Reverend James McKeown (12 September 1900 – 4 May 1989) was an Irish missionary who spent considerable time in the Gold Coast, now Ghana.
[2] James McKeown arrived in the Gold Coast on 4 March 1937 to begin missionary work as the resident missionary of the Apostolic Church of Bradford after having left the United Kingdom for the then Gold Coast on a boat in February 1937.
He had initially refused to become a missionary owing chiefly to his inadequate formal training.
This eventually culminated in the founding of the Church of Pentecost after Ghana's first President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah advised for a change of name so as to settle disputes that arose as a result of its break away.,[5][6] In early 1982, Mckeown handed over leadership of the Church to a Ghanaian, Rev.
James McKeown died on 4 May 1989, at his home in Ballymena, in Northern Ireland.