Ingenius Bishop Oyedepo Finds A Way Around Govt Ban, Announces Plan For End Of The Year Service

Charles Oyelesi

Bishop David Oyedepo has announced the plan for the highly popular end of the service.

The end of the year service which is traditionally done as a cross-over service is conducted at churches to welcome a new year. It starts late in outgoing and spirals into the new year.

The government in different states, including Ogun where the headquarters of Oyedepo’s Living Faith Church Worldwide – better known as Winners chapel – is located and Lagos, where the bulk of the congregants to the place come from have banned crossover service as part of a strategy in curtailing the fight against the second wave of Covid-19.

Societynow.ng gathered that Oyedepo who has consistently expressed strong faith in the inability of the Covid-19 virus to function in spiritual environments appears to have found an ingenius way around the ban.

Insiders disclosed that Oyedepo has scheduled an earlier end of the year service on Thursday, December 31, 2020.

“It is a two-hour service that is scheduled from 6.00 pm till 8.00 pm” societynow.ng learned.

The information at hand revealed that the 8.00 pm end time is to provide ample time for those who plan to attend from Lagos to return home before the 12.00 am till 4.00 am curfew imposed by the Federal Government comes into effect.

It is, however, not clear how Oyedepo and his co-administrators at Winners Chapel intend to stick to stipulations regarding religious gatherings such as adhering to 50% capacity at venues, use of face masks, and related protocols.