PROFILE ON BISHOP CHRISTOPHER ABIODUN MATTHEW BISHOP DR. CHRISTOPHER ABIODUN MATTHEW IS THE PRESIDING PRELATE OF THE “REHOBOTH INTERNATIONAL BELIEVERS ASSEMBLY.” A DYNAMIC CHURCH BASED MINISTRY. HE IS A MAN OF GOD WITH THE APOSTOLIC/PROPHET CALL AND ANOINTING UPON HIS LIFE AND MINISTRY. CALLED INTO FULL-TIME MINISTRY IN 1981, WITH A CLEAR VISION TO BRING TOTAL FREEDOM TO MANKIND AND TO TAKE GOD’S PEOPLE TO THEIR WEALTHY PLACE OF PROSPERITY THROUGH THE POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD. HE HAS OVER THREE DECADES DEVELOPED A PRACTICAL, HUMOROUS AND ASTUTE STYLE OF THE DELIVERY OF THE WORD OF GOD. SEVERAL LIFE CHANGING MIRACLES AND TESTIMONIES HAVE CONTINUED TO TRAIL HIS MINISTRY. BEFORE THE FOUNDING OF THE CHURCH, WHICH HE PRESENTLY OVERSEES, HE HAD PIONEERED PASTORED CHURCH MINISTRY FOR OVER 30 YEARS AND ALSO SERVED IN VARIOUS MINISTRY CAPACITIES, AS SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AND SUPERINTENDENT. OUTREACH LEADER AND CRUSADES DIRECTOR. WORSHIP LEADER EXTRAORDINAIRE AND MUSIC/CHOIR DIRECTOR. HE WAS THE WORSHIP LEADER AND MUSIC DIRECTOR FOR MORRIS CERULLO AFRICAN CONGRESS ON EVANGELISM, HELD IN 1992, IN NIGERIA, WITH SEVERAL AFRICAN COUNTRIES IN PERTICIPATION. ASSITANT/SENIOR ASSOCIATE PASTOR FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND A PARISH PASTOR OF A LOCAL CHURCH. A BIBLE SCHOOL LECTURER IN VARIOUS BIBLE COLLEGES UNTIL THE LORD LED HIM TO BEGIN THE WORK THAT HE PRESENTLY OVERSEES. ALL OF THESE HAVE EARNED HIM GREAT EXPERIENCES AND MATURITY IN MINISTRY. FROM THE EIGHTIES, THROUGH THE NINETIES UNTIL NOW, BISHOP DR. CHRISTOPHER ABIODUN MATTHEW, HAS PASSED THROUGH VARIOUS TRAININGS IN BIBLE COLLEGES, LEADERSHIP AND CHURCH GROWTH INSTITUES BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD. BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY, IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA, THOUGH AN INDIGENE OF EDO STATE, HE HAD HIS PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLINGS IN LAGOS WHERE HE ALSO ATTENDED AND STUDIED AT THE LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY, (LASU). HE IS THE FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF PENTECOSTAL MINISTERS – (ICPM). A MINISTRY HE FOUNDED SINCE 1990, HELPING MINISTERS BUILD LASTING MINISTRIES. AND ALSO THE DIRECTOR OF GREAT PARTNERS NETWORK (GPN) WORLDWIDE, HERE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AN AUTHOR AND A PSALMIST WHO IS HIGHLY GIFTED IN WRITING AND SINGING GOSPEL SONGS.