REV. DR. CHRISTOPHER ABIODUN MATTHEW IS THE PRESIDING BISHOP OF THE PREVAILING WORD CHURCH, WHICH BEGAN IN 1989. A DYNAMIC CHURCH BASED MINISTRY WITH ITS HEADQUARTERS IN LAGOS, AND BRANCHES IN NIGERIA. REV. DR. CHRIS A. MATTHEW, AS HE IS FUNDLY CALLED, IS A PASTOR WITH THE PROPHETIC ANOINTING UPON HIS LIFE AND MINISTRY. CALLED INTO THE MINISTRY IN 1981, WITH A CLEAR VISION, MISSION AND MANDATE, TO BRING TOTAL FREEDOM, DELIVERANCE AND PROSPERITY TO MANKIND THROUGH THE POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD IN ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. HE HAS OVER TWO DECADES DEVELOPED A PRACTICAL, HUMOROUS AND ASTUTE STYLE OF THE DILIVERY OF THE WORD OF GOD. SEVERAL MIRACLES AND TESTIMONIES HAVE CONTINUED TO TRAIL HIS MINISTRY. BEFORE THE FOUNDING OF THE CHURCH, WHICH HE PRESENTLY OVERSEES, HE SERVED IN VARIOUS MINISRTY CAPACITIES, AS SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AND SUPERINTENDENT, OUTREACH LEADER AND CRUSADE DIRECTOR, WORSHIP LEADER EXTRAORDINAIRE AND MUSIC DIRECTOR.

HE WAS THE WORSHIP LEADER AND MUSIC DIRECTOR FOR MORRIS CERULLO AFRICAN CONGRESS ON EVANGELISM, HELD IN 1992, WITH SEVERAL AFRICAN COUNTRIES IN PERTICIPATION. HE WAS ALSO RECENTLY THE MUSIC DIRECTOR FOR THE AFROFIRE CONFERENCE, HELD BY VICTORY CHURCHES INTERNATIONAL, USA/CANADA, WHICH ALSO HAD SEVERAL COUNTRIES IN PARTICIPATION. AN ASSITANT PASTOR FOR SEVERAL YEARS, AND A PARISH PASTOR OF A LOCAL CHRUCH. A BIBLE SCHOOL LECTURER IN VARIOUS COLLEGES UNTIL THE LORD LED HIM TO BEGIN THE WORK THAT HE PRESENTLY OVERSEES. ALL OF THESE HAVE EARNED HIM GREAT EXPERIENCES AND MATURITY IN MINISTRY. FROM THE EIGHTIES, THROUGH THE NINETIES UNTIL NOW, REV. DR. CHRIS A. MATTHEW, HAS PASSED THROUGH VARIOUS TRAININGS IN BIBLE COLLEGES, LEADERSHIP AND CHURCH GROWTH INSTITUES BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD. HE ALSO ATTENDED AND STUDIED AT THE LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY, (LASU). HE IS THE FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF PENTECOSTAL MINISTERS, (ICPM) AND INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF PENTECOSTAL PROPHETS, (I.L.P.P). BOTH MINISTRIES HE FOUNDED SINCE 1990, WHICH IS HELPING MINISTERS BUILD LASTING MINISTRIES.

REV. DR. CHRIS A. MATTHEW IS AN AUTHOR AND A PSALMIST, HIGHLY GIFTED IN WRITING AND SINGING GOSPEL SONGS. HAPPILY MARRIED TO HIS VERY BEAUTIFUL, DUTIFUL, LOVELY, HELPFUL AND SUPPORTIVE WIFE, REV. HENRIETTA CHINEDUM MATTHEW, WHO DOUBLES AS AN ACOUNTANT AND A SURVEYOR, FROM SOME OF NIGERIA S HIGER INSTITUTIONS. TOGETHER, THEY ARE ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE MINISTRY. BLESSED ALSO WITH TWO WONDERFUL, LOVELY AND LIVELY KIDS, ELYON AND NAHUM.