Mr Domo-Erinuu and his wife, Esther, have been blessed with a child after 11 years of marriage, a testament to the power of faith and perseverance in the Lord.
The couple, who worship at New Senchem Assembly in Wassa Senchem District in Twifo Praso Area of The Church of Pentecost, got married in 2014, with the expectation of starting a family immediately. However, after several years of waiting without any signs of having a child, they underwent various fertility tests, but all efforts proved futile.
Despite the challenges, the couple remained hopeful, and their faith was rewarded with a bouncing baby girl, after 11 years of marriage.
The joy of this miracles was celebrated at a christening ceremony of the baby girl on April 14, 2024, where the District Minister, Overseer Albert Kojo Quaicoe, spoke on the importance of raising children in the fear of God.
Overseer Quaicoe, using the Bible text from Genesis 18:18-19, emphasised the need for parents to ensure their children grow up with the principles and values of God, so they can become responsible members of the church and society.
He also cautioned that the waywardness of children can lead to the discontinuation of God’s blessings in a family as seen in the cases of Eli, the high priest and Samuel, the prophet in the Bible. He, therefore, advised parents to be deliberate in grooming their children to be upright, obedient and God-fearing.
The ceremony was attended by the wife of the district minister, Mrs Dorcas Quaiko, and other dignitaries.
The couple’s story serves as an inspiration to those who may be going through similar challenges, reminding them that with faith and perseverance, even the most seemingly impossible dreams can come true.
As criticism and cynicism against the Church become rife in some circles, the Chairman of The Church of Pentecost, Apostle Eric Nyamekye, has underscored the need for Christians to ensure that the Church remains strong in contemporary times.
Speaking at the Antwerp Zone to members of The Church of Pentecost in Belgium, Apostle Eric Nyamekye, focusing on the first of three sub-topics, “Building to be Strong,” referenced Matthew 16:18-19 and said, “We need to build the Church to be strong so that not even the gates of Hades can withstand the forward march of the Church. The Church is not a weak entity; it is something so powerful.
“When you see a Church playing weak, it’s all because of a generation that is only churching. But the Church must rule the world so that heaven will partner with the Church and cause what we say to come to pass,” he stressed.
The Chairman described the Church as a community of holy people walking in love and advancing into the world with the gospel of salvation. These are not perfect people, but holy people because God is in them, walking in love so that the whole world will know God through them.
“The Church must be powerful enough to answer questions—the difficult questions. It should be able to meet needs and solve problems.
“The Church should be a real Mount (Obadiah 1:17), able to receive sinners and, with the power of God, transform sinners into saints,” he said.
As an equipping centre, Apostle Nyamekye said God must be in the Church, as His presence is crucial to the Church.
“The Church must not be an ordinary ministry; God must be in our midst. When we meet, we must be able to smell the presence of God. If we want to experience His presence, we must carry His presence into the Church. The lifestyle of members of the Church must change for the watching world to know that God is in His Church.”
He continued, “The Church we are seeking to build is made up of those called out to be part of the community called the Church so that they would be able to transform their world.
“God calls us out and calls us together for a purpose: to become a community of His own people. But it is not enough for the community to meet; they have to advance into the world with the gospel of salvation,” he concluded.
Apostle Eric Nyamekye, the Chairman of The Church of Pentecost, paid a historic visit to the Church’s branch in Luxembourg on Wednesday, May 22, 2024.
The visit was part of his broader tour of some of the external branches of the church across Europe, following the successful organisation of the Pentecost Conference 2024 in Oberhausen, Germany.
The Church of Pentecost broke grounds in this landlocked country bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany, in October 2022 and has since been making remarkable strides, attracting a diverse congregation that includes indigenes.
The church members, led by Evangelist Sika Kwame, the National Head of the Church, warmly welcomed Apostle Nyamekye and his wife, Mrs. Mary Nyamekye. The excitement was palpable as the congregation eagerly anticipated the Chairman’s message to them.
In his address, Apostle Eric Nyamekye highlighted the crucial role of the Holy Spirit, describing Him as the “power of the Church.”
