THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD
HEAVEN'S GLORIOUS EMBASSY, INC.
JOURNEY SO FAR:

The first step that Pastor E.A. Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, took in 1988 towards the expansion of the church was to create what he called “Model Parishes”. Each model parish was to encourage the young educated, the unchurched, young executives, all and sundry, to feel free to come to church “just as they were”, and in their own neighborhoods. Contrary to expectations at the time, they did flock into the church by the hundreds.

The first “Model Parish”, established in a high- brow area of Ikeja of Lagos State, Nigeria, grew very rapidly. Ten years later, many of those who had become “Workers”, “Ministers” and Pastors or Assistant Pastor in that church were Bankers, Professors, Lawyers, Engineers, Medical Doctors, Entrepreneurs, and other successful professionals from all walks of life. Among them was a group of young professionals working for various oil companies, and they discovered that they were often in Dallas, Texas, for projects that sometimes lasted anywhere from two weeks to two years at a time. They requested that the church should start a parish in Dallas, Texas because they did not want to be cut off from the peculiar mode of worship of the church while away from Nigeria. The Pastor of the Model parish in Ikeja at the time , Pastor Ayo Adeloye, having consulted with the General Overseer, therefore came to Dallas, Texas, in October 1994 and started a small fellowship with twelve of these professionals who were then in Dallas. Pastor Ayo Adeloye registered the business name (The Redeemed Christian Church of God), and returned to Nigeria at the end of October, 1994.

One of the members of the Ikeja Model Parish was Dr. Ajibike Akinkoye, former lecturer of Modern European Languages at the University of Ibadan who had become the Cofounder and CEO of a flourishing group of corporations in Lagos was blessed with international opportunities.

It was in the midst of the business expansions that Dr. Akinkoye was pursuing that he received a call from Pastor Adeloye, to come and oversee the new fellowship in Dallas until a substantive Pastor could be appointed. He was available because of the relatively flexible nature of his business schedules. Pastor Akinkoye arrived in Dallas, Texas, on November 4, 1994.

Using the methods and facilities he knew, Pastor Akinkoye held his first crusade on December 4, 1994, exactly one month after he arrived in Dallas. In the middle of the program he heard the voice of God telling him, “You are not going to build a mega-church yet. You are going to plant little parishes around the Dallas metroplex, and then I will give you a camp...” He kept this strange communication to himself until the General Overseer visited Dallas in 1995 to dedicate the young church. When he mentioned it to Pastor Adeboye, the latter smiled, nodded and told him, “You heard right. The Lord told me about ten years ago, years before we had any parish in North America, while I was on one of my trips to the Kenneth Hagin Camp Meeting, that he would one day give us a camp ground in Dallas.” The rest is now history. Today there is the Redemption Camp and more than twenty – five parishes that have come from that single parish.

After a long search for a permanent location, the Lord miraculously provided the church now known as Heavens Glorious Embassy (HGE) with 11.8 acres of land in the high- brow Plano area of the Dallas Metroplex. . When the tenth year anniversary was celebrated there was much to be grateful for and after four more years (14th Anniversary),there is a whole lot more to be grateful for; the promotions, cars, homes, births, a new church and life as a whole. In May 2005 the General Overseers, Pastor E.A. Adeboye sent Pastor John E. Omewah and his family to Dallas to take over from Pastors A. Akinkoye, who had been given an international assignment under the Redeemed Christian Church of God. Pastor John Omewah who had previously had the opportunity to be Pastor of four RCCG parishes including Eagle’s Wings Chapel, Dover, Delaware, came in with a vast of experience. Having been the Praise Leader at the Headquarters of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, in Nigeria, Africa, he transformed the “Mode of Worship” in HGE. Through his knowledge and wisdom of what can be accomplished by giving God the Praise and Worship due to Him, members of HGE have been experiencing Victorious livings. He was appointed the Coordinator of Zone eight in October 2005.

Pastor James Fadele and Pastor John Omewah headed the ground breaking of the new church building in October 2006 and Pastor Omewah laid the foundation in January 2007. Members of HGE selflessly contributed, working day and night to see that the first phase of the Church building was completed for the dedication by our father in the Lord; Pastor E.A. Adeboye in October 2008. Heaven's Glorious Embassy is recognized as a body of Christ that “Enter into his presence through Worship” Here God is exalted in Worship, His Kingdom is being expanded through evangelism and discipleship is established through the undiluted Word of God.

As members of HGE continue to Worship and lift our eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh our help, The Almighty will continue to perfect all that pertains unto us.

We firmly believe Habakkuk 2:3 Which says "For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie: though it tarry wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.