Students- In- Church- Evangelism (SICE) is the annual GHAFES outreach programme that reaches rural communities in Ghana with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Over the years, it has been restricted to communities found in the southern part of the country.

 Praise be to God! GHAFES has extended its scope of SICE to the northern part of Ghana. It was very successful and awesome.

 The programme run from the 12th to the 25th of August 2009. It took place at the West Mamprusi District of the Northern Region. It involved five communities which were Nayoko, Diani, Tinguri, Wungu and Zangum.

 Almost all the communities had about 80-90% Islamic population. In all19 students participated with an average of four (4) in each community. Only 5 out of the total number of students were females.

MAIN ACTIVITIES

The major activities that run through most of the communities were dawn broadcast, house to house evangelism, leadership seminar, youth seminar, marriage seminar, community prayer meetings and crusades.
 
TESTIMONIES

    * In all over 3000 people were reached with the gospel, out of which about 1000 gave their lives to Christ, including Moslems.
    * The sick were ministered to on a daily basis. This attracted wonderful testimonies which include:

         1. A woman who had been bleeding from her nostrils for about 5 years was healed after she had been prayed for.
         2. A woman, who couldn’t carry a bucket of water because of a heart problem, received healing in Jesus’ name and was strengthened to carry 5 different basins of water.
         3. Another person was unable to turn her neck freely because of some skin rashes she had been suffering from. By God’s grace, she could turn her neck the day after she was prayed for, and the rash had begun to heal as well.
         4. In one of the communities, a woman had been diagnosed to be suffering from hypertension was prayed for. She was declared “hypertension-free” the following day when she reported at the hospital.

    * “I slept like a fool” was the honest testimony of a man who had been having nightmares because of spiritual attacks, after he had been prayed for a day before. Glory to God!
    * A young Muslim in one of the communities who got converted by God’s grace, just afterwards, spoke to three different people and led them all to Christ all by himself.
    * A school dropout was willing to go back to school after GHAFES student missionaries interacted with him.

CHALLENGES

I.                   The communities there are poverty stricken leading to rural-urban migration and its disadvantages.

II.                There were Pastors and Church leaders who were drunkards, and some who were at loggerheads with each another.

III.             The dominance of Islam was also a challenge. An instance is when the missionaries in one of the communities were warned and threatened if they ever entered a particular house again.

From that same house, a woman who gave her life to Christ was beaten up by her husband for making the decision.

IV.             The brethren in Zangum in particular suffered series of demonic attacks. Almost all the time at night, they heard strange sounds of gun shots and drumming on their rooftop anytime they made an effort to sleep.

 

Through it all, God has been good. To Him be all the glory.  

                                                                                     Gyabaah Yeboah Victor

                                                                                      National Service Personnel

Updated: 17th November 2009