The Greatest Miracle

“A little one shall become a thousand, a small one a strong nation “ words taken from Isaiah 60:22 , describes in no better way the  24-year journey of the ministry of Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy and the Kingdom of Jesus Christ The Name Above Every Name.

This worldwide phenomenon, which now brings a revolutionary message of salvation and restoration to 106 countries and counts 6 million among those who have received this message, started with just one man, who at the height of a promising career in his denomination left to follow a calling that not even he understood at first.

Alone, for five years, with only the voice of Almighty Father, in a journey similar to that of Moses 40-year sojourn in the desert and Paul the Apostle’s 17 year hiatus in the wilderness, he went through a change and restoration which he would still be preaching to this day: genuine repentance, involving the surrender of his own will, to follow the will of the Almighty Father and the revelation that such obedience would lead one to become a Son of God, as Adam was, before his disobedience and as the Begotten Son, Jesus Christ was, when he let the cup pass from Him to obey the Father’s will and be crucified on Calvary.

15 people followed him, as he started the Kingdom with this revolutionary message, at the heart of Davao City in September 1, 1985, when killings were rampant and Davao was known as Nicaragdao, in reference to the disappearances  and killings in Nicaragua. His preaching hit the hearts of those who wanted their lives to change and the root of disobedience to the will of God removed.

The story of Pastor Apollo eating bananas for five years is something of a living myth in the kingdom, but it is one that holds every ounce of truth, testified still by  those who have remain faithful in following the calling of the Almighty Father to give their lives. Like the Kingdom’s International Administrator, Ingrid Canada, who has been in the Kingdom for 29 years, and the Kingdom’s administrator in the United States, Teresita Dandan, who has likewise been in the Kingdom for 30 years.

From Davao City, the Kingdom gained ground, as it began to establish kingdom light congregations all over Mindanao, then Manila and then the rest of Luzon and then the Visayas. For several years, Pastor Apollo toured city after city tirelessly, from Mindanao to the Visayas to Luzon, proclaiming the special commission given to him by the Almighty in Isaiah 61:1 “The Spirit of the Lord GOD [is] upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to [them that are] bound.”

This commission has been facilitated by the Kingdom’s use of worldwide broadcast satellite technology. From a single VHS camera in 1991 which took Pastor’s programs in IBC 13, the ACQ-Kingdom Broadcasting Network, jumped in 2003 to worldwide proportions as it began to air all over Asia and North And South America. A year later ACQ-KBN’s footprints in Europe, Africa and the Middle East were cast and ACQ-KBN became the only Philippine Network broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to 106 countries, in particular 1, 185 cities, all over the world. It now as its own media arm, Sonshine Media Network International – composed of two free to air television stations, Sonshine TV 39 Manila, and Sonshine TV 43 in Davao;  2 newspapers, Pinas, an internationally circulated weekly newspaper for Filipinos, and Sikat, a commercial travel weekly; 17 Sonshine Radio Stations broadcasting from major cities in the Philippines, the main one of which, DZAR 1026 Manila, is heard on internet radio via sonshine radio.com and dxaq.com.

The worldwide broadcast of Pastor Apollo’s message of repentance has awakened a Christian world that has been waiting for the coming of the Kingdom of God here on earth and a message that would not only ring genuine change, but one that is truly lived and reflected in the lives of not only Pastor Apollo, but those who have received his message of repentance.

Since the broadcast began, the kingdom’s ranks have swelled in the United States –kingdom light congregations now flourish in 35 states; in Canada, where the kingdom has conquered 30 major cities scattered in 8 provinces; in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kenya,  United Kingdom, particularly in England, Scotland and Ireland, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Norway, Denmark, Swizerland, Netherlands, France, Greece, Hungary.  All these get regular visits from Pastor Apollo and his musicians and television crew, as he sweeps these countries with regular concert tours.

The outward expansion in international shores has included the inclusion of sprawling kingdom compounds and worship centers in the kingdom’s international head offices: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver and Toronto, Dubai, Hong Kong.