No tragedy behind it: “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” was written about ordinary days
Thomas Chisholm wrote "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" in 1923, and William Runyan set it to music. Unlike many famous hymns, it was not born from a…
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A church founded in 1952 by a man who could barely read now fills a city of its own. The Redeemed Christian Church of God
The Redeemed Christian Church of God was founded in Nigeria in 1952 by Josiah Akindayomi. Under Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer since 1981, it grew into…
A church launched in a classroom in 1984 now runs a university. Mensa Otabil and ICGC
Pastor Dr Mensa Otabil founded the International Central Gospel Church, inaugurated in Accra on 26 February 1984. The church grew into one of Ghana's largest charismatic…
His wife and newborn son died within days. Thomas A. Dorsey sat at a piano and wrote “Precious Lord”
In 1932, Thomas A. Dorsey's wife Nettie died in childbirth, and their baby son died soon after. Out of that grief he wrote "Take My Hand,…
“Tell them about the dream, Martin”: the gospel singer who changed the most famous speech in American history
At the March on Washington on 28 August 1963, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson sang before Martin Luther King Jr. spoke. As he delivered his prepared text,…
He was strangled and burned for translating the Bible into English. William Tyndale’s last prayer was about a king
William Tyndale translated the New Testament into English from Greek and printed it in 1526, against the law. He was executed near Brussels in 1536. Much…
Blind from infancy, she wrote thousands of hymns. Fanny Crosby and “Blessed Assurance”
Fanny Crosby lost her sight as a baby and went on to write more than 8,000 hymns, including "Blessed Assurance", written in 1873 to a tune…
A thunderstorm in Sweden, a church bell, and a translation through three languages: the story of “How Great Thou Art”
"How Great Thou Art" began as "O Store Gud", a poem Carl Boberg wrote in 1885 after a thunderstorm in Sweden. It passed through German and…
From Nigerian Idol winner to “Excess Love”: how Mercy Chinwo became one of Africa’s most sung worship voices
Mercy Chinwo won Nigerian Idol, signed with EeZee Conceptz in 2017, and released "Excess Love" in April 2019. The song swept the maiden Africa Gospel Awards…
Four missionaries arrived in 1828. Three were dead within a year. How the Presbyterian Church of Ghana began
The Basel Mission sent four missionaries to the Gold Coast in December 1828. Three died in 1829 and the fourth in 1831. The church survived because…