Mayenda Church, the 114year old Church

The official history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ghana says the church is 120years old. In a remote village in the Central Region of Ghana stands a church building that was built in 1896 according to church members of the SDA church at Mayenda.

A banner hanging in the temple announces to worshippers and visitors that the church at Mayenda was 100years old in 1994; meaning the centenary celebrations of the SDA Church in Mayenda was held in 1994. Today, the church is 114years and its church building 112years old.

Below are some pictures of old church building, a mission house and some historical relics of the church. It will interest you to know two of the relics (chairs) are claimed to have been used by missionaries a century ago. Let's go to Mayenda now!


Inside view of the old temple
church building(white and blue) and the mission house

Front view of the church building
Front view of the mission house
The chairs claimed to be over a century old
some church members and officers of the GUC team

Leaders of Ghana Union Conference Visit Chairman of Council of State, Ghana

The Ghana Union Conference led by the Presidet, Ps Samuel Adama Larmie, paid a courtesy call on the Chairman of the Council of State, Prof Adzei Bekoe at his office in Accra on March 19, 2008.

The Chairman of the Council of State was briefed on the Church's activities in Ghana and some of the challenges faced by its members. He was especially briefed on the plight of Adventists Students in public tertiary institutions who face the problem of writing examinations on the Sabbath. The President appealed to him to help the church leadership reopen negotiations with all the universities on the issue.

Prof Adzei Bekoe was sympathetic towards the plight of the students and promised to help the Church initiate some consultations with the government. He was full of praises for the Church saying "I am fully aware of all the contributions the church has made towards the development of the country and this is commendable".

Ps Larmie who was accompanied by the Executive Secretary,Pastor Ambrose Waahu, and the Treasurer, Elder Isaac O. Amponsem and the Communication Director, Solace Asafo, presented a set of book to Prof Adzei Bekoe.