He urged the members to strive to build a church of relevance and influence by addressing/solving problems and ministering to the needs of the people.
After the address, the church leaders together with some of the members took Apostle Nyamekye and his entourage on a tour of the vibrant town.
Luxembourg, although one of the smallest countries globally, is renowned as a burgeoning business hub attracting people from neighbouring countries for various opportunities.
Apostle Nyamekye’s visit did not only reinforce the church’s mission efforts, but also inspired its members to continue their impactful work in Luxembourg and beyond.
Six hundred and twenty-two souls, including 122 children, were won during the evangelism outreach, dubbed “Body and Soul,” organised by the Cape Coast Sector of the Pentecost Students and Associates (PENSA).
The event also saw 268 persons baptised in water by immersion, 200 individuals receive the Holy Spirit baptism, and 194 believers rededicate their lives to Christ.
The outreach was held under the leadership of Pastor Blessing Joseph Quayson, the PENSA Traveling Secretary. It took place from Tuesday, May 7th to Sunday, May 12th, 2024, at Moree District in the Cape Coast Area, under the theme, “Jesus Christ, the Only Saviour of the World” (Acts 4:12).
A three-day retreat was organised from May 4th to 6th, 2024, to prepare and equip members through prayers and teaching sessions. The participants left campus for Moree District on Tuesday, May 7th, 2024, energised by the Holy Spirit to preach and win souls for Christ. Upon their arrival, they were welcomed by the District Minister, Pastor George Kweku Tackie, and his executives.
The District Pastor encouraged the students not to be afraid because the Lord was with them and would use them to perform miracles and win souls for Christ. The participants, divided into their respective zones, engaged in various activities such as fasting and prayers, morning devotion, dawn broadcasting, house-to-house evangelism, school visitations, evening services with the local assemblies, and rallies.
God manifested Himself mightily during these activities. A 19-year-old boy suffering from severe head pain that had affected his brain was miraculously healed. A woman named Aunty Akua, who had been suffering from a stroke for three months, received instant healing after intensive prayer and was able to walk. Additionally, a man who had been bedridden and unable to walk for three years was miraculously healed after intensive prayer and walked without any assistance, to the glory of God.
On Sunday, May 12th, 2024, during the closing session, the PENSA Traveling Secretary, on behalf of the students, expressed gratitude to the District Pastor and his wife, the district executives, and the entire membership for their hospitality and support during the outreach.
In total, 70 students participated in the evangelism outreach.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, Mr. John Allotey, visited The Church of Pentecost Headquarters today to seek the church’s support for the upcoming Green Ghana Day on June 7, 2024.
He was accompanied by a high-profile delegation, including Mr. Joseph Osiakwan (Technical Director, Forestry Commission), Mrs. Joyce Ofori Kwafo (Head of Corporate Affairs & Media Relations), and Mr. Elijah Amponsah Asiedu (Director for Internal Audit), among others.
The Church of Pentecost team that received the Forestry Commission officials included Apostle Samuel Gyau Obuobi (General Secretary), Apostle Wilberforce Nkrumah Agyeman (Teshie-Nungua Area Head), Apostle Felix Okyere Anti (Administrative Secretary to the General Secretary), and Pastor Emmanuel Appah (Finance and Administration Director).
Mr. Allotey highlighted the successful partnership between The Church of Pentecost and the Forestry Commission over the past three years, which has been instrumental in the government’s Green Ghana initiative. This initiative aims to plant trees to enhance the environment, and the church has consistently helped the commission achieve its annual target of planting 1 million trees.
Following the official launch of this year’s Green Ghana Day in March, Mr. Allotey’s visit aimed to garner the church’s support once again to meet this year’s ambitious target of planting 10 million trees nationwide. He assured that the commission would provide seedlings at various pickup points, including palaces and churches, making them easily accessible to the public. The seedlings will include timber trees like mahogany, ornamental plants, and fruit trees such as mango.
