I welcome you to the Sacred Cherubim and Seraphim Church World Wide, incorporated under Certificate No. 324 with International General Head Quarters at Ibadan, Capital of the then Western Nigeria, now Oyo State, about 125 miles north of Lagos.
I sincerely hope that every second of your visit to our site would be an exciting experience. Please note our definite identity: The Sacred Cherubim and Seraphim Church. There is no prefix in any portion of our name other than the fact that our formal name, “The Sacred Cherubim and Seraphim Society of Nigeria Inc”, under Nigerian Laws remains valid, being under the same Certificate No. 324, which is unavailable to anyone else.
The Sacred Cherubim and Seraphim Church from onset in 1925 was an integral part — it was in fact the part — of the whole first Pentecostal movement in Nigeria founded by Moses Orimolade Tunolase, a native of Ikare in the present Ondo State of Nigeria. The movement at formation in 1925 was in the then Western Nigeria, in an area covering Ikeja, Agege, Badagry, Ikorodu and Epe (all now in Lagos State), spreading across the present Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti, Osun, Delta, Edo and parts of the present Bayelsa State. We then operated as the Western Conference under the founder before the misunderstanding in Lagos.
The Sacred Cherubim and Seraphim Church worldwide, as we are now popularly known, is bent on setting in motion a new social order to remove the stigma being slammed, albeit unfairly, on white garment churches. We are revolutionary in nature; we are Pentecostal in approach; we are evangelical and pastoral in operations without losing the basics as a truly Holy Spirit-guided Christian church denomination, building on the foundation laid by the past five General Superintendents — all of blessed memory.
The present leadership holds passionately and tenaciously to the doctrine of the Trinity — God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost. We believe in the inspired words of God in both the Old and New Testament; we believe with passion the gospel of Jesus Christ in its totality; we hold as sacred the baptism by immersion as expressly commanded by our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ (Mark 16:15–16), as one of the requirements for our salvation; we believe in the sanctification of oil and water for healing without a charge as commanded by our Lord in Matthew 10:8. We believe in and accept the usage of ordinary white candle and sanctified incense during devotional services.
We wage war against witchcraft, occult practices and fetish practices in any form, the usage of any red candles or any fetish objects or materials under any disguise, in discharge of our responsibility to those in search of solutions to obvious spiritual problems arising from works of demonic forces. While we revere the saints, we do not worship or adore them; we do not worship the angels, whose functions are to assist human beings in times of need.
Our belief is grounded on the efficacy of prayers without any rituals or seeming demonic, fetish or idolatry practices or pretences. It is for this reason that we detest the construction of a make-believe ark of covenant (Exodus 25) and the ritualistic practices thereof. We earnestly believe that the blood shed on the cross is our everlasting sacrifice in place of all rituals.
We hold dearly the parting instructions of our Lord Jesus Christ to go into the field to evangelise (Mark 16:15; Matthew 28:19). It is for this reason that the present leadership has made evangelism the cornerstone of his administration and is committing a lot of his personal resources to evangelism.
To us at Sacred, the sanctity of marriage, which presupposes the practice of monogamy as a way of life for all Christians whether priests or members, is a must (1 Timothy 3). In Nigeria alone, there are some 1,000 assemblies made up of parishes and branches, with sub-conferences in Ghana and the United States of America. The creation of a sub-conference in the United Kingdom is now being considered.
Each of our sub-conferences, parishes and branches (sub-parishes) is headed in most cases by tent-making priests who, like St. Paul, engage themselves in mundane activities for their livelihood to avoid being a burden on the Church. I am one of the many tent-makers in the vineyard.
The Church has five Ministries
More than ever before, there is now an urgency for aggressive evangelism, especially in the face of the prevailing permissive society. Without funds, the harvest would be lost (Romans 10:14–15).
After this visit or your subsequent ones you may wish to contact me on my e-mail address: babaalakoso@hotmail.com.
Many thanks for your visit,
Dr. Solomon Ade Alao