Popular Pastor Quits Preaching After 40 Years.
The founder of Kingsway International Christian Center, KICC, Pastor Mathew Ashimolowo has decided to quit preaching the gospel after over 40 years of practice and has chosen real estate business as a career.
Our correspondent gathered that, the popular London based televangelist reported to have retired from full-time Christian ministry and is now one of the biggest landowners in Lagos State, Nigeria.
Though report has it that he has been acquiring real estate since the age of 27, when he acquired a small parcel of land, he expanded it to include about 900 acres of land in the Mowe area of Ogun State, where he built six estates before moving on to acquire more parcels of land in Ibeju Lekki coastal area of Lagos.
In addition to owning several properties in Pinnoch Estate, Lekki, Lagos, where he lives in a luxurious, smart-enabled mansion, he also owns several acres of land all over Lagos.
Pastor Mathew Ashimolowo is also said to be building one of Lagos’s most prominent luxury estates via his Makarios Luxury Properties.
The luxury estate known as Makarios is a dream city that hopes to rival the Dubai Marina. It sits on 95 acres of land where many rich people are now buying service plots.
The estate, which a German company is constructing, will feature about 10-floor high-rise buildings, 192 terrace houses, and 18 detached houses at completion.
He has earmarked almost 300 parcels of land on the luxury estate for sale. While he has a full-time pastor managing the Lagos branch of his church, his first son, Tobi, is in charge of the London branch and headquarters.
Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo is a recognised preacher, teacher, global leader and pioneer of wealth creation and wealth management who has been in business and productive activities since he was less than 30years of age when he started.
He is the Founder and C.E.O of 10 profitable companies, including the UK’s first church-owned television channel, KICC TV, which now reaches 140 million homes across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
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To further confirm his abilities as an inspiring visionary, Pastor Matthew founded Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC), a Christian charity that has a volunteer base of more than 1000 staff in the UK and a network of national and international satellite churches.
His weekly telecast Winning Ways is a source of motivation to many and his daily live broadcast ‘Morning Glow’ inspires and empowers more than 30,000 people a day via social media and as reported.
The famous pastor is an author of more than 100 books. Pastor Matthew is a sought-after international keynote speaker on topics including Leadership, Wealth Creation, Management and Strategic Planning.
As a noted philanthropist his annual Widows Empowerment event donates food, money and clothing to more than 10,000 women in Nigeria, and under his leadership KICC UK’s Noah’s Ark Food Bank has provided more than 40,000 meals to families, schools and the elderly across London, Kent and Essex during the pandemic.
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Matthew Ashimolowo is renowned as one of the most exciting and inspiring Christian voices on the world scene today. Honoured several times as the most influential black person in the public sector/religion category of the Power List, Matthew’s keen community focus has seen him spearhead the government’s grassroots response to Covid-19 and he led Church-government discussions in the fight against the pandemic.
