About Us

Resident Pastor: Gift Tikiwa

Welcome to Winners Chapel Blantyre, Malawi. Winners' Chapel (also known as Living Faith Church Worldwide) is a megachurch founded by Bishop David Oyedepo in 1981. The Church has since become a global network of churches with congregations in 34 countries.

Faith Tabernacle

The headquarters of Winners Chapel  international is  Faith Tabernacle. It covers about 70 acres (280,000 m²) and is built inside an over 10,500-acre (42 km²) church complex called Canaan land,the international headquarters of the ministry in Ota, a suburb of Lagos. The building took 12 months to be completed. The foundation laying took place on August 29, 1998. The dedication of the building took place on September 19, 1999 with 97,800 people in attendance. The structure is purported to have been built without any debts and within a year of work beginning.

Faith Tabernacle as from 1999-2008 was the largest church building in the world. It has a seating capacity of 50,400 people and an outside overflow capacity of over 250,000, with four services every Sunday. Canaan land was procured in 1998 and was initially 560 acres (2.3 km²). Presently it is over 10,500 acres (42 km²) and will take about 120 km to navigate around it.

Beliefs

The Church is founded upon twelve core emphases as follows:

1. FAITH (1 John 5:4; Eph. 6:16)
2. THE WORD (John 1:1-12; Heb. 1:3)
3. SIGNS AND WONDERS (Ps. 82:5-7; John 3:8)
4. THE HOLY SPIRIT (Acts 1:1-8; Isaiah 10:27)
5. PROSPERITY (3 John 2; Ps. 35:27; Zech. 1:17)
6. PRAYER (1 John 5:14)
7. HEALING (Isaiah 53:3-4; Jer. 8:22; Matt. 8:17)
8. WISDOM (Prov. 24:3-4, Isaiah 33:6)
9. SUCCESS (Joshua 1:8-10)
10. VISION (Prov. 29:18, Jer. 29:11)
11. CONSECRATION (Hebrews12:14; 2Tim. 2:19)
12. PRAISE (2 Chro. 20:20-22; Ps. 67:1-7; 149:1-9)

Our theological position is Pentecostal.