His intense interest in a magazine called The Sword of the Spirit, published through correspondence, with its editor, Pastor A. Clark, founder of the Faith Tabernacle Church, Philadelphia led him into receiving healing from a chronic stomach disorder and guinea worm infestation miraculously through prayer, a new experience from his Presbyterian upbringing.
[2][3] Anim was the third of six children and he attended the Basel Mission school at Boso from Class 1 to Standard 3.
All the four daughters born to the young married couple died and eventually Dora herself also passed away in 1920.
He found the teachings from the Sword of Spirit magazine "a real blessing" as he is quoted, "though I had intellectually believed the Bible before, I never had the truth presented in a more realistic way...."[4] As a result, Anim started evangelistic activities throughout southern Ghana.
The outbreak of Pentecostal revival with the gift of speaking in tongues in Anim’s church was exceptional.
Anim subsequently affiliated with the Apostolic Church in 1935, and negotiated for a residential missionaries to be sent to Ghana.