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The Ministry of Greater Evangelism World Crusade [GEWC] is a Pentecostal mission with its Headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State of Nigeria. Amidst much persecution, opposition and difficulties, the Ministry pioneered indigenous Pentecostal Evangelism in Rivers and Bayelsa States of Nigeria in the early 1970s. The Founder and Pioneer International Director, Apostle Geoffrey Dabibi Numbere (1944-2014) was born again on Sunday, 11 May 1969 at the University of Ife, Ibadan Campus (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife) where he was then a student of Geology. On 3 March 1970, he received the call of God for full-time service through a Vision in which the Lord Jesus Christ took him up to three heavens, and showed him crowds of perishing souls. The Lord commissioned him to go and lift up the faces of those people to look up to Him and be saved. Greater Evangelism World Crusade was founded on Saturday, 9 September 1972 during an all-night prayer meeting in Port Harcourt, the Capi

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