Chamba District Mission House, Two Church Buildings Dedicated
Three church projects in the Chamba District in the Yendi Area of The Church of Pentecost have been dedicated to the glory of God.
The projects, namely the District Mission House, Gungunpa and Amangoase church buildings, were dedicated by the Yendi Area Head, Apostle W. K. Edzorhoho, on Saturday, November 3, 2018.
The sod cutting for the district mission house took place in 2013 by the then Area Head, Apostle Daniel Nii Teiko Tackie, assisted by Pastor Abraham Nana Bamfo Oppong, the then District Minister.
Speaking at the service on the theme, “Remaining in Christ As We Are Being Dedicated To God,” Probationary Overseer James Bariki Yambilla of Wolensi District admonished believers to be patient and responsive to the corrections of God.
He asked believers to always live in the “Now” and should not take pride in past glories. He noted that though Apostles Peter and Judas Iscariot were fed with the very words of Jesus Christ, they were prone to sin. However, he said, Peter fully repented and was saved, but Judas saw destruction because he did not ask God for the forgiveness of his sin.
In a remark, Apostle Edzorhoho commended Pastor Francis Ofori-Atta (Chamba District Minister) and his team for diligently executing the projects. He also praised the effort of all others, including past ministers for the successful completion of the projects.
In attendance were the chief of Chamba and his entourage, the Assemblyman, delegations from sister churches and Pastor Abraham Nana Bamfo Oppong (Resident Minister of Kwadaso Pentecost International Worship Centre).
Report by Frank Somiah-Quaw
Lauren Daigle Brings Worship to Late Night
Lauren Daigle made her late night debut last night as she graced The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon stage performing her song “Look Up Child.”
The Billboard Music Award winner took to the stage Wednesday night to sing the title track from her new hit album which reached number one of the Top Christian Albums chart and number three on the Billboards Top 200 chart.
Daigle’s performance on The Tonight Show was met with much more excitement following her defense, many people excited that a Christian artist is getting mainstream publicity.
One Twitter user wrote, “Lauren Daigle on Jimmy Fallon… BRING ON THE PRAISE!”
Daigle is preparing to go on The Behold Christmas Tour later this month. The tour kicks off in Roanoke, Virginia on November 29.
From His Personal Assistant: An Inside Look at Billy Graham’s Ministry
As a college student, Maury Scobee couldn’t imagine committing his life to working for just one person. Yet, God called him to do just that for the next 40 years, serving as personal assistant for the late evangelist Billy Graham.
Throughout the decades, Scobee spent countless hours with Mr. Graham, attending over 80 Crusades around the world and regularly finding a seat in the kitchen of the Grahams’ log cabin-style house nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He’d do whatever needed to be done, whether it was helping gather items before a Crusade, watching the grandkids or taking care of Mr. Graham during his last years of life.
“You know, you consider it a great joy in your heart that the Lord called you to be such a great part of behind-the-scenes capacity for someone so great as Mr. Graham,” Scobee said.
He not only loved Mr. Graham and his wife, Ruth, personally, but also appreciates how the evangelist stayed focused and driven “to continue to do what God’s will was for his life.”
After Mr. Graham’s passing in February, Franklin Graham asked Scobee to move from his home in Black Mountain, North Carolina, to Charlotte, North Carolina, to work at the Billy Graham Library, which is on the grounds where Mr. and Mrs. Graham are buried.
“Mother and Daddy are down here now,” Franklin told Scobee. “They’re gonna be glad to know that you’re down here with them.”
Since June, 70-year-old Scobee has been working as a ministry ambassador at the Library, constantly reminded of his history with the Grahams.
From Friendship to Future
During his 20s, Scobee attended LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas, switching majors from engineering to business, unsure of what he wanted to do with his life. He eventually got involved in the hotel industry full-time but continued his schooling. During his fifth year, Franklin Graham started attending his school.
Although the two men crossed paths several times a week, Scobee didn’t meet Franklin until his last five minutes on campus at the end of the year. While Scobee was grabbing his mail before heading home, a voice said, “Wait! Aren’t you Maury Scobee?” Scobee turned and realized it was Franklin Graham, who continued, “I certainly hope we can become friends. I’ll be back this fall.”
