Awo Yaa helps North Ghana Evangelism

Awo Yaa Agyeman is a young Ghanaian mission-minded Seventh-day Adventist resident of Newark, New Jersey, USA. Since childhood she has always had a strong passion for one thing: that Christianity and Christian education will spread and thrive to rural areas in North Ghana. Her philosophy is that North Ghana should not lag behind and they too must have a piece of the Christian pie.

Growing up at Ashanti New Town, a suburb of Kumasi, Ghana, with her Christian parents, Awo Yaa attended and offered help in many evangelistic meetings to spread Christianity to many areas in central and eastern Ghana. She saw how Christianity is making inroads and gaining adherence mainly in southern and central part of Ghana. She was dissatisfied and felt that someone must do something for North Ghana also. “I felt that something must be done but I did not know how and where to start since I did not have anything I can offer as a teenager.” She resorted to praying daily to God to intervene and “wanted God to do it immediately before the end of the world” so that the people of North Ghana can be saved into the kingdom of God. She said settling in USA was an answer to her prayers to God to do something for North Ghana.

Last year while attending the 2007 North American Ghanaian Seventh-day Adventist camp meeting in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Awo Yaa who is a mother of two and a nursing student heard of a young Ghanaian evangelist whose evangelistic exploits is bringing many into Christianity. Awo Yaa was even more fired up when she was told that this successful evangelist is a native of Wa who is gifted in many ways that has contributed to his evangelistic success in rural unentered areas in North Ghana. Awo Yaa breathed a prayer of thanks to God for this “effectual door opened before her” about North Ghana. A cherished childhood dream of doing something for North Ghana was gradually unfolding and she immediately pledged to God to use her as instrument to help this evangelist to spread the gospel and health education to the rural folks of North Ghana.

Recently while attending a function in New York, Awo Yaa kept her promised to the Lord. She presented a suit case of assorted brand new men’s wear and other valuable items worth several hundreds of dollars to the writer to be sent to Evangelist Dennis Elijah Akabhosa of North Ghana Seventh-day Adventist mission headquarters at Tamale, Ghana. Her message to Evangelist Dennis is “I want to support and strengthen his work for everyone must be a buddy to someone doing something good for the people of North Ghana.”

Commenting on this kind gesture, Pastor IB Boateng of Columbus Ghana SDA Church who worked with Awo Yaa in Ghana in evangelistic meetings in the 1980’s and 1990’s applauded this continuing caring evangelistic attitude of Awo Yaa for the people of North Ghana. He urged that all of us should team up to support her realize her dream of helping evangelize and educate North Ghana.