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TESTIMONIES have continued to be the lot of numerous visitors,
Christians and non-Christ-ians, to the Open Heavens In-ternational
Centre at the Red-emption Camp of the Redee-med Christian Church of
God, RCCG, which houses a very unique gallery/library. Barely a year
after the conversion of Pastor Enoch Adeboye's first residence to a
gallery/library, where serious-minded breth-ren who desire to meet the
re-vered spiritual leader one-on-one are given an opportunity to
travel the path he (Adebo-ye) traversed, the place has pl-ayed host to
thousands of wor-shippers wishing to pray.
Pastor Yusuf Olayiwola from Katsina who visited the gall-ery said:
"The grace of God on Pastor and Pastor (Mrs.) Ade-boye has been
inspirational and challenging. It is a great privilege to be related
to such a great icon."
Dr. Remi Sogunro narrated how he laid three requests be-fore the LORD
at Daddy G.O's Prayer Room and the first request was granted
instantly, while the second was granted days later and answer to the
third came few weeks later.
Rhema Ufuomaoghene Aka-lamudo, a JSS Istudent, am-ongst many other
visitors, washealed of a sprained waist af-ter praying inthe Prayer
Room.
Last year July, the matriarch of the church, Pastor (Mrs.) Folu
Adeboye had a vision to convert their first house in the camp, where
they jointly fought against wet floors, wild animals, reptiles, and
other pr-incipalities and powers, into a place where tourists to the
camp can practically appre-ciate Pastor Adeboye's spirit-ual voyage.

That was how the gallery, a video pictorial journey of Past-or
Adeboye, was born on July 6, 2011. Situated on 1, Holi-ness Road in
the camp, the gallery gives a vivid descript-ion of how God has used
the man of God to impact this gen-eration. It contains the basic
things the first family used when they first moved into the Redemption
Camp from their modest home in Mushin, Lagos—a conference room where
the guest is made welcome bythe G.O. himself on video and prayed for;
Life and Times, a pictorial documentary profile of the G.O's life and
times from birth to academia; from the academia to ministry, The
Gallery, a long aisle of photo gallery; Mummy's Room; a recast of
Mummy's Room as it once was (without a bed); Daddy's Room—a recast of
Daddy's Room the way it was when they first moved in to the camp;
Prayer Closet—G.O's prayer closet where earnest and fervent prayers
were uttered and answers received.
The guest is then chaperoned through G.O's Library where he/she has a
first handpeep into the shelves to see Daddy's favourite books,
resource and relics, his authored books; Daddy G.O's 70th Birthday
Room which presents an enciting montage of child-hood, ministry,
family and academic photographs, his sporting materials like the
boxing gloves.
Finally the Souvenir Shop showing G.O's published books, bibles, Open
Heavens Devotional, Gift items such as T-shirts, calendars, brochures,
memorabilia, mugs, T-cups, flasks, ball pens, face caps etc.
One of the unique features of the library is that there are, at least,
two volumes of theHoly Qu'ran and the private sermon notes of the
General Overseer dating back to 1998.
At a recent dawn first anniversary ceremony, the RCCG matriach used
the occasion to thank all those who had contributed to the realisation
of the dream,stating that over N60 million was spent on the project
aimed principally at drawing people closer to God.

According to her, there had been challenges "but because of the name
that covers the place–Open Heavens—we have overcome all upstacles,"
noting that some individuals who pirated the annual devotional were
recently arrested and dealt with in accordance with the nation's laws.
She revealed that over 140,000 copies of this year's edition of the
devotional were still in the stores because of the activities of
pirates.
Pastor Adeboye who acknowledged that his first year as general
overseer was very ch-allenging, said he had several encounters while
in the then swampy house, adding "It is the house of Power." According
to him, the only lesson he had learnt in life is that the only friend
one can trust 100 per cent is God, adding "He is myultimate role
model."
Curator, Femi Adisa said the gallery is open to the public every day
except Sundays.