By Elorm Yao Aryee
The Volta Ghana Mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has received five motorbikes and 500 Bibles to strengthen evangelism in hard-to-reach communities across the Volta Region.
The donation is expected to improve the mobility of pastors serving in remote areas where difficult terrain makes it challenging to propergate the gospel. Four of the motorbikes were donated by the United States-based charity, Quiet Hour Ministries, after an appeal for assistance, while the church mobilised its own resources to purchase the fifth motorbike.
The organisation also donated gospel materials to support evangelism.The Mission has set a target for each of the five motorbike recipients to win at least 150 new converts by November 2030, with the overall goal of reaching 750 people through the initiative.
At a brief ceremony in Ho to present the items to the recipients, the President of Volta Ghana Mission seventh Day Adventist Church, Pastor Paul Horvey Mawutor said many ministers struggle to access remote settlements because of poor road networks, making the motorbikes a vital tool for expanding the church’s outreach.
“Basically, most of our ministers, due to the terrain in which we live, are not able to do, and some find it very difficult to reach members that are far. We’re talking about mountainous areas, villages, crossing rivers, and all that. So these motorbikes are to help them enhance the gospel ministry, to take the gospel ministry to people who are very difficult to reach”, he said.
“From now and 2030, November, we are tasking them win 150 souls each, which means 600. We know they are capable, and by the grace of God, they may even exceed”, Pastor Horvey Mawutor added.
The Personal Mission Director ofVolta Ghana Mission, Pastor Jacob Mawandor Binyam on behalf of the recipientsassured the donors that the motorbikes will be used strictly for missionary work and not for personal purposes.
“I want to use the opportunity to thank the Most High God and the Quiet Hour Ministry for reaching out even beyond the oceans, across the oceans, to help us in this great exercise. I want to assure you, by the grace of God, the fear of God, and the love for the perishing souls, that these motorbikes will not be used for our personal selfish interests. They are going to be used solely for the advancement of the cause of God’s work. In fact, we want to assure you the motorbikes will increase the man hours, the contact hours, so that what would have taken even a week to do, we can use just even days, or even hours, to do. What would have used a month to do, a week should be sufficient. So it means that the motorbikes have now give us that impetus to be able to take the Gospel even farther than that which we could without the motorbikes”, Pastor Mawandor Binyam stated.
Beyond evangelism, the Mission said it is also committed to improving the well-being of communities through health outreach programmes, including public education on drug abuse prevention and other social challenges.
The Mission appealed to individuals and organisations to support its ministry saying that any assistance will be used responsibly to advance both its spiritual and community development programmes.
