.
5. Pastor Anita is a member of
the Central Executive Council:
The Central Executive Council is the
governing body-of the ministry. She is also a registered trustee of BLW in the
UK and most likely in Nigeria.
6. She is a half cast:
Anita has dual citizenship, born of
a Nigerian father, Mr. John U. Ebhodaghe, OFR, former MD/CEO of Nigerian
Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), and a Swiss mother. She is the first
daughter in a family of five.
7. She has an impeccable dress
sense:
She does not joke with her
appearance as she has severally been adjudged by many as one of the best
dressed Nigerian woman.
8. She was the Director of Christ
Embassy International Office:
Anita used to head the church in the
United Kingdom and also oversees other churches there and beyond.
9. Anita only visits Nigeria
twice in a year:
Before the marital crisis, she was
living apart from her husband in the UK with her children, over-seeing the
church there. She only visits Nigeria during BLW’s annual PPCF which holds in
the Lagos Mother church and December 7, her estranged husband’s birthday.
10. She is a graduate of English Language from Ambrose Alli
University,formerly Edo State University, Ekpoma.
News of the divorce between Pastor
Chris and Anita Oyakhilome surfaced on August 29. Rev. Anita had filed a divorce suit at a UK court to end
their 20-year-old marriage. She said through her lawyers that she is done with Pastor Chris and there’s no hope of reconciliation.
Pastor Chris who finally spoke on the divorce suit, on the
evening of Sunday, September 7, during the monthly global communion service of
the church, said it is not biblical to divorce, but if his wife insists on it,
he could consider it as an option.
Meanwhile, Catholic Archbishop
Emeritus of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie condemned the divorce crisis which he
described as ‘disturbing’.
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