A woman has attracted attention online after reportedly climbing onto the altar during a recent church service and appealing to the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, to ordain her.
A video circulating on social media shows the woman approaching the altar while Pastor Adeboye was ministering. She appeared to seek the attention of the respected cleric and was heard making an appeal concerning her desire to be ordained.
The unusual moment has since generated reactions online, with some viewers amused by the woman’s bold approach, while others have focused on the seriousness of responding to a perceived call to ministry.
A social media post sharing the footage described it as the moment a woman “climbed up the altar” to ask Pastor Adeboye to ordain her.
However, there is no credible evidence at the time of this publication that the woman was subsequently ordained by Pastor Adeboye or RCCG. Her name and other personal details have also not been independently established.
Ordination in RCCG follows a process
The incident has also renewed interest in how ministerial ordination is conducted within RCCG.
Ordination in the church is not simply a matter of an individual approaching the General Overseer and requesting to become a pastor. RCCG has historically subjected candidates to established processes before ordination.
For example, during the church’s 2019 annual convention, thousands of deacons and deaconesses were presented for ordination after being selected through the church’s processes. Pastor Adeboye explained at the time that RCCG ordination involved laying on of hands, proclamation and prayer.
Similarly, in 2024, the church ordained thousands of deacons, deaconesses and assistant pastors during its annual convention, with candidates presented to the General Overseer and the laying on of hands conducted by senior ministers.
Pastor Adeboye himself has previously spoken about his own unusual journey into pastoral ministry. He said he was ordained in 1975, only two years after joining RCCG, after the church’s founder, Pa Josiah Akindayomi, told him that God had instructed him to ordain him. Adeboye recalled that he and his wife even fasted and prayed for 14 days because he initially did not want to become a pastor.
The viral incident, therefore, should be understood as an unusual moment during a church service rather than evidence that the woman was automatically accepted into pastoral ministry.
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