Evangelist strategy to the mining communities in the Birim North District of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ghana

Abstract

This paper examines an evangelist strategy to the mining communities in the Birim North district of the Seventh-day Adventist church, Ghana. Mining activities have influenced negatively the promulgation of the gospel in the New Abirem community. The church is struggling to identify strategies that will help address challenges in the affected communities and by so doing present the gospel to them. Hence, this paper seeks to evaluate various evangelist strategies and propose based on available data, strategies that could be implemented in the community to win souls for Christ. The stratified random sampling approach was used in the data collection using a structured questionnaire for 100 people and the descriptive analysis tools were used to analyse the data collected. The analysis shows that mining has influenced negatively the community in such a way that the Seventh-day Adventist church should identify and implement evangelist strategies that would alleviate poverty, ensure growth and development and restore hope in the people. I conclude that though the proposed sample size was 100, a total of 80 participants were used in arriving at the conclusion, since a lot were not familiar with the use of the internet. It can also be concluded that the traditional method used by the Seventh-day Adventist church in the community was not effective in meeting the practical needs of the community. A number of the strategies have to be combined to meet the different needs of the community and thereby reach them with the gospel.