Samuel Mumbere

BANTAMA SDA CHURCH, KUMASI, GHANA

Bantama Seventh-Day Adventist Church was established in April 1973 by the Central Ghana Conference of SDA after a six (6) week Evangelism campaign which was held at the Ghana National Cultural Centre in Kumasi, the Garden City of West Africa. The 1973 Evangelism campaign which was led by Pastor M.A. Bediako was funded by a devoted American Evangelist and Philanthropist ,one Pastor Ford Harrison who donated Two Thousand U.S Dollars ($ 2,000.00) through the late Elder R.A. Kissi of Nkawkaw. The following ministers actively participated in the 1973 evangelism campaign: 1. Pastor David Colheart, a young Australian student missionary who was on his way to Australia after his religious assignment in the then Upper Volta now Burkina Faso. 2. Pastor Antobam from Oda District. 3. Pastor Charles Amoah, a former Amakom Church Pastor. 4. Pastor M.E Ampate, the former Kumasi District Pastor. 5. Pastor S.Y. Ampomah of Ntonso Church, and 6. Pastor V.C.B. Debrah, the former Lay Activity Director of Central Ghana Conference. There are a great number of individuals who have also contributed immensely towards the success of the church and whose names for the purpose of this work could not appear on the record. We hope and believe that God knows them all. Their reward is in heaven.