Franklin later returned to school and would sometimes stop by hotels where Scobee was working or they’d go get pizza. Scobee recognized God had brought the friendship together but didn’t know He would align his future career through it.
Franklin Graham Honors His Father, Billy Graham, on His 100th Birthday
One hundred years ago, the man who would become known as the “evangelist to the world” and “pastor to presidents” was born on a dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina. But in his hometown on Wednesday, Billy Graham was remembered by family members and ordinary people who loved him and his legacy of sharing the Gospel.
More than 800 people lined up outside the Billy Graham Library to meet his son, Franklin Graham; share a quick Billy Graham story; and get a copy of Through My Father’s Eyes autographed. Franklin visited with people and signed copies of the book he wrote to honor his father.
The younger Graham began working on the book after his mother, Ruth Bell Graham, passed away in 2007. He finished it shortly before his father went to heaven on February 21, 2018.
“These are lessons I’ve learned from my father but also my heavenly Father,” Franklin Graham told those gathered. “These are lessons on Scripture that apply to all of us.”
The tribute book, which was released in May, shares personal memories, anecdotes and powerful insights on the impact a godly father can have.
“I think I’ll miss my father all the days of my life,” Franklin Graham added. “There’s not a day that I don’t think about him at some point during that day.
“I ask myself, ‘What would my father say about this? What would my father think about this?’”
Franklin Graham continues his father’s ministry, serving as president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA).
Through My Father’s Eyes is available online at Ruth’s Attic bookstore.
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AVALON CELEBRATION OF HOPE WITH WILL GRAHAM
Will Graham’s Canada Tour came to a close Sunday night in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. More than 6,400 people attended the three-day Avalon Celebration of Hope. Another 21,000 people from 53 countries watched online. Many decided to turn their lives over to Christ during the Canada events.
The first stop on Will’s tour was Oct. 26-27 in Rankin Inlet, a remote town not far from the Arctic Circle. This past weekend, he shared the Gospel in the Avalon Region. The area is known for its friendly people, with a heritage of English, Irish, French and Indigenous ancestry.
Will Graham preached from Luke 23, sharing how Jesus—the King of kings and Lord of lords—hung on the cross between two thieves. “The man in the middle can change your life tonight,” Will said. The moose figurine on the podium was a gift from a young boy to Will, after the evangelist joked that he hadn’t seen any moose, even though the province is heavily populated with them.
“It takes guts to make a decision for Christ. And no one can make it for you,” Will told Sunday’s crowd. “Everything can change tonight when you give everything over to Christ.”
Many flooded the floor of the Mile One Centre in St. John’s to pray for Jesus to be their Lord and Savior.
IDOL WORSHIPER TURNS TO CHRIST
Mr. John Ntebe, an idol worshipper, has given his life to Christ after several failed attempts to eliminate the Kpalbutabu District Minister of The Church of Pentecost, Pastor McCarthy Amevade Coffie, and his wife, Sandra. According to him, when the minister and his wife arrived in the town, he gave them a 6-month ultimatum to pack their belongings and leave or lose their lives.
“I felt that their arrival in the town would undermine his authority and influence as the spiritual leader and opinion leader of the Kpalbutabu community,” he said.
John, therefore, took the couple to other fetishes in Kukpalgu, Zabzugu, Kintampo and other places, all in an attempt to humiliate them publicly and eliminate them, but without success. Mr. Ntebe said that his persistence was further dealt a major blow when his wife gave her life to Christ and joined the Church. That notwithstanding, he still saw it as an opportunity to attack the pastor through his wife by using her to sow seeds of confusion in the Church and the Mission House without her knowledge.
“I went for juju (charm) to cause my wife to steal from the Mission House and to be disgraced so that she would stop attending the church.
I also went for a money ritual to make me one of the great spiritualists in the Kpalbutabu town and its environs to enable me conquer the territory,” he said.
Unfortunately for him, instead of taking the life of Pastor Coffie, John rather fell sick and resorted to herbal medicine for treatment. After there was no improvement in his condition, John Ntebe finally gave up and rushed to the Mission House for assistance. He knelt down before Pastor Coffie and began to confess all he had done.
