The Anglican Adam Preaching Society is an interdenominational evangelical Christian movement based in Nigeria,[1] which was founded by an evangelist of the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, the late Cornelius Adam Igbudu who hailed from Araya in Isokoland.
official website, the evangelical group "is an interdenominational preaching society under the umbrella of the Anglican Communion.
It stands for professional soul winning and being run by self-sacrifice and freewill donations".
[3] Professor Peter Palmer Ekeh, Founder of Urhobo Historical Society, later wrote in his book: History of the Urhobo People of Niger Delta, that "The evangelical movement of Adam's Anglican Preaching Society (A.A.P.S.
[4] History has it that Cornelius Adam Igbudu was born in 1914 in a rustic village of Araya to Isoko pagan parents who then practised African indigenous religion,[5] and prior to his conversion to Christianity in 1927,[6] he was part of a traditional dance group in Uzere in Isokoland.
[7] At that time when the style of worship and the mode of music in the mission churches were predominantly influenced by western civilization, which left many Africans with the feeling of spiritual alienation, Cornelius Adam Igbudu came into the scene and caused a change of practice by introducing indigenous Isoko music to the mission churches.
[5] It earned Igbudu a commendation from E. Onosemuode, who called him "a great musical reformer among Isoko and Urhobo Christians".
[6] However, other notable people of Isoko and Urhobo extractions, who seemed "to have followed after the steps of the pioneers", later included Evi Edna Ogholi and Kefee Obareki Don Momoh.
evangelical movement's sustained musical influence in the Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, was particularly evident in the rendition of "entertainment songs by the Anglican Adam Preaching Society (AAPS) band" during a church service held in commemoration of Bishop Agori Iwe who died on July 9, 1979.