Ghana
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Official name: The Republic of Ghana |
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[edit] Geography
[edit] Location
[edit] Climate
[edit] Natural Resources
[edit] Demographics
[edit] Peoples
- The Akan people are using Twi as their main language of.
- Dagaba, Upper West Region
- The Hanga people, population 7 400 person, Christian 7,5%, most of the people belong to Ethnic Religions, they have the New Testament in their language, since 2006, "Faith Comes by Hearing" tapes of dramatized Hanga Scriptures became available, a number of persons got converted through these tapes. The Hanga Christians are reaching out to their own people, also to the sister tribes in the remote places.
- The Konkomba people, read about the church planting among them in Ronaldo Lidorio, Unafraid of the Sacred Forest, 128 pages, Christian Focus Publications, this book is written by Brazilian trained anthropologist Ronaldo Lidorio, and tells the full, thrilling story of how the Gospel impacted the Konkomba who had not encountered it before.
- [[Sisaala], Upper West Region
- Wala, Muslim, the Wala live in Wa and a few of the nearby villages, see more details.
[edit] Languages
- Languages spoken in Ghana, see GRN
The main language of the Akan people is Twi. There are 32 different variations of Twi.
[edit] Provinces
- Upper West Region; The major ethnic groups are the Dagaba, Sisaala and Wala. The Dagaba live in the western part of the region, the Sisaala live in the eastern areas. The Sisaala and Dagaba are mostly Christian and animist, while most Wala are Muslim; Wa is the largest predominantly Islamic city in Ghana.
[edit] Life
- The Cities of Ghana:
- Accra
- Kumasi
- Nkwanta
- HoHoo
- Tamale is located in the northern part of the country. In the town is a Christian Computer School.
- Wa is the Regional Capital of the Upper West Region of Ghana where 85% of the population are Muslims. the Wala live in Wa and a few of the nearby villages. Most Wala are Muslim.
[edit] Economy
[edit] Government
[edit] Religion
- See Religions in Ghana for a statistical breakdown.
- The people of Ghana are a religiously passionate people, see Francis's page.
[edit] Islam
[edit] Buddhism
[edit] Christianity
- The government has given the Bible Society permission to give every student in Ghana’s Junior Secondary Schools a Bible commemorating Ghana’s 50 years of independence. That is a million 12 to 16 year-olds, a whole generation of boys and girls who could grow up inspired and influenced by the Bible's enduring message.
[edit] History
[edit] Churches
- Evangelical Church of Ghana, founded 1977 by WEC International in Ghana.
- On 23 September 2007 the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Evangelical Church of Ghana has reached a climax with a special celebration in Accra under the theme Celebrating God's Faithfulness. May the leaders and church members will be greatly encouraged and spurred on to greater commitment and evangelistic zeal.
- On of the problems among the Christians - saved and unsaved - they are too superstitious; often they want to appease both God and the spirits of their ancestors.
- Many of the northerners who moved south in search of better living conditions have been converted to Islam. Now 63 per cent of Muslims live in the southern region. Pray that both Ghanaian and expatriate workers may be used of God to increase the number of northern-language congregations in the southern cities.
[edit] Church and State Relations
[edit] Mission and Evangelization
- A nation-wide survey 1985-89 conducted by the Ghana Evangelism Committee (GEC) was studied in regional and national conferences involving most denominational leaders. The results revealed the spiritual need of Ghana.
- Nominal Christians numbered seven million.
- Of the 26,000 towns and villages, 15,000 had no congregations of Christians.
- In the less evangelised north there were three million individuals in 40-50 peoples who were unreached or, at best, partially reached.
- In the heavily evangelized south lived two million northerners (18% of the population) that were unreached.
- The five million adherents of Islam and traditional religions needed to be reached.
- Vision for the 21st Century. The 1989 Ghana Evangelism Committee (GEC) national conference set goals for the ’90s but they were only partially achieved. At the February 1990 meeting of Ghana Evangelism Committee was the Ghana Evangelical Missions Association (GEMA) founded.
- These are a continuing prayer challenge:
- To increase congregations from 22,600 to 53,000. By 2000 there were probably 30-35,000 churches.
- To plant 2,000 new churches for northern peoples in the East and West Upper regions, the Northern region and for northerners in the South. That goal has yet to be attained, but at least eight churches and agencies are actively and vigorously planting and multiplying churches in each of these regions.
- An active, witnessing church for every village, town, urban neighbourhood and ethnic community. This goal is only partially achieved, and 70% of Ghana’s villages still have no church.
- Pray that these goals might be achieved by 2010.
- Praise God that the Ghanaian church has responded to the challenge to own the Ghana Evangelism Committee and to provide funds and resources for the National Church Survey. Pray for Ross Campbell and his Ghanaian co-workers as they complete the survey for the north of Ghana and continue the work in the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions. The purpose is to identify the communities of Ghana that remain unreached with the gospel and to challenge the churches and mission societies to mobilise resources and find effective strategies to reach these communities.
- The less evangelized peoples of Ghana have, generally, never been so receptive as now (May 2008). Ghanaian and expatriate workers are needed for the reaping. Of the more than 35 peoples of the north, only one is even nominally Christian — the Dagaari who are 60% Catholic, and the Sisaala, Kulango, Mossi, Konkomba, Nankana, etc., are over 10% Christian. In most, less than 2% are Christian of any variety, though few have no Christians. Churches have often been small, weak, largely illiterate with many leaders having basic training only.
- Bible typesetting of the second edition of the Konkomba Bible. The head typesetter needs prayer now. He is to finish typesetting the Konkomba Bible by the end of February 2009 because there is another Bible scheduled for typesetting in March. Happy news that all ten thousand copies of the first edition have been sold out, now the people are waiting for the next edition.
- The Bible Society of Ghana plans to distribute one million Bibles among the children in the schools.
- There has been a spiritual upsurge. The evangelistic zeal of many Christians has increased in evangelism among the animistic and Muslim northern peoples.
- There is also rapid growth of African Independent churches which offer excitement, involvement and miracles, but not always salvation by faith. May the true gospel may shine into hearts.
[edit] Broadcasting
[edit] Councils and Networks
[edit] Future Trends
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