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The Methodist Church Ghana came into existence as a result of the missionary activities of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, inaugurated with the arrival of Joseph Rhodes Dunwell to the Gold Coast (Ghana) in 1835. Like the mother church, the Methodist Church in Ghana was established by people of Anglican background. [12]
The Basel Mission, on the other hand, saw in him only a “big fetish man” with a thin veneer of Christianity.” [1] Other scholars of mission history posit that Oppong was “a real prophet cast in the mould of Elijah or John the Baptist and called ‘to break the power of fetishism in Ghana and to alter fundamentally the history of Ashanti ...
Johannes Zimmermann (2 March 1825 – 13 December 1876) was a missionary, clergyman, translator, philologist and ethnolinguist of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society of Switzerland, who translated the entire Bible into the Ga language of the Ga-Dangme people of southeastern Ghana and wrote a Ga dictionary and grammar book.
Walter Henry Medhurst – revised versions of the Bible for his mission in China Luella Miner - missionary in China, 1887 to 1935 Robert Moffat – Scottish missionary to Africa
Lockyer, Herbert, All the men of the Bible, Zondervan Publishing House (Grand Rapids, Michigan), 1958; Lockyer, Herbert, All the women of the Bible, Zondervan Publishing 1988, ISBN 0-310-28151-2; Lockyer, Herbert, All the Divine Names and Titles in the Bible, Zondervan Publishing 1988, ISBN 0-310-28041-9; Tischler, Nancy M.,
During the first decade of the Ahmadiyya movement in modern-day Ghana, the Ahmadiyya mission had only a single Indian missionary at any one time, supported by a Fante interpreter. [15] By 1946, there were up to three Indian missionaries and five West African missionaries, and four teachers in the country. [ 15 ]
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church Ghana was founded by German missionaries on 14 November 1847 in Peki. [1] These missionaries from the North German Mission Society (Norddeutsche Mission, Bremen), together with the Basel Mission in 1847, started work among the Ewe people in what is now the Volta Region of Ghana.
The Presbyterian Church of Ghana was established in 1828 and formalised partnership (Reg No. ACB 146/88) with the then government of Gold Coast now the Republic of Ghana in 1932 to contribute to the Spiritual and socio-economic development of the citizenry of Ghana. To this end, the Church established six (6) Agricultural Service stations in ...