Moses, after leading the Israelites for 40 years, passed on the Baton to Joshua. Today we share the story of John Prince Yevu also passing the Baton to Nicholas Owusu Sekyere.
In the year 2008, Prince was sent to the Afram Plains to be a witness of our Lord Jesus. After 15 years of ministry, he started four churches at Ahiatroga, Aframso, Agbokpakorpe and Mame Krobo. Nearly 700 souls were baptized and discipled. Several of these people have matured to become leaders in the local churches. Today, he is proud to quote the words of apostle Paul in saying: ….7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.”
He adds: To God be all the glory for the great things He has accomplished through my ministry to advance His Kingdom upon the earth. This is the doing of the Lord and indeed it is marvelous in our sight! Thank you to GCM for the opportunity to serve. Thanks to my sponsoring churches and to all those who made this fifteen-year journey possible and fruitful through your consistent giving, encouragement and prayer support, God richly bless you.
Nicholas on the other hand is highly enthused about the opportunity to serve in the Aram Plains. He and his family accepted the call and moved to live among the people of Afram Plains. Kindly pray for both John and Nicholas in this transition period as well as the guidance of God in the continuity of the evangelists works.
Yevu (on far right) and Nicholas and his family.
Dam Water Spillage Catastrophy
Few weeks ago, the main dam in Ghana at Akosombo was spilled due to excess water from relentless rains in Burkina Faso. Downstream, over 50,000 people have been affected. Several communities have been submerged, people have lost their homes and all their properties. 1000s of acres of farmland have been submerged.
Although the government and some individuals have come in to support the victims, it has been inadequate as many of the victims remain homeless and hopeless. There is an urgent need to provide food, water, clothing, healthcare, and temporal accommodation.
Kindly pray for God to provide the needs of these brothers and sisters in crisis. To you our faithful donors, we ask that you prayerfully consider what you might be able to do and then share this with any friends who may have a heart for helping in this disaster.
Praise God for over 50 people who were baptized in October.
Thank God for a successful feasibility study done at Fumsi where the Sisala Pasaal People Group are located. Pray for funds to start new work among the Sisala Pasaal ($60,000 needed, $31,000 raised).
SEPTEMBER 2023 MONTHLY REPORTS
Pastor Paul Tevi
We give thanks to God for our lives.
Despite the pressure in her family Samantha (a church member) was able to convince her 2 sisters to follow her the church. I am looking forward to baptizing them very soon.
Prayer request: I will be going to the difficult ground where Christian missionaries are under threat; pray for my safety.
May God continue to bless and keep all of us.
Pastor Bismark Kassatta
We send you greetings from Ntrubo area Churches.
The grace of God is keeping the church in the area well.
We show appreciation to God for his blessings. This is as a result of the program we are embarking on dubbed “Operation one member one soul”:
Baptism:
As a result of the above program, we have had about 26 new souls; 13 of which were baptized early this year. The other 13 received their baptism this month.
We request you to pray for the newly born Christians to remain under God's grace.
We request you to pray for the new leaders that were ordained into the Ntrubo Area Churches as elders, deacons and deaconesses to remain committed to the work of God.
We also request your prayer support for the church in the Ntrubo area to meet our target for the soul winning.
My family and I wish to request for good drinking water since the rains are going to end soon, we will have to be buying water every day; we are aware there is no money and we pray for financial doors to open.
We also request you to pray for the church in the Ntrubo area to remain focused on God because there are false prophets who are working seriously to scatter the flock of God through their devious ways.
We appreciate your commitment to the work of God and may He bless you beyond measure.
Pastor Samuel Dzobo
May the grace and peace of God be multiplied unto us all.
I bring you greetings from the Borae No.2 District Pistis Christian Churches. By the mercies and favor of God, the pastors, elders and members in the Pistis family in the district are all doing well.
Through the intervention of God, the following activities were very successful across the district:
REVIVALS
1. The Okpalama Attafiem Zone Revival: These churches are found across the Volta River on an island and made up of the following assemblies: Otisu, Amuzukope, Okpalama and Attafiem. These branches embarked on a two-day revival to recognize and appreciate the hard work of the district Pastor (Pastor Samuel Dzobo) and his retirement coming on in the month of December 2023. By the grace of God this program was very successful.
2. Ayigbe Akura Zone end of month zonal joint service revival: The Ayigbe Akura Zone made up of the following branches: Mala, Wonando, Ayigbe Akura and Bakam.
