Oh my God.
None. I.
None. Or if you are clapping for the
Lord, then do it better praise the Lord.
We have a request to be grateful to God as a country and as a
people. You know we are in the Ghana
month, Ghana God has given. US Peace.
And every day when you get up from your bed, thank God for the
peace of the nation. Amen.
Without wasting time, we invite our dear pastor, Pastor Emmanuel
Osaya Kosa. Shall we welcome him with a clap
of. Praise the Lord, may the grace
and peace for our Father and our Savior Jesus Christ be
multiplied unto everybody here. And we want to wish everybody
happy. Machines, machines week.
Oh, I didn't feel your, your, your, your, your Amen.
Say a bigger Amen. So this week is very dear to the
heart of the church because we celebrate the mother of all
weeks, which is called the Machines week and intentionally
it coincides with the week that revenge is.
My Kyung came to Ghana in the year 1937.
So such a long time ago he came to Ghana and he came to get
Ghana in March and get Ghana to Regina independence in March.
So March is a very key month for the history of this beautiful,
great nation called Ghana. And for that matter, when it's
the time of the year in March, we want to bring ourselves
together and gather ourselves, pray to support the work of
missions and also get much more clarity in why we do what we do
and also to give bountifully to support the work of missions.
So we want to share with you the history of this church from the
time that our founder came to Gold Coast, to Ghana and to now
and what the church is doing when it comes to machines in the
global space in the global space.
So we are looking at the history of the COP and this was designed
or put together by our dear area head Apostle Dr. the La Quampa.
Next slide please. So COP is one of the major
Pentecostal denominations in Gagana.
Before our dear Fawana came to Gagana in March, there had been
a prophetic word through the ministry of Prophet Wadi Harris.
He came from Liberia and when he ministered in Ghana, he said
that God is bringing a white man to Ghana and through him he's
going to establish a very great and a powerful Pentecostal
church in Ghana so we can trace all the AICS.
When you talk about AICS, you're talking about the African
independent churches. What do you call systems?
Sorry, 12 apostles Moon coming to our apostles revelation those
they mix the African way of worship together with them.
So they mix these two and so those ministries prepare the
grounds for the COP to also make a very powerful way to take over
Gagana. So see what we trace our miss
to. We trace our roots to the
ministry of James Machion. There has been a very slight
debate about the exact time that he came to Gagana.
Some are saying second match, some are saying fourth match.
And we have another school of thoughts who are saying seventh
match. So whether it's second, 4th or
7th, the new man said he came in the first week of March and this
guy has come because of where you are looking at.
He arrived at the Jamestown which date and he moved all the
way from Accra to Asaman Khasi. Then it will take you some time.
So if some are saying second, you cannot vote on them because
depending on where you were and when you met him, could be a
date where you you can put down that he came to probably the
GameStop on the 2nd 4th he was in the East team and then seven
probably they saw him. So the bottom lines, he was in
Ghana the first week of March in the year 1937.
So our founder for the church is Reverend James McKeon, a man who
operated with Apostolic grace, yet he wanted to be known as
pastor. He ordained higher ones but he
remained as simple as Reverend James.
So I could please don't ask me why because why has a long tail?
So he was in Ghana as our chairman from 37 to 82 and he
led the COP. We will see soon, see how his
work, you know, moved from the 1937 to the 1980s when he left.
So he came on the invitation of next flight.
He came when he was invited by a group that was founded by one
Peter in him and they were based in Asaman, Khasi, Eastern Region
in Ghana. And this man had had an
encounter with a mabaghism from the US, from the Faith
Tabernacle Church. And when you read the articles
and other things about healing, he was healed.
He himself, he was sick for a long time, so his encounter with
that way that he was healed got him to develop that great tests
that he too. He needed the Holy Ghost because
he had heard that by the laying on of hands, some people would
speak in other tongues and that brought them so much power.
So through his quests and his tests, he he also connected.
He got himself connected to another group linked to the
Apostolic Church in the UK. So though he had begun a small
group, they needed someone to come around to come and teach
them, guide them to become a very powerful church.
