United Denomination: Lighthouse Group of Churches

United Denominations Originating from the Lighthouse Group of Churches
TheologyPentecostal
LanguageMultilingual
HeadquartersQodesh, Accra, Ghana
FounderDag Heward-Mills
Origin1987
Official websitedaghewardmills.org
Location of the Qodesh in Ghana is located in Ghana
Location of the Qodesh in Ghana
Location of the Qodesh in Ghana
Location of the Qodesh in Ghana (Ghana)

5°35′17″N 0°13′48″W / 5.587981°N 0.230065°W / 5.587981; -0.230065 The United Denominations Originating from the Lighthouse Group of Churches (formerly "Lighthouse Chapel International") is a Pentecostal Christian denomination founded in 1987 by Dag Heward-Mills and headquartered in Accra, Ghana.

Structure

UD-OLGC is made up of several denominations, over 7,500 churches, two archbishops and over 250 bishops across three continents. Heward-Mills is the presiding Bishop of UD-OLGC. The current convener of the UD-OLGC is Bishop Ishmael Sam of the Loyalty House International denomination.

Denominations

The denominations include:

Beliefs

The church opposes prosperity theology.

UD-OLGC's work includes building churches and hospitals, training pastors, helping people living in poverty and with disability, and holding evangelistic campaigns in many nations.

UD-OLDC is a member of the National Association of Charismatic and Christian Churches (NACCC) and the Pentecostal World Fellowship.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "United denominations originating from the Lighthouse group of churches". Dag Heward-Mills official website. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  2. ↑ Samuel Nii Narku Dowuona, Prosperity preaching is 'nonsense' - Bishop Dag, modernghana.com, Ghana, April 6, 2015
  3. ↑ Quampah, Dela (20 August 2014). Good Pastors, Bad Pastors: Pentecostal Ministerial Ethics in Ghana. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-62564-051-2. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Membership". Pentecostal World Fellowship. Archived from the original on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2020.

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