November 30, 722
Boniface is consecrated a bishop by Pope Gregory II for the work he will do as a missionary to the Germans.
November 30, 1170
Thomas à Becket crosses the English Channel, returning to his post at Canterbury after a six-year exile in France. Four weeks later, knights of King Henry II will murder him.
November 30, 1215
The Fourth Lateran Council ends with its third session. At this council official use was first made of the term “transubstantiation” with reference to the Eucharist.
November 30, 1554
Cardinal Pole announces England’s reconciliation with the pope.
November 30, 1737
Moravian missionaries on Saint Thomas island allow Andreas and Petrus, two Afro-Caribbeans, to share the Lord’s Table, a first for the island’s slave population.
November 30, 1812
Harriet Newell, one of America’s first women missionaries to a foreign land, dies of consumption near India. She had lost a baby shortly before, owing to a severe storm, and was prostrate from the experience.
November 30, 1846
John Geddie sails from Nova Scotia for Polynesia where he will labor for many disappointing years on Aneiteum in the New Hebrides before seeing a spiritual breakthrough. Once the islanders are converted, however, they will be so zealous for Christ that they will send missionaries to other islands.
November 30, 1892
Death of F. J. A. Hort, Bible scholar who had worked with B. F. Westcott on a critical edition of the Greek New Testament, the foundation for almost all modern English translations of the New Testament.
30th November, 2020
Ghana Court of Appeal delivers judgment in favour of Living Faith Church Worldwide aka Winners' Chapel International 16 years after the rebellion in Ghana by Bishop George Adjeman. The Supreme Court in 2023 upheld the ruling of the Appeal Court and issued an order for Bishop Adjeman to vacate the Church premises. Bishop Adjeman is yet to comply.
30th November, 1957
First Service is held in the basement of the Apostolic Faith Church, Nigeria Headquarters, at 49 Moloney Street, Ebute Metta, Lagos, with 657 people in attendance. The Headquarters is currently based at Faith City, Igbesa Ogun State, Nigeria. The Nigeria Mission of the Apostolic Faith Church began under the leadership of Brother Timothy Oshokoya with 8 people but today, there are over 700 branches across Nigeria. The mother Church is the United States Apostolic Faith International, which was founded by Reverend Florence Crawford in 1906.
30th November, 1888
Robert Gilmour LeTourneau was born in Richford, Vermont, United States of America. He was a prolific inventor of off-shore drilling platforms, electric-drive wheels, and heavy earth-moving machinery. He was a devoted Christian and a philanthropist who affected the lives of many with his benevolent acts. He gave 90 percent of his salary and company profits for religious donations while living on the other 10 percent. He is the founder of LeTourneau University, a private, Interdenominational Evangelical Christian University in Longview, Texas. He passed on to glory at the age of 81.
30th November, 2021
Marcus Lamb goes to be with the Lord. Marcus Lamb was the founder of Daystar Television Network, an award winning, faith-based television network dedicated to spreading the Gospel all around the Globe. He passed on to glory at the age of 64.
30th November, 1974
Samson Uche Mogekwu popularly known as Samsong is born. He is a Nigerian Gospel artiste and minister.
30th November, 2015
The academic activities of Saint Augustine University began. It is located in Lagos State and founded by the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos.
November 30, 1953
Missionaries hold thirty days of revival and healing services at “Sharon,” a property in Tiruvalla, India, purchased by pastor Painnumoottil John Thomas. Attendance reaches over one hundred thousand a night and many converts become the nucleus of the Sharon Fellowship Churches of India (Sharon Church) which will have over two thousand local fellowships in thirty-four countries by the twenty-first century. Within two years Thomas establishes a pastoral training college on the property, the first of ten Bible colleges.
November 30, 1979
State burial of Aberi K. Balya, in Uganda. He had helped translate the Bible into the Runyoro/Rutooro language, became a bishop in the Church of England, and established many schools.
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