Mr. Allotey praised The Church of Pentecost for its leadership in environmental care, noting that the commission views the church as a formidable partner in this initiative. He suggested that the church mobilise its members and utilise its media outlets to create awareness and sensitise the public about the upcoming event.
The General Secretary, in turn, thanked Mr. Allotey and his team for the visit. He emphasised that the church’s involvement in environmental initiatives is inspired by scripture, noting that the first place God placed man was in the Garden of Eden, with a charge to work it and take care of it. This biblical mandate, according to him, continues to guide the church’s environmental efforts.
He reported that, in the last three years, the church has successfully planted 1.6 million seedlings, achieving a remarkable survival rate of 87%. He assured the Forestry Commission that the church is ready to partner again to ensure the commission’s target for this year is met.
Apostle Samuel Gakpetor, the National Coordinator for the Environmental Care Campaign, outlined the church’s plans for this year’s tree-planting efforts.
He mentioned that the church will request information from the Forestry Commission on various natural reserves where tree planting is necessary. Additionally, the church has identified 262 acres of land in the northern part of the country for tree planting.
The church will also leverage its media platforms to educate members and the public on the importance of tree planting and to create awareness for the event. Furthermore, the church is collaborating with the University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD) to hold a dialogue on June 5, in commemoration of World Environment Day, to educate people on the significance of tree planting and build momentum for Green Ghana Day.
Mr. Allotey expressed his admiration for the church’s planned activities, noting that they align with the Forestry Commission’s objectives. He was particularly impressed by the church’s efforts to ensure the survival of the trees planted, commending the church for nurturing the seedlings and ensuring that 87% of the 1.6 million seedlings planted had survived.
Also present at the meeting were Pastor Benedict Eghan (Personal Assistant to the Chairman), Pastor Dr. Felix Klutse (Director, Pent Media Centre), Pastor Eric Ansah (Member, Environmental Care Coordinating Team), and Mrs. Philomina Mireku (Women’s Ministry Director).
The New Takoradi District in the Takoradi Area of The Church of Pentecost organised a mass wedding for six couples.
The historic and well-attended event was held at the Bethel Assembly auditorium on Saturday, April 27, 2024.
Speaking at the occasion, the Kansaworado District Minister, Pastor Samuel Asare-Asamoah, admonished married couples to bear the fruit of the Spirit in order to transform their spheres of influence.
He spoke on the topic, “The Transformed Couple,” with the main scripture references from 2 Kings 4:25-26 and 1 Peter 3:1-7.
Pastor Asare-Asamoah explained that transformed couples are those who believe in Jesus Christ, are baptised into Him through the power of the Holy Spirit, and bear the Fruit of the Holy Spirit.
He further stated that such couples live their lives according to biblical standards, thereby making their marriages special and demonstrating the beauty of Christianity to the outside world.
“Transformed couples do not conform to the standards of the world but strive to be examples of believers in everything they do, ensuring that their conduct glorifies God and transforms their spheres of influence,” he affirmed.
Pastor Asare-Asamoah stressed that marriage was instituted by God and not man, hence the need to marry according to God’s principles, thereby transforming every sphere with kingdom values.
He added that spouses must make a conscious effort to transform their home, family, and workplace as part of championing the transformative agenda of the church.
“Wives must organise their homes very well, maintaining clean surroundings, bathrooms, kitchens, and utensils, while husbands must work hard to secure the financial position of the family,” he indicated.
The New Takoradi District Minister, Pastor Solomon Nii A. Djani, explained that the district decided to organise the mass wedding to regularise the marriages of the members in the district.
The programme was attended by Nana Kwabena Amponsah II (Chief of Subri in the Wassa Fiasi Traditional Area), Mrs. Lydia Maamiley Djani (New Takoradi District Minister’s Wife), District Executive Members, as well as officers and members of the district.
Report by Pastor Ernest Perbi-Asare (Takoradi Area Media Pastor)
Following the successful conclusion of the maiden edition of the Pentecost 2024 Conference in Oberhausen, Germany, on May 18, 2024, the Chairman of The Church of Pentecost, Apostle Eric Nyamekye, has paid a working visit to the Church in Belgium.
