The hope of some members and followers of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) that Prophet Racine Bousso would return to the megachurch appears to have faded as the Senegalese’s absence has stretched to three months.
Racine, one of the wisemen mentored by SCOAN founder the late Prophet TB Joshua, was last seen in the church in January.
He has not attended Sunday service or any other programme at the church’s headquarters in Lagos since January 9.
No sooner had QEDTV reported his absence on January 10 than it was revealed that he was planning to get married to fellow Joshua disciple Evangelist Ruth Tonge on February 14.
News of the wedding was greeted with excitement by SCOAN members all over the world. Although Ruth had left the church after Joshua’s burial in July 2021, Racine stayed behind to help Joshua’s widow Evelyn Joshua stabilize the church after the latter succeeded her husband as leader in September.
Racine’s decision to stay back while other senior members left helped steady the ship under Evelyn’s leadership.
The Senegalese even delivered the Sunday sermon on Boxing Day and joined Evelyn in prayer ministration until his absence on January 9.
A few days before their wedding which took place in the UK on Valentine’s Day, Racine and Ruth revealed in a message posted on their website that they were moving on from SCOAN.
According to them, the driving force that brought them to TB Joshua and kept them with the late televangelist through trial, test and temptation was releasing them into their divine future.
Parts of the message on their website read: “It was this driving force that brought us individually to Prophet TB Joshua all those years ago, a driving force that kept us with him through every trial, every test, every temptation, and the same driving force that is with us now, releasing us into our divine future.”
Many SCOAN followers were heartbroken that Racine was leaving the church he helped build into a global institution and hoped he would come back.
But two months after his marriage to Ruth, Racine has shown no sign of going back to SCOAN.
Instead, the couple have updated their website and stated that they are currently in retreat before God in prayers.
They also debunked reports that they have started their own ministry.
