"A Soul have been restored"

Today is a new day and a blessed day for the College church. The message you are reading today, is about the joy we have had since our old member ( one of our leaders) have come back after he told us he is not going to worship with us again. He left because, he accused the church for not allowing him to preach. Well, we have done our best to talk to him and he was not listening so, he decided to quit fellowshipping with us. But , since he is our brother, we keep praying and visiting him until today the Lord has restored him back.

Well, Brethren, today Lawrence did not worship with the College church due to an assignment he had with the Yahoman church of Christ. Yahoman church is one of the churches Lawrence is working with this church is located in one of the Typical rural village around Amasaman is about 45 minutes drive away from My home. I was invited by the church there to officiate a naming ceremony. christian couples there have new born baby girl and I outdoor this child by naming the child. Please pray for the church in Yahoman because the church is really facing problem in church attendance. the attendance of the membership which include me and the minister is 6 and the visiting families who came to witness the ceremony were 8. The giving was ¢68,000 less than $10 USD.

Today at College church of Christ , Brother Emmanuel Asante Preached and he did a very good job since that was his first of Preaching. Yesterday saturday the Youth of College church first met and organized themselves to start a strong Youth Ministry. The following People are the leaders of the Youth Ministry;

Peter Obeng - T he Youth President
Samson Yamoah - The Vice President
David Opoku - The scretary
Rita Debrah - The Treasurer.

I am acting as the Youth Minister

The children ( Both Toddlers and the intermediate Class) are travelling to Amasaman church of Christ to have a joint Bible study with the Children in Amasaman church. This is one of the Programmes the children have in their curriculum.

Todays songs was led by Leonard Lamptey, Lawrence's younger brother. The Lord's Supper was led by Brother Mereku assisted by Peter Obeng and Samson Yamoa.
The Bible reading was done by Paul Amisah (read in Twi) and Brother Quao (read in Ewe).

The attendance for today was very encouraging and you can see that as follow:

CHILDREN: Toddlers = 16
Intermediate= 12 = 28

ADULTS: Women = 11
Men = 19 = 30

VISITOR: Woman = 1

RESTORATION: Man = 1

TOTAL 70

Giving : ¢ 115, 000/ GH¢ 11 50Gh Pws. / Les than $20 USD

Friday the church have Prayers and Singing. We will remind you all in our prayers.

God be with you all.

"Worship Service"

We are very sorry in delaying this post of the informations we have bring on sunday after church service, this is due to electricity power off.
It is always joy to let you know what is going on here in the College church sincere the love of Christ lived in all of us.

Sunday worship started in a very good mood when Brother Emmanuel Asante led the congregation in a morning devotion with about 11 members present at about 9:30AM. Exactly 10:00AM Our interim minister Brother Eric De-graft Otoo led the church in songs and the master of worship. We sung so beautifuly from our new "Twi" (a local Ghanaian language) hymn book which we baught. It is a book which has a translation of some of the songs from the English hymn book.

Sermon was preached by Lawrence Lamptey from the Book of Galatians 3 :27
The Lord's table was led by Brother Emmanuel Asante and assisted by Paul Amisah and Yamoah. First Prayer was given by Brother Quao , Inter sectional prayer was led by Brother Darku Edward and the closing Prayer was finally led by Brother Bismark Okyere.

The attendance for sunday worship is as follows:

CHILDREN: Toddlers: = 12
Intermediate = 11

ADULT : Women = 14
Men = 15
TOTAL 5 2
GIVING ¢166,900 / 16GH¢ 69PWs / less than $20 equivalent.

From our record, this number shows that the attendance has declined therefore, the whole church left for a visitation to all the brenthren who did not come to church on sunday . Unfortunately, we visited one of the leaders of the church who was seriousely sick and even could not walk. we prayed and sung with her and wish her all the best.

We then move to know others home and also visited our regular visiter. This movement was done by the whole church including some of the children, and it was so joyful.

NOTE: Please, we are pleading to you to support our minister sincere he is not being paid therefore, we think with your liittle support of $20 US a month will go a long way to put him in a position to work with us. We are begging you all. In Jesus Name.