This visit was part of a working tour to various churches in Europe to assess their progress and encourage them to continue their Kingdom work tenaciously, as the church seeks to possess the nations.
On Tuesday (May 21) night, the Chairman, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Mary Nyamekye, met with the Antwerp Zone of the church, which includes Gent, Brussels, and Mechelen.
After participating in the opening prayer, worship, and songs of praise, the lectern was handed over to him. Unlike Apostle Paul, who told the church in Corinth in 1 Corinthians 3:1 that he could not address them as spiritual because they were still worldly, it was plaudit after plaudit for the church in Belgium.
“As I sat through the opening prayer, praises, and worship till now, I have realized that you are a mature church,” he remarked,
He also paid glowing tribute to the officers of the church, noting that the gathering was predominantly officers.
He commended them for their commitment, emphasising that the church owes its presence in 170 countries across the globe to the untiring and remarkably commendable efforts of its officers.
“We want to thank God for your lives and pray that God meets you at the point of your need,” he remarked.
In response, there were shouts of “Amen,” and delight was clearly visible on the faces of the officers in the congregation.
After commending them for their efforts, Apostle Nyamekye then challenged the Church in Belgium to dare to expand their territory, as there are more cities and towns yet to be covered.
“We still have to see to the expansion of The Church of Pentecost. Sit down and map Belgium again. Let’s cover every city; sit down and begin to map Belgium again and target the next town and city.
“When you decide to move and you are deliberate and strategic about it, God will grant you space in the cities and towns. Don’t first look at the resources, but obey the command. Hold onto this faith, and by the time we come here again in the next two years, you will have covered a lot of cities and towns.
“We are encouraging you to dare to move to the next cities and towns in Belgium for Christ,” the Chairman noted.
While urging the leadership of the Church to dare to expand, he advised the young people in the church to offer themselves for full-time ministry or bi-vocation, saying, “There are people who still need the Lord, so we have to offer ourselves to help those who need the Lord to know the Lord.”
‘If there is ever a season and time when the nations and churches need a wave of the Spirit, it is today. There is an urgent need for revival and restoration in our churches now. There is urgency now in the nations of the world, and the Church of Christ for a restoration of all the things of old.’
This clarion call was made by the Evangelism Director of The Church of Pentecost, Apostle Dr Amos Jimmy Markin, during a presentation on ‘The Waves of the Spirit’ at the maiden Pentecost 2024 Conference held at the Rudolf Weber Arena, Oberhausen, Germany, from May 15-18, 2024.
Referring to several scriptures to back his call, including Luke 24: 49; Psalm 32: 8; Job 32: 8, Proverbs 20:27, Apostle Dr Jimmy Markin, who is also an Executive Council Member of the church, indicated that the time has come for the Spirit of God to move with his power to turn the world back into righteousness and the fear of God.
He observed that the nations of the world have become so secularized that godliness does not matter to them anymore. In nations and lands previously Christian, the mention of God today is a taboo and unknown. Even in places such as Africa, Latin American and Asia where Christianity is thought to be growing, the nature of the average Christian’s life is very superficial, he bemoaned.
He added that in the nations of the West, just as those in Africa including Ghana today, which is thought to be predominately Christian, there is nothing to show for it, since the churches have become places of merchandise, performing artistry, self-aggrandizement, sin and evil and a habitation of anything but God.
‘The Church today suffers because it neglects the Spirit and is not sensitive to him. The Spirit is the custodian or the gate keeper, the helper, and guardian of Church,’ he stated.
He added: ‘The believer in Christ misses his or her direction and guide, because he does not know or recognize the Spirit. The young educated person misses his guide, because he loses his focus on the Spirit but only rely on the articulation and training of the mind.’
Explaining what the wave of the Spirit is, Apostle Dr Jimmy Markin disclosed that it is the periodic intervention of the move of God – the Holy Spirit – upon a generation, nation, community, people or individuals, who seek after God’s Spirit to intervene in their spiritual dryness.
