Peace Chapel International, Ghana

GHANA Visit, August 2005

	Bishop Bright Michael Adofoh and Jacquie outside the main entrance of the Peace Chapel in Accra. This church seats over 500 people and has a membership of over 3000. There are several services on every day of the week and the church (unusually) has its own generator so that it can cope with the frequent power cuts
This was the first school visited in the bush about 120 miles from Accra. With about 120 pupils it is one of the smaller schools founded and funded by Peace Chapel. Without these schools there would be no education at all for the children. Here they are seen holding up pencils which Jacquie took with her. Most children have to share a pencil between a whole class. Blackboards and chalk are the main teaching aids.
	This is a small chapel built in the village of Bomso which also doubles as a classroom. It is unusual in that it has four walls and a roof.
Most of the chapels built recently have open sides, dirt floors and tin roofs like this one at Adon Krono about 15 miles from Accra. While Keith preached here one night in almost total darkness Jacquie sat with her feet on an upturned washing up bowl (which was also the collection dish so that passing snakes would not get involved with her feet!
	This man (below) is the Rev'd Kwame Daapah, dressed in his Ghanian clothes. He is a lecturer at the Bible College and an excellent interpreter, so that Keith could preach and the people could hear what was being said in 'Twi' the language spoken by over 45% of Ghanaians.
On the Saturday morning Keith preached on Radio Peace FM to an audience of over 5 million people. Later in the day 7 people came to Peace Chapel for counsel having been converted during the broadcast. Ghana - although desperately poor in a hugely Christian country and there are endless opportunities for evangelism in any media.
	One of the highlights was the Graduation of the Bible College Students. Here are Keith and Jacquie with Rev'd Kwame Daapah and Rev'd Dr. Bright Michael Adofoh before the ceremony which was televised and later broadcast on national TV. The viewing audience numbers about 12 million.
Keith was the guest speaker at the Graduation Ceremony.
	Jacquie handed out the certificates to the graduating students.
The following Sunday morning Keith preached to a congregation of over 500 and it was standing room only at the back - but it's like that every Sunday...
	On the Sunday afternoon we had a 120 mile dash on very bad roads to Akim Abodom a small village with a new church where Keith assisted in the ordinations service of the new pastor.
The newly ordained pastor - Rev'd Eginim Boateng, proving that at 72 years of age it is never too late to be in the service of the Kingdom!
	Many parts of Ghana are stunningly beautiful - this is the coast at the town of El Mina. notorious for it's fort from which hundreds of thousands of African people were transported to America and Europe to be sold as slaves.
And this is the room in the castle known as the 'room of no return' from where African men women and children would be taken to the boats waiting at the quay. Visitors leave wreaths here... a plaque on the castle wall reads "May humanity never again perpetrate such injustice against humanity - we the living vow to uphold this"
	And this is the last bush chapel we visited before we left. To get back to the car we had to walk to the other side of the village being careful to avoid open sewers which criss-cross the area.
Keith preached 13 times in 6 days - often in darkness and late at night. But the people were amazing - so friendly, courteous and generous. We owe them a great deal and like it or not it is true to say that Ghana IS a Christian country and we could learn much from their commitment enthusiasm and great love for the Saviour.

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