So to cut it short, they sent him Reverend James Mckim whilst
they were requesting for him here in Ghana, in Europe too.
James Mccune Scholing came through a prophetic word.
Me ma, me ma me ma. No, not in that sense.
But his word came that he and his wife had been called to
serve in West Africa. James Mccune hesitated.
He didn't just pick up his bag to say that because we are
going. It took him one year, it took
him one whole year to accept. Why?
Because he felt that he he left school early.
So he was feeling that I mean, shut down, called school.
Not much of you know why would God want me, someone who is not
much educated to come to West Africa to come and start a
church or to come and help this group.
So you, you see that obedience to the whole of God is very key.
James Mccune he had not just been to school, but he went went
to school small but with the grace of God and obedience.
Look at how God used him to build such a global COP or to
the glory of God's soul. In case you have never seen him
before, this is their picture whilst they were young and when
they grew up to you, you see him there.
So he came to Ghana and they took him to Casa Marquez.
The group that invited him, the Faith Tabernacle group had a
very powerful stance that when you are sick, just as their
leader was healed believing in God, you too don't go and seek
medical help. Just trust in God and you'll be
healed divine or through the supernatural means of of
Google's power. So this mature came as a white
and the African mosquitoes were unfriendly.
They discipline him were well. So he he he felt sick, he almost
died. He took the intervention of the
DCE of that place that is Kibi. So he took him to Rich Hospital
in Accra and he was healed. He spent about 9-10 days there.
When he returned, there was a very sharp division.
Hey, someone who has been sent from Europe to come and teach us
to become a very good group. You, you are sick.
You didn't have much faith to trust in God to heal you.
You went for medication. So the first split came.
So just two years after he came to the Gold Coast, there was a
split. He had to leave and to join
another group within the same vicinity.
And eventually they decided to move away from the eastern
region to Winneba. So Jegenz Makil held his first
convention with about 200 people came, and by that the Apostolic
Church Gold Coast took ship as if that was enough.
So he moved from Winneba and then from Winneba he went to
Cape Coast to set up the church there and then from K Cape Coast
he landed at Labadi here where the head office of the church
has been. In fact, that was where he used
to stay. Reverend Jim Ismachion used to
please go back a little bit so that we will take our time and
then look at this, go back and you just be here.
That is where I have reached. So eventually they moved back to
Accra to set up the head office of the church.
By then the name of the church was the Apostolic Church Gold
Coast because he was sent by the Apostolic Church UK.
So he was linked to them. Next one please.
Because of our time you have to move on to so the 1938 divine
killing. So I think we have talk about it
next one please. So the effect was that now the
church OK, so the group that was led by the leader of that small
group that was called Chibentwa. That self no education group in
Chi was called Chibentwa. When you are sick, just believe
in God. That group now adopted the name
Christ Apostolic Church and the CAC we know now and then James
McKeon continued the Apostolic Church, you know the emphasis on
the Apostolic Church. You will come to understand it
now the Apostolic Church Gold Coast next slide.
So from Winneba, Cape Coast, Accra, now the church, the
Apostolic Church Google Coast began to spread to Wasasimpa
Pristia dumping him man in the western region and then also to
the Humansi Asante region and it was spreading Accra eastern,
western and so on. In 1945 they formed this group
called the bombing group. Go to the next slide please.
So 1945 they formed the bombing group which eventually became
the witness movement and now called the evangelism ministry.
So it began with just a very small young man who were on fire
for the Lord planting the churches.
So from. From the Eastern Region moved to
Wake Minibar, Cape Coast back to Akran and they were taking it
back to voter region, Asin, Asante region, voter region and
it was spreading and spreading and spreading.
So by pay our records, by 1953 we had 512 assemblies in Ghana,
assemblies in Ghana and we had adult membership of 13,000.
So the second thing that happened in the history of the
church happened in May 1953. This is what happened.
There is this group in the US called the Latter Rain Movement.
It was led by Doctor Thomas Wyatt.
