Soloists
This overview comprises prominent singers who serve self-contained Pentecostal congregations and para-church organizations. These congregations and organisations are generally not members of the Evangelical Churches Fellowship of Ethiopia, but can mostly be categorised as prophetic Pentecostalism. Some of them share traits of the New Apostolic Reformation and/ or the Word of Faith Movement.
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Binyam Wale (Pastor; Faith Bible Int’l [FBI] Church )
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Dawit Molalegn (Bishop; Faith Bible Int’l [FBI] Church [FBI])
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Elias Abite (Prophet; Glory of Zion Int’l Ministries [Baltimore])
Endale Woldegiorgis (Pastor; Faith Bible Int’l [FBI] Church)
Eyu Chufa (Prophet; Christ Army Int’l Church)
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Suraphel Demissie (Prophet; Presence of God Int’l Church)
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Tibebu Workiye (Pastor; Paul Christ’s Gospel Int’l Church)
Tefera Wolde Maryam (Pastor; Berea Int’l Church), * 1970
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Yohannes Girma (Apostle) [Amharic & Hadiyya]
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Zenebech Gessesse (Pastor; Jesus the Spring of Life Int’l Church [JSL])
Background information
There are several self-contained Pentecostal congregations and para-church organizations that are not lead by gospel singers but regularly offer a platform to guest singers.
These include TV ministries and congregations such as:
City of Refuge Church aka YouGo Church (Addis Ababa)
Global Mercy of God Church (Nekemte)
Further reading
Baker, Yvie Ruth. “From Peter Wagner to Bill Johnson: The history and epistemology of the ‘New Apostolic Reformation’ “. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Otago (New Zealand), 2022. [View online]
Heuser, Andreas, ed. Pastures of Plenty: Tracing Religio-scapes of Prosperity Gospel in Africa and Beyond. Frankfurt/M. etc.: P. Lang, 2015. [Table of Content]
Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon et al., eds. Christological Paradigm Shifts in Prophetic Pentecostalism in South Africa. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. [Google Books]
Stenhammar, Mikael. The Worldview of the Word of Faith Movement: Eden Redeemed. London, etc.: T&T Clark, 2022. [Google Books]
Yoseph Yisma. The Word of Faith Movement in Ethiopia: Genesis and Growth. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2021. [M.A. thesis at the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology in Addis Ababa; amazon.com]
Internet Resources
Critical introduction to the Word of Faith Movement in Ethiopia by Kingdom Radio, 2020 (Zelalem Mengistu et al.):
» Visit Mikael Stenhammer’s website
(videos, podcasts and articles on how to navigate
the Word of Faith Movement worldview)