The history of Christ’s Chosen Church of God international holds great teachings and testimony for any believer who understands the steadfastness, uprightness, and uncompromising nature of God .The chequered history of the church shows the awesomeness and the mighty working power of the Holy Spirit. Joseph Apostolic” into a Nigeria world in which the people’s struggle was mainly political and agai
nst colonial rule. Nigeria was forming and the organizing political scene was filled with negotiation both at home for party supremacy and in Britain for national recovery, Alongside this struggle, the conventional churches also had this struggle largely about their character, their method and rituals. Converts came to the church not only from the cracks on the conventional churches, but also from the strongholds of worshipping in the heathen environs. More and more homes were getting disillusioned with idol worshipping and were increasingly finding solace in the lord Jesus. Joseph’s Apostolic Church spread branches all over Bendel (then part of We stem Region of Nigeria). The leader of this new church was Joseph Ikechukwu Anyanwu, known more by his faithful as, “the Elect of God” He soon dropped ‘Anyanwu’ from his name and retained his first name because, according to him, it was Joseph Ikechukwu that God called, not Anyanwu. Ajagbodudu in Sapele area of Bendel State, was where the earliest root of the church was planted. It was the village where Joseph Ikechukwu was called in 1949 from his daily labour in palm oil production to the vineyard of God.