So they came to Ghana and before they even came there, there was
that there wasn't that calmness about their invitation because
that the church in the UK later on did not like the idea of
inviting them to come to Ghana. So later that that time James
Mackin had to go for council meeting in the UK.
When you went there, the Apostolic Church then in the UK
brought forth constitutional review whereby a black apostle
could not exercise authority over a white minister who was
probably an overseer or even lesser in in if you like rank.
So James Mccune and and and then there was this another minister.
They were seeing these things as not based on the on the Bible.
So he refused. His refusal led to his
dismissal. James Mccune was eventually
dismissed by his home church and Apostle Pencil and some group in
Ghana decided to invite him by because they like the way he was
doing his work and a lot of them.
So he came back not by the church that sent him from his
home country but this time around the Africans in googled
coast asked him to come back and come and leave them.
So you can imagine that whilst he was coming, the Mother Church
will also have to send another missionary to come and take over
the church that he has. He has begun.
So eventually that same year there was a split.
There was a split and it was very serious.
So whilst this split took place, Makyung Group needed to adopt
another nickname. So now they took the name Gold
Coast Apostolic Church whilst the Mother Church that treats
its roots to the UK Church continue with the name the
Apostolic Church Gold Coast, The Apostolic Church Gold Coast next
one please. Because of time we cannot go
through them line by line. Other than that you take us over
an hour to explain thoroughly. So please, if you are here at
church on which date cry on Tuesday.
I took my time to explain all these things, but for now and we
are just trying to make make good use of our time because
time is limited. So the Gold Coast Apostolic
Church became the Ghana Apostolic.
It was that time that they they it was so sharp that the Mccune
group needed to abandon every church building, every militia
house, everything that they they are jointly acquired.
They had to leave it and now be meeting under the trees.
That is how come that the COP we we we used to say that now
you're comparable to quasi. That was the reason why because
we were sacked, we didn't have any space.
So we needed to just make good use of the spaces under the
trees to go there and to pray and thanks me to God that it was
through those times that the church evolved with so much
power, so much glory and so much beauty meeting there.
So we're praying every Friday in a once in a while they will
receive, you know, some messages from Reverend Kion when they
read it, they zoom into prayers, fervent prayers.
And it was through those prayers that people were healed.
There was the power of God being demonstrated and it was
overwhelming, abundant grace everywhere.
So post independence, Dr. M Cromer advised the group the
Machiung group to adopt A new name since it was confusing but
he didn't know minimum and they say may call Apostolic when they
get there. They didn't have to go and ask
where a brony James man came on church now and now said you you
give for the So he was so confused because after
independence now he became Ghana Apostolic Church and the
Apostolic Church Ghana. So it was Jean AC and then TAC
confusing. You're crying now.
Now we are even would have confused a lot of us.
So 1962 first August, the Ghana Apostolic Church changed its
name to the Church of Pentecost. So if you were reading through
our history and you go and see Ghana Apostolic Church, it is us
and now the Apostolic Church TAC, they have the original UK
Apostolic fauna, they are now the Apostolic Church Ghana.
So if you have mentioned their name, you don't bring the day,
you'll be in trouble because of history, you need to be very
specific and we have been through a lot.
We have been through a lot. So we change our name and it was
duly registered in Ghana. So the chief of Pentecost and it
took place through a prayer meeting.
Some have said that it was the late Apostle G Wood.
G Wood, the father of Apostle Wood, his father.
I think he's the one who got that song.
And if I'm not mistaken, this song.
I mean, he must say no idea. Menya and Shira and Shira ebusu
miya miya ko mem or your Pentecost war me cremo or yuja
Walmart town phone so so the name of the Pentecost came by a
prophetic word, a song. That is how we got this name and
we have used it and we are still using it till now.
Next one, please, please go on. So from Ghana, this small group
which has experienced two major splits is now growing steadily,
growing, growing and growing. So we needed now to move out of
Ghana and spread the gospel to the whole world.
Please go back still just be here.