According to him, there is a wave of the Spirit when the Holy Spirit comes to revive, restore, or brings a divine awakening upon a spiritually dead situation or people to make them alive to the consciousness of God.
He pointed out that a wave of the Spirit brings back an awareness of God consciousness as the Spirit revives spiritually dead situations. To the sinner, the Spirit brings an awareness of the existence of God, sin consciousness, and the sinfulness of sin, and repentance. To the already Christian, he brings an alertness and sensitivity of God and his Holy Spirit and desire to please him. He revives the church, God’s people, and bring them to their former position, or condition of first love, which used to exist in them.
‘When the Spirit sends forth his wave there is renaissance. What the churches need today is not articulation of words, but the Spirit. The missionary can only break new grounds and sustain it by the wave of the Spirit. The life of the child of God will flourishes only when he is touched by the Spirit,’ he said.
Apostle Samuel Edzii Davidson, the Offinso Area Head of The Church of Pentecost, has emphasised the critical importance of being “clothed with divine power” for every child of God to navigate life successfully and transform their world.
The Offinso Area Head said this in a sermon themed, ‘Clothed with divine power to transform your world,’ on Friday, May 17,2024, during the PCC Revival held at the Pentecost Convention Centre, Gomoa Fetteh.
Speaking on the source of divine power, Apostle Davidson stressed that all power belongs to God, who commands even nonexistent things with His word.
He went on to indicate that divine power is the most critical requirement of the child of God and is needed to help them transform their world.
He pointed out that Jesus Christ, being God the Son, ‘was conceived and declared with power. The Holy Spirit, our companion, is also a spirit of power.’
He asserted that ‘Christianity without power is equal to religion without reality’ and that what sets Christianity apart from other religions is the move of the power of God.
He declared that one needs divine power to excel in life, as life is a constant battle from birth.
Apostle Davidson emphasised the importance of divine power to prevail rather than travail through life, to succeed instead of suffer, to grow and not crawl, and to function as effective witnesses demonstrating the power of God to convince others of His existence and the salvation offered through Jesus.
He urged believers to fast and wait on the Lord for divine power, just as Queen Esther did in her days.
The three-day-long PCC Revival held at the Pentecost Convention Centre (PCC) at Gomoa Fetteh, was climaxed with a power-packed ‘roar’ all-night service on Friday night, May 17, 2024.
The revival organised to offer patrons the opportunity to have and encounter with God and receive a renewal of strength had word ministrations from Apostle James Kwabena Asare (Kasoa Area Head), Apostle Christian Tsekpoe (Head of Ministerial Formation and Training at the Pentecost School of Theology and Mission (PSTM) of the Pentecost University), and Apostle Samuel Edzii Davidson (Offinso Area Head).
Elder Gideon Ntumy, Deaconess Nancy Kwafo, Elder Patrick Amoako and the PCC Revival Choir also warmed the services with Holy Spirit-filled song ministrations.
Delivering the last sermon to climax the event, Apostle James Kwabena Asare highlighted the need for a revival in the lives of Christians to transform their world.
He explained that when the disciples were waiting for the Holy Spirit as instructed by Jesus before His ascension into heaven, they did not know when the Holy Spirit would come, who and how it looked like, however they obeyed Him and waited.
He added that while the disciples knew Jesus to be gentle and worked calmly, the Holy Spirit came in with a bit of contrast – as wind and fire.
According to the Kasoa Area Head, the Holy Spirit as a wind, was a sign of the breath of God, invisibility, yet a powerful presence being unstoppable and unpredictable.
On the other hand, he said, the Holy Spirit as fire represented purification, refinery, source of passion, empowerment, energy, attraction and makes all who receive him become a firebrand of God which consumes anything evil and ungodly.
Apostle Asare called on patrons to make it a point to wait upon the Holy Spirit for revival and go out with the revival to transform their world.
To the glory of God some persons who attended the revival with several health conditions received healing from God.
Intercessory prayers were also said for the peace and stability of Ghana during and after the election year.
