OUR VISION

To be a vibrant and transformative community where lives are changed, souls are won, and the love of Christ is shared with the world. We envision a church that is passionate about spreading the Gospel, making disciples, and leading individuals into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to faithfully share the message of salvation, equip believers for effective ministry, and empower them to impact their communities. Through outreach, worship, and discipleship, we are committed to winning souls, building a strong faith community, and nurturing spiritual growth in every person we encounter.

About us

OUR HISTORY

The Celestial Church of Christ (CCC) is a Pentecostal church in
the  Aladura  movement, which was founded by Samuel Oshoffa on 29 September
1947 in Porto-Novo, Benin. It has spread from West Africa to countries in Europe,
such as Belgium, France, and the United Kingdom, but a number of its parishes are
located in Nigeria, particularly in Lagos and Ogun State.

Oshoffa was a former carpenter born in Dahomey (now Benin) in 1909. Raised as
a Methodist, he had a divine revelation while lost in a forest on 23 May 1947 during
a solar eclipse. He felt called to pray, to heal the sick, and to raise the
dead. He founded his church in September 1947. Having appointed himself Prophet,
Reverend, Pastor, and Founder, he occupied the highest office of his movement. The
hegemony he exercised on doctrine and discipline issues made succession difficult
when he died in 1985 in Lagos, Nigeria.
 

The CCC was recognized and authorized by the Republic of Dahomey in 1965. From
1976, the church launched an evangelistic campaign in that country, a former colony
of French West Africa, which had become independent in 1960. From the late 1990s,
the CCC church has utilized the internet as a means of evangelization, thus allowing
the many existing branches of the church within the African diaspora in such nations
as the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France and the United States, to maintain
contact with each other and with Nigeria, the nation in which the CCC is currently
most popular.
 

Celestial Church of Christ , Rock of God Parish,  Manchester, United Kingdom is an
offspring of our mother parish and we do adhere to all the commandments and
tenets as stated below.

COMMANDMENTS AND TENETS

1. All true Celestians are expected to keep all the commandments of God as
written in Exodus 20.
2. All true Celestians are not expected to walk late into the night except under
condition.
3. All true Celestians are not expected to commit adultery neither should they
fornicate.
4. All true Celestians are not expected to drink alcohol nor anything that will
intoxicate their body system.
5. All true Celestians are not expected to smoke cigar, cigarette, pipe, tobacco,
marijuana; neither should they get high.

6. All true Celestians are not expected to seek any outside spiritual help, either
from the occultists, herbalists, sorcerers, mind-readers nor anything to do with
their source.
7. All true Celestians are not expected to wear red or black apparel materials.
8. All true Celestians men are not allowed to grow beard.
9. All true Celestians women are not allowed in and around the church premises
during their monthly circle until their eighth day when they shall come in for
proper sanctification.
10. All Celestians are not expected to eat all the forbidden meat; such as Pork,
Ham, Bacon, Snails, Snakes and others as listed in Leviticus.