So missionary activities included the efforts of
everybody from students to to lay women and men, to Fisher
folks, to those who were sent to go and do their pH DS in Europe,
to those who are just going after fishes in the sea, to
Apostolic, to elders, to pastors, everybody.
Weaver is a concerted way of doing it because some of us were
sent to, some of them were sent to go and study.
For instance, I give the example of Holland and whilst he was
there doing his speech there are things he decided to preach the
gospel and now we have the church in Holland which is doing
very well. So we were sending out.
Not that it wasn't only the ministers who opened the the COP
churches in the nations. Some were done by students
somewhere done by you and I people, ordinary students who
had gone there for students program and Athens.
They preached the gospel and people came.
Then they requested for ministers to go and grow theirs,
those smaller, smaller denominations.
So your time may come that when you are sent to Uzbekistan to go
and study, don't go and hide in your small corner and say that
maybe you have me by maybe a school, but you have the fire of
God in you. You can also go out there,
preach the gospel and then start a church.
Let's go on. So now on the COP church,
globally, we are in 211 nations, 211 nations, including Ghana.
Somebody will ask, now we are seeing in our cry, yeah, yeah.
I don't know what you're saying, 211.
So there are some of the smaller, smaller States and
nations which may not have been recognized by the UN, but they
also exist on their own and they have their own kind of
leadership. So we are in 211.
So from one man's obedience, one man's simple obedience.
Not educated, not with the PhDs. PhDs are good.
We want as many of us to go to school, but that alone cannot
carry the church. James Mccune always remarked
that the work is prayer and prayer is the work.
So he relies solely on God and he had to pray.
So the foremost thing that one support missions work with, it's
your prayer. Please don't relent or don't
stop praying. We need to pray for them.
So globally now, the church COP now has 4,975,385 membership
overall. Ghana has the biggest which is
4.2 and now when you go to the work work of missions, we have
granted 2 nations to be autonomous so that they can now
elect their own leaders and present them to the overall
COPCOP executive. So we have Togo and we have
Benin and Laco d'ivoire. Is it two or three?
Is it 3 because OK, it's La Cote d'Ivoire and then bedding?
Yes, La Cote d'Ivoire and Benin, they have been given that chance
and space so that anything they do, we don't send direct help
from the COP from LA to them. But they are now doing their own
thing and but they still have that link to us as a COP church
and all the mothers are known. So from the 211, when you take
Ghana out, it's it's level 210. If you take two out, it's level
about 208. So the other 208 half the
479,375 overall membership, so external machines that were that
have been added to it to increase it to 210 are as
follows. So next slide please.
So these are the nations that 20, the 21 new nations which
have been added, these are their names because if I try now, so
it's OK as you see there, it is there.
Let's go on. So globally we have 148
missionaries and the non missionaries are 3441.
The missionaries are those who have been sent to a minister
away from their home nations. So if I was called from Ghana
and I'm asked to go and serve in another nation other than Ghana,
I am termed as what? A missionary.
But whilst I'm serving in Ghana here, I'm not a missionary,
anyone who has also been transferred to Ghana from where
he was called from is also serving as a missionary in
Ghana. So across all these divides, we
have 148 missionaries of the church who are serving away from
their home nations. So we have 140.
We need to pray for them. So you know COP globally has
3589 ministers globally and 1:48 as serving as missionaries.
Next slide. So what is helping us now to
reach the indigenes? At first when you go to Europe
and in the US and the West and the East, it was more or less
like Ghanaian who have moved there in search of work.
We just go there to to gather them together and to have a
church. At first that was what was we
were doing, but now thanks we to go that it has changed.
It has shifted dramatically now through the city church.
The COP in the West are making some inroads and we have we now
have nationalities indigenous who have joined our church who
are non Ghanaians, who are not from Africa, who are not from
Ghana but they are real indigenous who are serving world
with their mother tongue in their nation.
So the city churches all over the West and even some parts of
West or sub-saharan and Africa is also working very hard to
attract them. So now if you go there now, they
will be seeing you and be like hanging out free by hanging out.