Pastor Coffie, together with Elder Joshua Semador, who had visited the minister at the Mission House, prayed for Mr Ntebe and led him to receive Christ. John Ntebe brought his entire household to receive Christ and were baptized a week later.
To the glory of God, the Ntebes are now active members of the Church.
By: Pastor David Arthur
2018 International Day of Prayer
November 4 kicked off the 2018 International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) event which implores Christians around the world to pray for their persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ.
The event, which takes place on the first and second Sundays in November each year – this year being the 4th and 11th – was started in 1996 by the World Evangelical Alliance’s Religious Liberty Commission.
According to Open Doors USA, the purpose of the IDOP is for “Christians throughout the free world [to] band together in solidarity with believers who live out their faith in the face of harassment, attacks, false imprisonment and even death.”
This year’s theme is “Listen to Their Cry,” and it aims at giving persecuted Christians a platform to share their stories from countries such as North Korea, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan where hundreds, if not thousands of Christians are persecuted annually.
A Christian from Afghanistan is quoted in the video as saying, “I am so afraid; I believe in Jesus now, and my wife also but I still go to the mosque to pray five times a day.”
A Christian woman from North Korea shared her experience in a labor camp with the outlet saying, “Every day was as if God was pouring out all ten plagues on us simultaneously. That’s how hard it was. But God also comforted me. Every Sunday we would gather in the toilets and pray.”
More than 6,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria this year alone. In Pakistan, 700 Christian women or girls are being kidnapped and pressured to convert each year.
LIGHT 2018 – PASTORS AND LEADERS CONFERENCE
The LIGHT 2018 – Pastors and Leaders Conference has ended in Manila, Philippines. It was hosted by Ps David Sumrall and it was held at the Cathedral of Praise from Wednesday 31st October to Sunday 4th November 2018.
The conference was to bring growth and speak life into the ministries of a new generation of preachers. It was to help grow local churches with Bible based teachings.
There were also practical Track Sessions which focused on Effective and Sustainable Evangelism, First 90 Days – Starting a Church, The Team that Works – Establishing your Leadership Team, Church, Creativity and Social Media among others.
Speakers for the Conference included Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, Rev John Avanzini and the host, Ps David Sumrall.
Investiture Of Very Rev. Prof. Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu As President Of Trinity Theological Seminary
A formal ceremony has been marked to confer the authority and symbols of office of the president of The Trinity Theological Seminary to the Very Rev Prof. Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu. The investiture ceremony took place at the Trinity Theological Seminary- Legon in Accra.
The principal officiant for the ceremony was the Rt. Rev Hillard Dela Dogbe (PhD) who is the Presiding Bishop of Western West Africa Conference of The AME Zion church. Also, to grace the occasion was the Most Rev. Dr. Paul Kwabena Boafo, The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, The Immediate Past Presiding Bishop, Most Rev. Titus Kofi Awotwi Pratt, The Administrative Bishop, Rt. Rev. Michael Agyakwa Bossman, General Directors and Directors, Senior Lecturers of the Seminary, Invited guests and the Special Guest of Honour, Dr. Kofi Sarpong, the CEO of Ghana Petroleum Company.
In view of the provisions outlined in the statutes and deeds of agreement of the Trinity theological seminary-Legon, Prof. Asamoah-Gyadu took his vows publicly followed by the investiture prayer. Presentation of symbols of office included bible, stole, statutes and deeds which represents the symbolic token of his office as President of trinity theological seminary.
Presentations and fraternal greetings came in from 1986-year group of Trinity, Asbury Dunwell Church, International Scholars among others.
The very Rev prof. Asamoah-Gyadu in his response, assured that he will provide leadership that will help the Seminary to accomplish the aims and objectives for which it was set up. The wife of prof. Asamoah Gyadu, Mrs Theodora Asamoah-Gyadu together with Patrick Addaquay on the organ, thrilled the audience with sensational psalms.
As the 13th President of the seminar, prof. Asamoah-Gyadu will be in office as the president, for the next 6 years.
