Nigerian pastor Jerry Eze led thousands of worshippers at Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium on Saturday, 26 September 2026, as the NSPPD UK Prayer Conference turned one of football’s best-known venues into a day-long centre of prayer and worship. The free event ran from noon until 8 p.m. British Summer Time and had sold out through advance registration.
What happened at Jerry Eze’s Old Trafford prayer conference? Pastor Jerry Eze and Streams of Joy International held the 2026 NSPPD UK Prayer Conference at Old Trafford in Manchester on 26 September. Thousands attended the free, pre-registered gathering, which featured prayer, worship and appearances by Nigerian gospel ministers including Mercy Chinwo and Dunsin Oyekan.
Old Trafford hosts NSPPD UK
The gathering was organised by Eze’s Streams of Joy International around the New Season Prophetic Prayers and Declarations platform, widely known as NSPPD. The official event listing described it as an international prayer conference for believers travelling from across Britain and other countries.
Admission was free, but registration was required because places were limited. The listing was marked sold out by the day of the conference, giving the event a clear measure of public interest without relying on unverified crowd estimates.
Images and clips from inside the stadium circulated online after the programme began. The Business Intelligence Africa reported that worshippers came from Britain and beyond, while Blueprint described the programme as a mix of prayer, worship and fellowship.
Old Trafford is normally associated with Manchester United, but the international-football break left the venue available for the Saturday conference. The setting became central to the event’s online appeal: a global Nigerian prayer movement was gathering in a stadium instantly recognised by football fans across Africa and the diaspora.
Gospel ministers joined Jerry Eze
The programme brought Eze together with several prominent Nigerian gospel musicians. Reports from the venue identified Mercy Chinwo, Dunsin Oyekan, Sunmisola Agbebi and Kaestrings among the ministers who took part.
Their presence widened the story beyond one pastor or one church. Each artist has a substantial audience in African gospel music, and the combination of worship performances, mass prayer and a famous venue helped clips travel across church, entertainment and football communities.
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Jerry Eze Leads Thousands in Prayer at Old Trafford
Sep 27, 2026
Sep 27, 2026
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Nigerian pastor Jerry Eze led thousands of worshippers at Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium on Saturday, 26 September 2026, as the NSPPD UK Prayer Conference turned one of football’s best-known venues into a day-long centre of prayer and worship. The free event ran from noon until 8 p.m. British Summer Time and had sold out through advance registration.
What happened at Jerry Eze’s Old Trafford prayer conference? Pastor Jerry Eze and Streams of Joy International held the 2026 NSPPD UK Prayer Conference at Old Trafford in Manchester on 26 September. Thousands attended the free, pre-registered gathering, which featured prayer, worship and appearances by Nigerian gospel ministers including Mercy Chinwo and Dunsin Oyekan.
Old Trafford hosts NSPPD UK
The gathering was organised by Eze’s Streams of Joy International around the New Season Prophetic Prayers and Declarations platform, widely known as NSPPD. The official event listing described it as an international prayer conference for believers travelling from across Britain and other countries.
Admission was free, but registration was required because places were limited. The listing was marked sold out by the day of the conference, giving the event a clear measure of public interest without relying on unverified crowd estimates.
Images and clips from inside the stadium circulated online after the programme began. The Business Intelligence Africa reported that worshippers came from Britain and beyond, while Blueprint described the programme as a mix of prayer, worship and fellowship.
Old Trafford is normally associated with Manchester United, but the international-football break left the venue available for the Saturday conference. The setting became central to the event’s online appeal: a global Nigerian prayer movement was gathering in a stadium instantly recognised by football fans across Africa and the diaspora.
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Gospel ministers joined Jerry Eze
The programme brought Eze together with several prominent Nigerian gospel musicians. Reports from the venue identified Mercy Chinwo, Dunsin Oyekan, Sunmisola Agbebi and Kaestrings among the ministers who took part.
Their presence widened the story beyond one pastor or one church. Each artist has a substantial audience in African gospel music, and the combination of worship performances, mass prayer and a famous venue helped clips travel across church, entertainment and football communities.
Eze’s official YouTube channel identifies him as the convener of NSPPD and lead pastor of Streams of Joy International. The platform grew through online prayer broadcasts, allowing the ministry to maintain a large international audience before moving into stadium-scale gatherings.
The Old Trafford event also showed the organisational reach of African-led churches in Britain. Nigerian congregations and digital ministries increasingly connect audiences across borders, using livestreams and large in-person meetings to build communities that do not fit neatly within one city or country.
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What is confirmed and what is not
The date, venue, organiser, eight-hour schedule, free admission and sold-out registration status are confirmed by the event listing. Multiple reports also confirm that Eze led the gathering and that the named gospel ministers appeared.
No independently audited attendance total was available by publication time. Old Trafford’s usual football capacity should not be treated as the conference attendance figure, because event layouts, closed sections and production areas can change how many people a venue holds.
Claims of miracles or healings made in a religious setting are matters of faith and personal testimony. They are not presented here as independently verified medical facts.
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Why the event matters
For African audiences, the conference is significant as a diaspora story as much as a religious one. It placed a Nigerian-founded prayer platform, Nigerian gospel performers and a multinational congregation inside one of Britain’s most recognisable public venues.
The event also illustrates how African Christian media now moves between livestreams and physical gatherings. Online participation helped NSPPD reach people outside Nigeria; the Manchester conference converted part of that digital network into an in-person event with international visibility.
The immediate next step is likely to be the release of official recordings, testimonies and attendance information from Streams of Joy International. Until those materials are published, the safest account is the documented one: the conference took place, registration sold out, thousands attended, and a group of leading Nigerian gospel ministers joined Eze at Old Trafford.
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