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RCN President
The President
Arome Osayi (The Set Man of Remnant Christian Network) was born on 2nd December, 1977, the fifth child in a family of seven, to late Chief Paul Ameh Osayi – a career civil servant and Mrs. Mamuna Osayi – a career nurse in the capital city of Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria. His parents were devout Christians and were fully invested in raising him and his siblings in the ways of the Lord. His parents’ commitment to God would yield hundred percent result as he and all his six siblings would personally get to know the Lord at a young age.
Arome got saved at the age of seven. His battle for destiny began in his mother’s womb as he was born with facial palsy – which massively impaired his speech and left half of his face paralysed. Though vocally disadvantaged from birth, his getting to meet the Lord early enough on account of his parents’ commitment to the Lord set him on a great collision course with destiny.
His tongue would be loosened in a momentous encounter he had with Jesus at the age of thirteen. It was at this encounter that he received the call to be God’s mouthpiece to the nations. His teenage years right into his mid twenties were replete with pushing, stretching, daring and adventuring into the full gamut of this call. His progress was slow but steady; his strides in the pursuit of God were rhythmic and his following of Jesus Christ has been a concatenation of obedience, consistency and service born out of deep-seated hunger and love for God.
In October 2002, shortly after completing his tertiary education with a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Benue State University, Makurdi, and being on the cusp of successfully rounding off the mandatory one-year national service in Kano State, Nigeria, his dealings with God culminated in an apostolic mandate with the thrust to reinforce, intensify and scale up the apostolic recovery in the body of Christ across the nations. In December 2006, he founded the Remnant Christian Network.
In recent years, Remnant Christian Network has witnessed such a transcontinental upsurge as it rapidly morphs into a place where the gospel of the kingdom of Christ is preached with great grace in revelation, inspiration, illumination, signs, miracles, and prophetic breakthroughs as God confirms His word in the mouth of His servant and as men come into their ordinations in God. Its borderless, tentacular penetration across the nations conspicuously places it in the vanguard of the current apostolic recovery taking place on the planet from the Sub-Saharan African front. The Network is run with a divine policy direction from Isaiah 37:31.
Arome Osayi has a summarized mission statement: To strive towards the rebirth of Apostolic Christianity.
He believes that in the years to come, people from all nations of the world will come to the RCN Embassy which is the ministry’s international headquarters domiciled in Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria, to experience the true God as well as get in tune with accurate apostolic patterns that they can replicate in their different nations.
Arome’s apostolic mandate is two-pronged: stretching from within the body of Christ to the marketplace. In keeping with the schematics of this mandate, in 2004, he got a job in the then newly- created PPPRA (Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency), an organisation charged with the responsibility of regulating the prices of petroleum products sold and consumed in Nigeria as a pioneer staff and would go on to meritoriously serve there for sixteen years. So, for nearly two decades, he has been an apostle to the body of Christ and in the marketplace.
Arome Osayi is an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, author, mentor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is married to Dinna, and their union is blessed with three children.
The Birth of RCN Lagos
Apostle Arome came into my life at a time when my business was adrift. The year was 2015, I was battling a multitude of issues and had pretty much put ministry on hold. My younger brother, who felt that I needed sufficient spiritual covering and fathering, which I wasn’t getting at my place of worship then, handed me Apostle Arome’s messages. I played the message titled Staying Power and immediately got an earful of someone blasting in tongues. It was Apostle. I was instantly captivated. I thought to myself, Who is this man? Where is he from? He reminded me of my church in Sokoto and I couldn’t help feeling at home. I listened to that message several times that day and afterwards collected his number.
We chatted for six months and eventually organized a meeting. The first day he met me, the first words out of his mouth were, When are you going to start what God has called you to do? He began to hold in-door bible studies with me and my wife, Pastor Grace, Pastor Victor and his wife, Motunrayo and Pastor Abbey. We ran those bible studies till very late at night, twice a week. We prayed, and studied the word and ate sumptuous meals prepared by my wife before we called it a night.
Apostle Arome was so keen on me fulfilling God’s call upon my life that when our team of five decided to hold our inaugural summit under the auspices of Global Intercessors Network on the 14th of August, 2014, Apostle Arome gave us the cash we used to secure the venue (₦45,000) as well as paid me an honorarium when we concluded the meeting. I was blown away by his selflessness. We planned to hold the second summit in December of the same year, but it did not work out. The following year, when we were trying to work out the modalities of registering Global Intercessors Network ministry, God spoke to us, questioning why we wanted to go ahead with Global Intercessors Network when He had already sent Apostle to teach, train and equip in this generation. He told us to give up Global Intercessors Network and join the Remnant Christian Network bandwagon. This, we did gladly and haven’t looked back since. We continued with in-door bible studies and during one of those meetings, Apostle singled me out for prayers and it was then the mantle of leadership of Remnant Christian Network, Lagos, was laid upon me.
Although RCN Lagos takes its bearing from Remnant Christian Network, Makurdi, its shape, rhythm and growth has been entirely organic. This is possible because the father of the commission Apostle Arome does not believe in emphasizing money or cloning ministries or persons. RCN Lagos runs according to the uniqueness of our territory because Apostle believes ministries should operate according to the uniqueness of their territory, therefore although all branches are pursuing the same vision, they are quite different in outlook and structure.
RCN Lagos is simply a ministry responding to the burdens in our generation and I am humbled to be leading that charge.
Austin Ukporhe
Point Man – RCN Lagos
The lead pastor of RCN Lagos Magodo Church
Pastor Opeoluwa Alonge is a bond servant of the most high God, a Teacher and Pastor within the five fold ministry who currently Pastor’s the Magodo expression of The Remnant Christian Network Lagos.
Opeoluwa Alonge is the managing partner at Reverse Consulting Ltd and the Executive Director of BestBuddies Nigeria; the Nigerian operations of BestBuddies International, Headquartered in Miami, Florida . He is also a partner at Brand Activation; an event management company, Partner in ADEFIZ limited; a real estate management company.
He is also a certified psychotherapist with expertise in trauma, pre- and post-marriage counseling, and WorkPlace Therapy.
He had his first degree in Philosophy from Obafemi Awolowo University, and obtained his MBA from the prestigious IE Business School in Madrid, Spain.
He is a husband to one, now and forever, and a biological father to four.
