RCCG ends 2025 Convention on high note; Pastor Adeboye announces new themes

The 73rd Annual Convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) with the theme The Overcomers came to a glorious end on Sunday, August 10, 2025 with the General Overseer (GO) of the mega Church, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye announcing the themes for December’s Holy Ghost Congress and next year’s Annual Convention of the Church.

Ending with a joyful Thanksgiving Service, the ordination of 2818 full Pastors and consecration of 114 Honorary Elders, Pastor Adeboye announced that the theme of next year’s convention will be Mountain Movers while the December Congress will have as theme The God of All Flesh.

The one-week Annual Convention that started on Monday, August 4, 2025, was attended by millions of people in-person at the Redemption City of God on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, and by many more virtual worshippers. There were very many foreign delegates, some of who gave goodwill messages, and testified concerning the spectacular work that God is doing across the world through the RCCG.

Starting with Bible College graduation on day one, the Convention featured among many other events, ordination of Deacons, Deaconesses and Assistant Pastors, before the ordination of full Pastors yesterday, the final day of the programme.

There were also seminars by senior Pastors, including those from other ministries from across the country and beyond.

There were parades, different natural group meetings, intense prayers, praise and worship sessions, preaching of the word by Pastor Adeboye and other Anointed Ministers of the gospel, a Service of Songs, a deliverance service, as well as the Holy Ghost Night of the Convention and the Holy Communion and Anointing Service.

All the sessions were highly impactful, and some startling testimonies of the miracles, signs and wonders that only God could have performed were shared in the different services. Pastor Adeboye, on his part, spoke of how God intervened to ensure clement weather throughout the Convention, contrary to the prediction of meteorologists that rain would continue to fall throughout each day for all the days of the programme.

Crowds of worshippers kept pouring into the City from several days before the official start of Convention, and by last Wednesday, the third day, the sprawling Old Auditorium of the Church where the programme started had been filled to the brim and people were told to start moving to the ultra modern new 3 by 3 auditorium where the G.O himself started ministering from during the last days of the hugely successful Convention.

All those who participated were being fed, twice each day, and as the kitchen was very busy, so also was the maternity center, which reported that as at the time the G. O was making the announcement during the Thanksgiving/Ordination Service on Sunday, August 10, 2025, 116 children had been born during the Convention, 64 boys, 52 girls.

When Pastor Adeboye called for babies that had been born since last year’s Convention to come forward to be prayed for, hundreds of thousands of babies were brought forward, both at the old and new auditoriums, evidence of the intervention of God in the homes where there had been waiting for the fruit of the womb in the past. He also announced that next month’s (September 2025) Holy Ghost Service will be dedicated to those waiting on God for the fruit of the womb.

One of the several exciting moments of the programme was when the immediate past Vice President of Nigeria, who before he became Vice President, was a senior Pastor of the Church, came up to lead prayers.

Overall, the weather turned out to be perfect, the more than 10,000 member strong Choir of the Church was its best, the audio-visual team performed excellently, the sanitation team were on their toes, the Team Nehemiah (controlling traffic) were terrific and every other department functioned at top form, going by the rating of the G.O as expressed when he was acknowledging those who contributed to the great success that the Convention turned out to be, including, very importantly, his wife, Pastor (Mrs.) Folu Adeboye, who received a standing ovation from the crowd for her untiring efforts.

Going by his jubilant announcement of the themes of the December Congress and next year’s Convention, his guess has shifted to the greater heights that the Church will attain in the months and years ahead.