So now they are singing and soon you'll be seeing some of them in
the video. We will show you the next one,
please. Another way that God is helping
us to make inroads in mission field is Spencer.
It's also helping us whereby we are falling on them and through
them. And by the grace of God that the
church in the US now has military based districts in the
US offering chaplaincy service to the military officers and
their families. So we now have 9 military based
districts in the US and they are doing very well over there.
Let's move on please. When you come back to Ghana,
what we are doing here, another frontier that we have also
embarked on is to doing some social interventions.
This is one of the ongoing correctional institutions that
we are doing to help Ghana in effect the camp reasons that we
have been doing. This one is ongoing at the
Damong the Damongo which was commissioned in this year by the
Excellency President George Armani Mahama.
And there's another one going on in Abuasi, the next one please.
But we have already finished two two of them.
This one I was there from the beginning to the end.
I saw it feeling feeling. I was involved because we were
at then at in some Pi the very day that Chairman Brooke cut the
sword. Let me just hope I was there
feeling feeling nobody. This is somebody I was there
some and to the day that His Excellency President Echo for
the King for me. She need to let me meet with
your life actively involved. I saw it with my two eyes, not
just seen it but actively involved and people
misunderstood us. People thought that even till
now, till now, even now if I open now class some of few class
still not clear true of us. But let me give you this small
thing. What we have done here, you have
no idea how it is contributing to the welfare and the
well-being of someone who is an inmate.
I have been preaching to at in some prison for three years.
Once I was at in some. So every week I will go there
minimum, at least once a week minimum.
And when you get in there and you see the states of the
inmates and the inmates they, they range from, they cut across
every side of the society. We have medical doctors who are
there at least a new one. I saw him every day, said Mikawa
Nami Uno. There were those with master's
degree, those who were who you used to work with the banks
because of fraud. They are there and they were the
last group of somebody here. Those who were, who were doing
things on the street railings and there were ministers too who
were there. And when you go there and you
see how congested and anytime you enter there, you see the
figure there. And a place that was built
originally for about less than 1000 was carrying over 3500 men,
not small boys or men, 3500 plus men.
And now the church came in that these people are our clients.
So we are trying to decongest and to show them the love of God
and and if you don't get that vision right, you always speak
against us. And the day that it was built
and we put all this, once they were doing these things where
they all me, I went there. I was going there almost every
day to go and see how they are doing it.
And the first group that came there from who they were
transferred from the Whoop prisons to come there, come and
see their reactions. When they got there, they were
like, wow, what a beautiful place.
And they were thanking God, Inmatesville, thanking God, this
place is nice, this is nice. And we had bought them some
toothbrushes, toothpaste and some things that they do that
will make their state there comfortable.
So when they got there, some of them had not cleaned their mouth
for about 3 days somewhere even a week.
So when they got that chance to use toothbrush and a toothpaste
to clean their mouth and to brush their teeth, come and see
their joy. Apart from that, look at the
where they sleep like Senior High School.
And we bought TV's, we fixed 2 flat screen TV's in these halls
so once they go inside that they can enjoy anything which we
enjoy by watching TV. If you go there, some of them
they have DSTVS, DSTV. What would you only be with you
on what partial already or enjoy why we want to show them the
love of God and everybody can be sent to the prison.
Anybody is a potential inmates, anybody, all of us anybody ask
the if we in paying for my culture.
There can be a soup and you beat me a flower shower before you
say me Calm encounter. You have been there for about a
week Accra, you have been there. So when these things came and
look at the fans, the ceiling fans which are there for for
them to just also ease the bedding for one day whilst at in
some prison. I got the chance to get very
close, close to where they stay and getting to know the kind of
food they eat. That day I went to massage.
Very sad. So for a church to come around
to do these things to ease the burden.
If your relative has never been to some prison before, you don't
know how tough and how hard it is for you to have somebody
there. So the church came and whilst
they are there we, they acquire skills.
The church bought computers, sewing machines, they can sew
dresses, they have laundry there.
