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He entered Kumasi on 1st April 1839, and founded a church and opened fourteen more stations.16 These, he accomplished through the initiative and assistance of devoted African helpers. James Hayford, a Fante Methodist and the British representative resident in Kumasi stood tall among the list.
After Dunwell’s death, the indigenous leadership of the Ghana Methodist Church took up the challenge of leading and managing the Church until other missionaries arrived. The determination of...
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The Methodist Church Ghana is one of the largest and oldest mainline Protestant denominations in Ghana. It traces its roots back to the landing of the Rev. Joseph Dunwell on 1 January 1835 in Cape Coast, in the Gold Coast (now Ghana ). [5] The Rev. T. B. Freeman, another missionary, took the Christian message beyond Cape Coast to the Ashanti ...
Formerly it had been an Overseas District of British Methodism. The pioneer Methodist missionary, Joseph Dunwell, landed at Cape Coast on January 1, 1835, and began work among the Mfantse-speaking peoples of the Coast, some of whom were already Christians.
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This deed of Foundation is enshrined in the Constitution and Standing Orders of our Church. Currently, the Methodist Church Ghana, is one of the leading Churches in our country, with a total membership of over 600,000. The Church has 17 dioceses, 3,814 societies, 1,066 pastors, 15,920 local preachers, 24,100 Lay Leaders, many schools, an ...
Jan 2, 2018 · He also reconciled the two factions of Smith and de-Graft and on March 26, 1835, he issued to fifty adherents, the first Methodist Church membership cards ever given in Ghana. This act marked the formal establishment of the Methodist Church in Ghana.
Jan 11, 2011 · On Sunday, December 19, 2010, Reverend Dunwell was again remembered with the building of a monument in his honour. A human size bronze statue erected on the premises of the Dunwell Memorial Methodist Church at Dichemso in Kumasi was unveiled. The occasion was the 20th anniversary of the New Tafo Circuit. The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist ...
