Nigerian public debate about the church follows a predictable pattern. Critics cite perceived leadership excesses, financial controversies, and the gap between church wealth and national poverty. Defenders cite spiritual transformation, personal testimonies, and the hand of God.
What almost no participant in this debate does is cite evidence. Specifically, documented evidence of what the church has actually built, funded, trained, treated, or housed.
This is the information asymmetry that Church Archive exists to correct. Not to take a side. To introduce evidence into a debate that has been conducted almost entirely without it.
When the RCCG spent NGN 63 million transporting 56,000 Nigerians to work for free over seven weeks, this was reported in The Punch. When the Jerry Eze Foundation built 18 houses for widows, this was reported in multiple publications. When Covenant University ranked first in West Africa, Times Higher Education published the rankings.
The documentation exists. It simply has not been organised, aggregated, and made accessible in one place. Until now.