History of The Church of Pentecost - Pastor Emmanuel Osei-Akosah

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.