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Experimental Approach to Outreach Succeeds in Ghana

Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Every Child Ministries (ECM) is taking an experimental approach to its outreach this year in Ghana. ECM’s John Rouster says “phenomenal church growth” prompted the organization to pause because evangelism and discipleship teams were getting spread too thin.

“We are putting more intense work into one given area rather than travelling around to several different schools,” he explained. “We combined the teams and brought them together and put them in one area and intensified our approach to this particular area.”

This approach gives the teams more time to build relationships. The team of eight Americans and four Ghanaians taught character-building lessons in the schools of the area, visited local homes to make new friends and evangelize, and shared the gospel as opportunities arose with local authorities and traditional priests of the area.

Rouster said the people have responded enthusiastically to the combined discipleship approach. “In Ghana the church is very wide, but the depth of knowledge of the Scriptures and the depth of people in their Christian lives is quite shallow,” he added. “What we’re hoping to do is give more people more depth in their knowledge and in their love of the Lord.”

Source: Mission Network News

* HCJB Global represents the Voice and Hands of Jesus in a growing number of partner stations and medical ministries across Sub-Saharan Africa from its regional headquarters in Accra, Ghana.