Pastor Sunday Adelaja

Sunday Adelaja is the founder and senior pastor of the Embassy of God, an evangelical-charismatic megachurch in Kiev, Ukraine. He immigrated to the USSR and Belarus as a scholarship student from Nigeria in 1986 to study journalism. After communism persecution, he started a church in Kiev at age 27. By the age 33, the church was the biggest in the history of Europe, passing 15,000 members in year. Adelaja's movement is also present in Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Moldova, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, the United States and Uzbekistan

By age 33, he had built the largest charismatic church in Europe, having started with only a few followers in a small apartment in downtown Kiev in 1994. Since then his church has grown to more than 700 churches in over 45 countries and has been instrumental in starting over 300 rehab centers for drug addicts and alcoholics, situated all over Ukraine and Russia. 1,000 to 2,000 people are fed daily at the churches soup kitchens in Kiev. The church also has a program helping homeless people acquiring skills, thus helping them back to a normal life and work. According to the church 2,000 children have been helped off the street, and have been returned t their families. Furthermore the church runs a 24 Hour Hotline for people to call in need.

He has authored over 80 book titles including a #1 Bestseller - ChurchShift; and Money Won't Make You Rich which will be available in stores and online later during 2009

Pastor Sunday was honored to open the U.S. Senate in prayer April 23, 2007. At the Azusa Street Revival Festival on Saturday April 25, 2009, Sunday Adelaja received the first International William J. Seymour Award. This award is given to ministers who exhibit the characteristics of William J. Seymour.
In March 2008 the Archbishop Benson Idahosa Prize for Missionary Exploits was presented to Rev. Sunday Adelaja in recognition of his missionary exploits and social engagement in Kiev, Ukraine and around the world. In March 2007 Sunday Adelaja became an Honorable Member of the Euroasian International Chamber of Commerce.
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