These branches meet at the end of every month. In their last month’s meeting, the zone leaders planned to raise funds to purchase a set of drums for zonal programs. The targeted amount to be raised was GHS 3,200. By the grace and the intervention of God almighty the program was very successful and the target amount was realized.
PROJECTS
1. Borae Central Church building project: The project is still ongoing and hasn’t been completed yet. The project is left with plastering with cement, fixing of windows, flooring with tiles and painting.
2. Wonando church building project: The project began early this year but due to cracks on the building, the church feared to work on it. The leaders decided to reconstruct a new church building. The project has reached plastering and flooring stage.
FUNERAL/ BURIALS
1. A dedicated member at Jato Akura Assembly named Madam Madi Comfort, who served at Borae Central Church and later migrated to Jato Akura died on the 18th of September 2023 and was buried on the 19th of September 2023.
By the grace of God, the burial service for the deceased was very successful.
PRAYER REQUEST
We need your prayers that the projects at hand; that is the Borae Central Church building project and the Wonando branch project will be brought to completion.
Pastor Yeboah Ernest Junior – Yeshua Love Christian Church, Garu
We continue to praise God for His goodness and love toward us.
Teaching the word, discipleship, evangelism and other church service activities are still ongoing. We have embarked on house-to-house evangelism to teach the salvation grace of God in Christ Jesus to win souls for Christ Jesus.
We continue to pray that our good Lord Jesus Christ will add new souls to His Church as we continue evangelism activities every month. We humbly ask you to support us in prayer to win souls to His Church.
Ernest Nyador – Akplale Church
The Lord has protected and provided for my family and ministry throughout August.
Church activities are ongoing every Sunday. Some few baptisms were made as well.
By the Grace of God, we have been able to move into our new house. Though, not fully completed, but we are enjoying it for now while we do the final touches.
I humbly request for good health for my family and church members.
Glory be to God.
Pastor Sampson Darko
I praise the name of the Lord for his faithfulness and protection upon my family and the church as a whole. I praise God for the lives of our partners, sponsors, and management, especially for their selfless services to the staff.
I hosted Youth Camp in the Akyode Area 2023.We ordained 4 elders, 5 deacons and 4 deaconesses with two marriages. Pastor Nicholas was ordained.
We are grateful to God for the successful programs. The attached are the pictures from said events.
Pastor David Addy Akpesey – Transformation Christian Church, Awutu Papaase
Thank and praise God for guiding and empowering the Transformation Christian Church to start a new fellowship at Keaobondzie, a community not too far from Awutu Papaase.
We started regular Sunday morning service in September, 2023.
Kindly pray for our evangelism team for their hard work and sacrifice in the establishment of this new fellowship.
Also pray for the new fellowship to be grounded in the Holy Spirit and the Word of God and pray for the new souls to remain strong and faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you.
Pastor Paul Akuteye
I am very much excited that we are in the last quarter of the year 2023.
I am very grateful to God that we had a smooth journey for the past eight months. Now we are in the nineth month. To God be all the glory.
We celebrated six baby naming ceremonies. The families brought a lot of visitors that really made the month a memorable one.
We have been having a lot of rainfalls in the month of September, but all our services – both the mornings and the evenings were not disturbed.
The good news is that our services in the evening is now better than the morning celebrations in terms of numbers. Our members defy the rains and come in their numbers to pray on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Our time for Sunday morning services has changed from 9:00am to 8:00am. By 11:30 am church service is over. Indeed, God is doing something new this year 2023.
There is a great change after the Easter Convention in Kintampo.
I request for your prayer support for a financial breakthrough for all the sponsors, pastors, elders, and the church workers.
May the few months left in the year 2023 bring you much blessings. We really appreciate your partnership.
Pastor Kingsly Nyinam
We praise God Almighty for seeing us through the month of September.
The regular church service and activities were all carried out.
No baptisms were recorded in this month.
We are thankful to God for our second daughter Benedicta who wrote her BECE this year. Continue to pray for her and all others who sat for this examination.
Pray for the growth of the church both spiritually and numerically.
Pastor Francis Addae
Greetings from Salaga to you all. By the grace of God, we are doing well.
In the month of September, The Lord provided all our needs and in my travels despite the challenges.
We are very grateful to the Lord and continue to ask for his presence and protection over my family.
By his grace a couple (pictured below) gave their lives to God and were baptized into Christ; Kindly pray for their faith to grow.
