Evangelical Presbyterian Church Ghana
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church , Ghana ( Ewe : Presbyteria Nyanyui Hame le Ghana ) was founded in 1922 as part of the Evangelical Ewe Church .
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana (EPChurch) goes back to the Evangelical Ewe Church founded in May 1922 at the first synod of missions in Kpalimé , the constituent umbrella organization of the Ghanaian EP Church and the Eglise évangélique presbyterienne du Togo (EEPT) in the area from Togo .
After the former German colony of Togo was divided into a British and a French mandate zone in the wake of the First World War and the German missionaries were expelled from the country in 1921, the local representatives of the mission constituted the Evangelical Ewe Church as a constituent umbrella organization and an association of the Christian Parishes in the former German colony. The EP Church, although it was only founded in 1922 as part of the Evangelical Ewe Church, still refers to the year 1893 as the year its church was founded, the year in which the North German Mission founded the first congregation in what is now Togo (Mission Tove ).
In the period from 1923 to 1939, the British colonial power allowed the North German Mission Society to send employees. The outbreak of the Second World War, however, again interrupted the cooperation with the German missionaries. At that time, the Church in British Togo had about 40,000 members.
The EP Church (Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana) has around 200,000 believers. The head office is in Ho in the Volta region . The church languages are English, Ewe, Twi and Konkomba. Since 2001 the EP Church has been an equal member of the North German Mission, which consists of the Ghanaian EPChurch, the EEPT from Togo and four German churches. There are 13 overseas partnerships, including a. to churches in the United States, Britain, and Korea.
The church is a member of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) and the World Fellowship of Reformed Churches .
Web links
- Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana on WCC website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Juditz Niermann: booklet for One World Bible: Educational material. Bremen 2007.
- ↑ Who or what is the “Bremen Mission”? ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Evangelical Presbyterian Church (a short chronology)
- ↑ Juditz Niermann: booklet for One World Bible: Educational material. Bremen 2007.
