Nigerian Pentecostals Hope to ‘Plant Churches Like Starbucks’ in US
European and American missionaries have traveled to Africa to spread the gospel, but a Nigerian pastor plans to do the opposite: build churches as numerous as Starbucks.
Pastor James Fadele is a pastor in Texas with the Redeemed Christian Church of God in North America, a Pentecostal movement that started in Nigeria in 1952. He runs the church in North America and pastors a congregation about an hour northeast of Dallas.
Pentecostalism has its roots in the U.S., but it’s a global movement today, with most of its growth happening in Latin America and Africa. An estimated 280 million people follow Pentecostalism worldwide, reports Slate.com....