Anything you want to learn, they ask you and you start and you
learn. And we also put up a Chapel in
there so that whilst that same place is used as a classroom, so
when they finish their services, they reconstitute the whole
place into a classroom where they sit and learn.
And these things, some people, they talk and they blast us.
They say that we'll open a factory, but for the church
sinners, our clients for the factory and other things, the
government who takes our income tax to handle that place.
But for us, the mandate of the church is to the Sinner and
anything that will ease the bedding of the Sinner by showing
them that Jesus cares for them. That is our mandate and that is
our work of the church. So if you have also been having
that difficulty thinking about what we are doing.
So when they come to the to the prison, we get them to preach
them the first group that that came from who about 85% receive
Christ and they were baptized in water sinners.
Now that they have come, so we get there, we baptize them.
So let us see that to all these things in the church and on the
social media about those things, I beg you in the name of God,
Amen. And the mission front, it's also
putting up the fire station, the hospitals, those ones, the
social media guys in their diabolical act won't talk about
it. And they were talking about the
in some free prisons and other things.
Go on. OK, so there's another police
station. If you have ever travelled on
the stretch from Kintampo to Tamali and your car has got spot
in the middle of the night and somebody has come from the Bush
to attack you, appreciate the presence of this police station
on that stretch, very quiet stretch.
Imagine so the things we are doing.
If you don't understand, please ask so they will explain them to
you. If you have ever lived there
before or travel along that street before, you appreciate
these things that we do. Please go on, Please go on.
And this one used to Chrome Fire station used to Chrome fire
station that this one fully finished fully everything and
handed over to the Ghana National Fire Service from the
church showing the love of God and also extending our
missionary work. So anyone who lives around that
space at least will know that there's a fire station in there.
Next one. So now we move to the E church
by way of reaching out to those who are in who are who live
alone and work far away from home.
For instance, some of our some of our colleagues and our
friends are in school in some of the remotest places on earth.
Some of them via work will take them away from man's and they'll
be on the seas for weeks and months.
No access to church. So the E church is the church
which is E in the air for those who work in such places or those
who are, who are lonely and have been, you know, taken away.
And it also is also there for, for for those who accept Christ
in the Arabic world where they cannot have access to physical
interaction at church as we do. So the E church is therefore all
these groups, another way of extending our mission work to
everybody in the world. So we have the E studios in New
Jersey in the US, we have another one in Accra and in
India daily. And all these things as we are
here, they're also there meeting in the air, meeting in the air.
So all these things are ways that we are expanding the
missions work. So the missions work now is
sophisticated and we also need sophisticated a means, means to
reach them. Go on, please.
We also have the Bible schools now.
We don't have a just in Ghana, we have one in Europe.
In the UK, Birmingham Christian is a colleague or whatever.
They are there to train all the ministers and officers in
Europe. And in the Middle East we have
the Pentecost Biblical Seminary in the US that is also doing it
for those in the US, North America and the South Americans.
We also have, OK, so another slide, it's still the US school,
very nice one at New Jersey. And we also have another one, La
Cote d'Ivoire for brothers from the Francophones.
They also go, go there to get trained.
So these people, they don't come to Ghana to be trained because
in Ghana we use English, but we needed them to also be trained
in their languages over there. So it is also there.
We also have another one in the South Africa, which is so high
and in the Sadiq region. Let's move on to health.
Health, please move on. Please be fast.
A little bit health. And when it comes to health, we
have 4 hospitals and eight clinics in Ghana, 4 hospitals
and eight clinics in Ghana. And the church is also still
spreading and pushing. So if they ask you tell them
what we are doing. The next one please.
So the next one you see is the Boga one, the one that Teshungua
area supported a lot and was open in Boga Tanga.
So when we give, we put it to a very good use.
So as we watch the movie or the documentary of our missions, be
encouraged to give a know that COP.
We are doing and we are carrying the gospel to the nations all
over the world. Thank you.
Yeah, so the media team should help us with the video before we
continue.