Easter Weekend Revival!

The highlight of this year for me was certainly the Easter weekend.

Good Friday - We had a joint service in Takoradi with our three churches; Takoradi, Sekondi, and Shama. I was especially blessed to see the small van coming from Shama in the evening with more than 20 people coming to hear the Word of God along with our brothers and sisters from Sekondi as we had a great time in the word and fellowship.

Saturday - We did an evangelical outreach in Shama with the presentation of the movie “ The Passion of Christ” . Hundreds of people came to stand and to watch the sufferings of Christ before the crucifixion. Many received Christ in their hearts and several new people are now coming to church because of this outreach.

It is a blessing to see what started as an “outreach” develop into the Greater Grace Church of Shama! Abeiku received his “License to Preach” (the first step in ordination) this past January at the convention in Ashaiman. He is doing great and this guy has a Pastor’s heart, it is wonderful to be going out on outreach with him and watch him share the Word with people, taking his time, answering questions and sitting where they sit. Gilbert (one of the faithful young men in Bible College) and Renee Beland our faithful Canadian missionary help tremendously on the team.

Easter Sunday - We had a joint service in Takoradi again, you should have been there to watch us wave our white handkerchiefs for the joy we had to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord. Yes there is the crucifixion, but Sunday is coming… Church service was followed by food, games, fun, joy, laughter and great fellowship. We did tug-of-peace, musical chairs, dancing contest for the younger ones and for the ladies. But the funniest of all was biting the apple as it was hung on a thread. Some of the men even with their large mouths, no matter how hard they tried, squeezing their faces with real intentions to get at the fruit, could not even take a tiny bite at that apple…and it was so funny to watch them try in all kinds of ways. I am still laughing when I think about it.

Easter would not be Easter in Ghana without a football match which took place on “Easter Monday” with the Shama church against the Takoradi church. We all lost our voices cheering for each of our team. And joy of joy, not only Christ resurrected that weekend but the team from Shama also won the football match. There was jubilation in my heart. Takoradi will certainly call for another match…this is therefore to be continued…

Great things have been happening here in Takoradi, great things are now in the furnace of transformation and great plans are in the making for the near future.

Please pray with us as we continue to walk with Him receiving His grace on a moment by moment basis.

Pastor Henry Nkrumah