This Sunday, 23rd February 2025, an induction service will be held at the Trinity Congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), in the Kutunse district in the Ga Presbytery of the PCG to mark the official commencement of another chapter of the ministry of Rev. Dr. Chris Baah Nartey, the ‘Game Changer’, as he has come to be known.
It is now the turn of the Kutunse congregation and the entire district to experience the rare spiritual nourishment and transformational leadership that congregations and the Christian community within the Krobo enclave in the Dangme-Tongu Presbytery were blessed with for the fourteen years that the young, charismatic, and exceptionally gifted Presbyterian minister served in that space.
After his commissioning in 2010, his first station was at the Hebron congregation at Nuaso in the Manya Kpongunor District where he made an incalculable impact on the lives and spiritual growth of the congregants. Other noticeable impacts were the hike in membership and the vibrancy that was injected into the church’s services and other religious programmes such as the regularly held revivals. As a result, what was otherwise a relatively young congregation soon took its place of pride among the churches in the area.
At the Bethel congregation, Kpong, his second station, one enduring legacy that stands to his credit aside from the rise in the numbers was the creation of the Kpong district and the elevation of the Bethel congregation to the status of a district head under his leadership.
Then at the Zimmermann congregation in the Odumase district where he served as the district minister before his transfer to the Ga West Presbytery, he crafted and expertly rolled out a plan to, among others, win new souls and backsliders and introduce a special third service targeted principally at a segment of the youth in the community who badly needed that ‘special attention’.
He also made a conscious effort to identify and hone talents in the youth; initiate the construction of a more convenient place of worship for the children’s service and manifested his sense of social responsibility through numerous charitable projects targeted, in large part, at widows and orphans and students.
These were some of the initiatives and achievements that endeared him so much to the people and made his exit from the Krobo area and the Dangme-Tongu Presbytery a rather sad development for the people who were looking forward to having more of him.
As the Kutunse chapter of his ministry begins this weekend, we can only imagine what is about to unfold under the auspices of the ‘Game Changer’, and the freshly minted Doctor of Letters.
The writer, Henking A. Adjase-Kodjo, is a Public Relations/Development Communication practitioner, a freelance journalist, an activist writer, a blogger, an incurable social worker and a culture enthusiast from Odumase-Krobo. Email: [email protected]
