Administration in RCCG started as far back as when the church began. The appointment of Pastor Michael Olubunmi Ojo as the Assistant General Overseer, Establishment gave flesh to the practice of Administration in the Mission, which resulted in the emergence of the Admin and Personnel Department. Successive Pastors who steered the affairs of the department are Pastor J.A.O. Akindele, Pastor Oluwole Obanure, Pastor Abraham Adewole Haastrup and Pastor Johnson Funso Odesola.
Administrative Officers in the Mission have been operating as Administrative Secretaries since the creation of States (now Provinces). The body was structured nationally in 2002 under the leadership of Pastor J. A. O. Akindele. In November 2002, the first national conference of RCCG Administrators was held where Pastor Nicholas Akinremilekun John emerged the pioneering President of the group. Since then, the evolvement of the department and its impact on the Mission has known no bounds.
In 2006, the re-engineering of the department towards professionalism was promoted, with the appointment of Pastor Oluwole Obanure and Pastor Abraham Adewole Haastrup as Special Assistants to the General Overseer, Administration and Personnel respectively. Pastor Obanure was in charge of administration, particularly that of the Redemption Camp, while Pastor Haastrup managed the human resources of the Mission.
In 2010, the operations of the department were unified with the appointment of Pastor Johnson Funso Odesola as the Special Assistant to the General Overseer, Admin and Personnel. His tenure, under the guidance of the General Overseer, has thus far been characterised by various reforms. Bureaucratic bottlenecks have been eliminated. Information is now successfully disseminated to and from all Parishes of the Mission globally, in a manner that is unprecedented. The Mission can now be proud of a robust database of its personnel and assets. The processes of promotions and transfers in the Mission have now been simplified, and the bar of performance raised.
The department has also been professionalized. Majority of the Admin Officers in the Mission are now members of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria – the body that regulates the practice of Personnel Management in Nigeria.
