GENERAL Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William F. Kumuyi, recently in London, married Folashade Aduke Blaize,a church leader in London.
Dressed in a modest business suit, Kumuyi watched as his bride, in a pink and purple skirt suit, took the vow of marriage.
In a statement yesterday, the church secretary, Pastor L.P. Nnadozie, said guests at the wedding were entertained at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, London.
The new wife, 65, is a household name in the church as she has been the administrator of the Deeper Life Bible Church, London.
According to Nnadozie, Esther was never married before as she had “committed her life to the service of the Lord”.
Nnadozie said the solemnisation ceremony of the couple’s Christian marriage was held on Wednesday, October 13, 2010.
Kumuyi had lost his first wife, Biodun, in April last year. The death of the woman fondly called “mummy” or “mama” by members of the church, “became a cause for concern for leaders in the church as she was almost inseparable from her husband. The church leaders were so concerned that the pastor must not remain lonely, that they led a delegation to encourage him to begin praying to God to give him another wife. The leaders also began praying for their pastor to get another partner. Although initially reluctant, Pastor Kumuyi later prayed and testified to the leaders that God had answered their prayers. This is what culminated in the marriage ceremony in London”.
He said the wife of the general superintendent is the national and international woman coordinator of the church, a role that cannot be filled by any other woman.
The wedding was attended by leaders and members of the church from Europe and representatives from Nigeria.
Nnadozie said key leaders of the church in all parts of Nigeria, who could not attend the wedding ceremony, burst into spontaneous applause as they watched the video recording of the event in Deeper Life Churches across country on Tuesday.
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