Visit To The Volta Region

After spending our first few days in Accra, we had a unique opportunity to travel to a different region and join with a summer project of 20 Ghanaian students from various schools in Ghana. We worked together to bless the people there by helping them understand how they can be assured of their salvation. We visited a nursing school two of the days, and a polytechnic school two days, meeting students and talking with them about the gospel. Ghana is very Christianized, so it is really easy to just go up to someone and say, “I’m from America and I’m in Ghana to talk with people about the gospel.” We were welcomed into many dorm rooms and had some great conversations. At first it felt strange sharing the gospel with so many Christians-they already knew how to be rightly connected to God through faith in Jesus, and they seemed to be really well-versed in Scripture. Even so, each time I asked someone about the certainty that they would be in heaven after they die, no one could say 100%. It was fun to walk through 1 John 5:11-13 with them and help them understand that if they know Jesus, they don’t have to fear where they will end up when they die.

Here is a picture of Ben and David, who has been a missionary in Ghana this year, with Robert, Cephas, and their friend at the Polytechnic campus in Ho. Robert and Cephas trusted Christ as their Savior this day!

That same day, we went into a couple of villages to invite people to a showing of The Jesus Film. Ben was able to share the gospel with a local woman named Bridget who wanted to receive Christ with him. Here she is!

Our time in Volta was very fruitful. Over 800 people heard the gospel through personal conversations or from seeing The Jesus Film, and over 300 indicated that they want to or did start a relationship with Christ that week.

Here are a few pictures from the villages we visited...