LIBERIA: Hundreds praise God for protecting well-known Evangelist Rev. Dagadus, after car crash
By James Kokulo Fasuekoi|Editor-Publisher
Hundreds of well-wishers, friends and relatives-majority of who are Christian brothers and sisters-during the week heaped praises to ALMIGHT GOD for yet sparing the life of Rev. Dr. Christian Dagadu, one of the country’s well known evangelists, involved in a near-serious motor accident.
On November 4th, one of Dagadu’s 4-Wheels cruisers collided with a “Keke TVS,” a common type of transport carrier in Liberia. The accident occurred in the Thopoe Village area along the Freeport-Gardnesville road. Evangelist Dagadu was the only occupant.
Since the accident, hundreds of well-wishers, friends and relatives have flooded his social media page with felicitation messages of praises to GOD. In less than a week, his page had received more than 300 comments, all wishing him God’s speedy recovery from pains sustained from the misshape.
Among comforting messages wired to the Dagadus included the followings: “Our God is always in control”-ES; “The Lord is your deliverer my dear brother”-MWB; and this one from MP, “Thank God for turning the evil plains [plans] around.”
In appreciation, Rev. Dagadu, on Wednesday wrote a line and thanked well-wishers for their prayers and wonderful comments.
Pastor Dagadu is founder and senior pastor of Christian Evangelistic Pentecostal Church Inc., (CHRISEM) of Liberia, with headquarters near Jamaica Road along Gardnerville Highway close to Cement Factory. CHRISEM has planted churches all over Monrovia and in the hinterlands of Liberia.
In a brief chat with this news magazine Wednesday night, Pastor Dagadu told Global Ekklesia the incident happened during a fast and prayer season for his church and that he had been on his way to their headquarters to pray.
He said the impact was heavier on the passenger’s side of the cruiser, the spot normally occupied by his wife, Pastor Precious Dagadu. Fortunately she had decided to stay home just before Pastor Dagadu took off for prayer at their worship center.
Pastor Christian Dagadu is one of Liberia’s well sought after pastors and has preached the Gospels in many African and US cities in the past years.
Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19 which shattered life’s normalcy across North America, a huge number of people of African descent took off from work, ahead of Dagadu’s arrival in the U.S. in order to join his fasts and prayers services meant to break “evil curses” and stagnation in peoples’ lives.
At home in Liberia, Pastor Dagadu and his wife Pastor Precious Dagadu run a Bible school where young evangelists and pastors received pastoral trainings and sent out into the country to spread the Good News of the Second Coming of our Messiah, Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Besides, both run an effective deliverance ministry in the capital where countless people, especially young men and women being tormented by demonic forces, receive a week or two intense treatments.
In 2018, for instance, following CHRISEM’s annual nationwide crusades, held under the theme: “WALKING UNDER AN OPEN HEAVEN,” this writer saw people, especially women, in childbearing age arrived by the hours, one after the other (at the church’s old Sinkor offices), in order to receive deliverance, one of the neediest ministries today in the country, from demonic afflictions.
Similarly, during our last April-May trip to Liberia scores of people, some from as far as the United States sat in queues at CHRISEM’s new Chocolate City office and with each waiting patiently for his or her turn to be called in.
CHRISEM’s team of evangelists over the years succeeded in breaking aged-old cultural barriers that long hindered the spread of the Gospels in certain parts of Liberia still steep in rituals activities, places most evangelists never ventured.
Rev. Dagadu isn’t new to trials which understandably, might have a link the type of works he performs for God in that his church ministry is one of few in the entire nation engaged in healing and delivery ministries, areas our Lord Christ thought Christians to operate as in Matthews 8:1-17.
Unfortunately, many Christians nowadays appear to have neglected those important calls thus opening room for the devil (satan) to afflict scores of God’s people in the earth.
Prior to COVID-19, Dagadu was hit hard by an illness that caused him to slip into coma and became totally disabled for months. He was flown to Ghana where doctors said his brains had gotten damaged.
Photographs shot of the pastor moments before take-off horrified the congregation at Spiritual Life Church. His head, with the exception of the eyes, was wrapped in bandage that he became unrecognizable, a situation that prompted the congregation to pray intensely for his speedy recovery.
Like everyone, Pastor Dagadu had a dream of his own in the beginning. He wanted to become an engineer. So he went to school and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Management at the University of Liberia.
Afterwards, he felt the Call of God on his life; soon he started another journey that led him through a series of Biblical studies, beginning with Spiritual Life Seminary of Bible Theology at Brooklyn Center, MN, where he received a Master of Science Degree.
When asked once as to how does he manage to penetrate rural towns that still don’t welcome the Gospels especially, Pentecostal Movement (known for speaking in tongues), due to cultural practices, he smiled and said, he usually take a fast and pray and wait to hear from God before he can move in.
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