To ensure doing good in his vineyard, we are asking FAME to support us to achieve these:
1. A motorcycle to visit the communities to discharge our duties.
2. Aid of Salaga Temple Building
3 Helping our churches who have their services under tress to have at least one pavilion.
4. May God continue to bless our donors and management for the vision they have to improve Fame facilities.
May God bless all the Staff both the health providers and evangelists.
Pastor John Kpormegbe
I trust you and families are doing well. Please, join me thank God for this successful month. Our profound gratitude to all partners, donors and sponsors both in Ghana and abroad for their support and prayers. Likewise, we continue to appreciate FAME Ghana and Plainfield Christian Church for their hard work.
Thanksgiving
Banda Christian Churches wish to thank God and you who have praying for us to have a fruitful month. We have received more than three newborn babies; glory be to God.
Challenges
The Churches have a major challenge of which is a meeting place. During the raining season, several of the churches are unable to meet. Currently, Our priority is to build one pavilion for the Sunday School Children since, they are our future leaders. For this reason, the women fellowship is trying to raise funds in the middle of the month of October to have this Pavilion built for our children. The timeline to finish this project is before the end of November. The target for this important project is about Ghc 3,000.00.
Prayer Requests
We need your prayer support to help this agenda of helping to irradicate churches under trees. It is my hope and prayer to build the Sunday School Pavilion. If you are touched and want to join this project, God bless you as you think and pray about this.
Secondly, we need your prayer support for our new friends - Jama Nkwanta Church and Banda Buya, to be able to grow in truth and in faith. Several people in the community are still into idolatry and believe in the traditional way.
Thank you very much and may the good Lord bless us all.
Ps Daniel Liwamor
To God be the glory for the month of September is over; in spite of the challenges, we have been through, His grace has covered us throughout the year.
Church activities have slowed down due to the nature of the rains. Several Churches are unable to meet whenever it rains. There is a dire need for pavilions.
Please pray for a new motorcycle. Each time some parts of my motorcycle get damaged, it takes about three to six months to be repaired because the parts are rare. I'm therefore appealing to management to raise funds to have it replaced.
Pastor Felix Nsejamese
We continue to give thanks to God for the great things he has done.
We went to Agbajokura on a house-to-house evangelization and the hand of God was moved in Agbajokura.
It was through the clinic I followed up evangelization and sister Charity Punala give her life to Jesus; we started home meeting at her house.
John Newman Peni – Nkwanta/ Adele
PRAISES
We had Nkwanta Municipal Youth Convention at Keri in the Achode Area. The theme of the convention was “Waiting Upon The Lord”. The youth were put in groups to study the Word of God on the theme stated. In addition to praising God with singing and dancing, there was a film show, games and finally a Bible quiz. At the convention, one pastor was ordained and new elders, deacons and deaconesses were also ordained by Pastor Samuel Dzobo. This convention was a remarkable one in the municipality. To God be the glory.
PRAYER REQUESTS
We want to go to Dapaa in the Kadjebi District to survey the area to plant a church. Pray that God will open the way for us and lead us to one who will receive us.
September Chaplain's Reports
Pastor Paul
We thank God for the month of September. For his grace and strong hand upon the clinic and church.
We thank God also for the smooth change in the clinic.
We are continuing our core mandate to pray, to preach and to assist the sick.
We are hoping for another gracious month of October with a significant spiritual impact in the lives of people attending the clinic.
The life of this child was saved in the clinic. He had severe malaria and was dying in the house when I went there for home visitation. After a prayer and assessing the situation, I took them to the clinic. Thank God, he is alive today.
Pastor Felix Nsejamese
Glory be to God for the wonderful things he has done in the clinic.
All clinicals activities are ongoing.
Jacob from Nkpani visited FAME Clinic with a severe cough. By the grace of God through prayer and medicine he was healed.
Please continue to support us in prayers.
Pastor Yeboah Ernest Jnr – Fame Clinic, Benwoko
God continues to show his kindness and love towards the staff of Fame Clinic Benwoko.
We appreciate the goodness of God and praise Him for the lives on earth.
Devotional and clinical activities are still ongoing. Staff continue to work as team, allowing kindness, compassion and love of Jesus Christ to flow towards clients through clinical and spiritual care.
We appreciate the continuous supply of medicines and other clients’ items to work with. God continue to bless Fame Ghana Management team and our donor partners for helping to spread the fame of Jesus Christ at Benwoko its and surrounding communities through Fame Clinic, Benwoko.