Methodist Church Ghana

T. B. Freeman, another missionary, took the Christian message beyond Cape Coast to the Ashanti Empire, to Nigeria, and to other parts of the region to become the father of Methodism in West Africa.

The medical work done by The Methodist Church Ghana has served a vast part of the local community by offering important health services to Ghanaians.

The Methodist Church Ghana also took initiative to remodel and reconstruct a local hospital to broaden its outreach and possibilities for medical care for its community.

[9] The administrative bishop is the Right Reverend Michael Agyakwa Bossman, and the lay president is Mr. Kwesi Atta Antwi.

Some time in the 1990s, the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly translated the English hymns into the now used and locally understood Twi-language version.

Following this change, multiple Methodist churches in Ghana translated the main British hymns into their own native languages, including Ewe and Ga.[11] The Methodist Church was the first to add native songs to praise and worship services in Ghana.

The changes were intended to match the Ghanaian character on display during services, and the new liturgy cover topics such as what the choir would wear and the general setup of buildings.

Many West Africans found this form of Christianity more appealing than the more staid church services favored by older congregations.

A few years after its first national assembly, the Methodist Church Ghana wanted to replicate this charismatic worship service.

With this idea came the Methodist Prayer and Renewal Program (MPRP), a group dedicated to making certain that the charismatic methods touched every area of the church.

Congregation members note that these events bring the gift of healing and there are reports from the National Crusade organized by the Methodist Church Ghana.

[citation needed] Most charismatic meetings were promoted through media advertisements, breaking news reports, the creation of artistic banners, guest shout outs and advertisements on radio stations, the handing out of flyers and pamphlets, and most effectively through word of mouth.

[14] In the 1970s in Ghana, being admitted into university was a difficult proposition due to the small number of schooling options and the extremely low admittance rate, since there were far more applicants than available slots.

In 1974, Dr. John Kofi Agbeti, the first Ghanaian Methodist minister to earn a Ph.D., wanted to create a higher educational establishment that would accept and support all variations of Christianity.

[15] The Methodist Church University, Ghana illustrated its core values and ideals with a seven piece plan: First, to avail a safe educational environment where students could utilize its programs and resources to learn a liberal and technical education to fit the needs of the country.

This school was responsible for educating John Mensah Sarbah, the head of the Aborigines Rights Protection Society, Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford, a leader in the founding of the West African Congress, and other prominent figures in African history.

With the help of the government, for multiple decades The Methodist Church Ghana has contributed health-care services.

The division of Health and Sanitation is under the Methodist Church Ghana Board of Social Responsibility and Rural Development.

Odoi also states that the importance of the medical work is to complete mental, social, and physical well-being.

After expanding the property and adding medically trained professionals, on 24 September 1988 the hospital opened to the public.

Many Sunday schools used Fante-Akan as the primary language for service, so Ga people had to accommodate themselves to Fante preferences.

In an attempt to act impartially, The Methodist Church Ghana assigned expatriate parties to give opinions on the matter.

Many conferences were called to sort out the power struggle and arguments about certain interpretations of the church's constitution arose.