With Love from Brothers and sisters here to you all.

"Bless Be The tie that binds us together"

Thank God is yet another Sunday. We give praise and thanks to our maker and comforter for His love and sacrifice.

At about 9:30AM one of the faithful brothers ( Brother Emmanuel Asante) led the congregation in a 30 minutes devotion where brethren sung and pray to God.`Worship started at 10:AM and was so wonderful that brethren were touched by the message that came. The total Membership for today's worship can be seen as follows;

CHILDREN:

Todlers : 10

Intermediate : 15 = 25

ADULTS

Women : 11

Men : 18 = 29

TOTAL 54

GIVING : ¢149,300 = 14GH¢ 93pesswas that is less than $20US.

Todays sermon was delivered by Brother Lawrence Lamptey. He spoke 3 different languages- English and two other Ghanaian local language ( Twi and Ewe). The sermon was taken from the Book of 2Kings chapter 5:1. The topic was "Honorable...but a leper"

Brother Mereku led the Lord's table and young brothers Nana Opoku and Daniel Tagbor assited. The song leader for today was Brother Emmanue Asante.

Children Class: Mrs. Faustina Lamptey taught the toddlers- 2-5yrs class. They did colour work today. some of the things they coloured were, fish, Boat, Star, angles, and inscription such as God, Jesus, Go, come, and finally they studies a memory verse.

The intermediate class was taught by Brother Dominc Quashie, they ended a study on Cain and able which they started two weeks ago. This class has children who are all students and most of them can read and write.

Today we did not have Bible class as we use to do after church service every Sunday, just because of a great fellowship coming in October. On the church's record we have what we call "Preacher's Appreciation Day" and this is coming on in the last Sunday in October. Therefore, the church met as one family today and discussed how the programme should be on that faithful day. It is so nice to see members contributing. Therefore, the whole church have decided to fellowship together. individual are going to prepare their food to church then, gift from individuals shall be collected to be given to the Preacher to show our appreciation to him for the good work he continue to do for us. "what do you think? I can imagine how beautiful that Day will be. We wish you were here. But don't worry , we will update you on what ever goes on here".

Today, the student of Heritage Cristian College did not worship with us because they are on vacation they will resume in two weeks time therefore , brethren were people from the 3 different communities which most of them walk to church. the walking distance is about 5-15munites.

Today, Our Interim minister did not worship with us , he was on an assignment in a different town. Therefore, Brother Lawrence took over and Direct all the activities.

Please, continue to remember us in your prayers for we need more prayer support.

We continue to remind you that , we have open our arms to anybody who want to worship with us. If you want to volunteer too just call us.

Please, distribute our blog address to your church members that will be very good of you.

www.collegecofc.blogspot.com

+233 277 314921

The Blog is posted by Lawrence Lamptey

"College Church of Christ Salute you"

May the good Lord Bless you for taking the time to visit our Blog. We therefore encourage you to continue to visit here every Sunday after church service. we are going to do our best to post everything that went on in our Sunday worship and Bible study.

But First, permit us to use this opportunity to introduce ourself which is very important in life.

We would like to thank you for visiting our blog and extend an invitation to you to come and worship with us. The Bible instructs on how we are to worship. The book of John, chapter 4, verse 24 tells us not only that we are to worship God, but it tells us how we must worship, it says worship God "in Spirit and truth". This is what we are earnestly trying to do at College Church of Christ.

College Church of Christ is a growing congregation, with about 65 worshipers on Sunday morning. We have Bible classes for all ages after the Sunday morning worship service and at the week days Bible study on Friday nights.

The College Church of Christ congregation was established in the 18th June, 2006 when Churches of Christ Student Union in Ghana began a two weeks house -to-house evangelism after which a strong follow up effort was made by two young evangelists- Ev. Garpue Lieway and Lawrence Lamptey. Few accepted the Gospel and gave themselves to Christ in Baptism This was the beginning of our congregation. Our first meeting took place on 18th June, 2006 with 11 people. The Church was established to serve the Heritage Christian College and the Communities around her. The church is actively involved in Outreach ministry and Benevolence efforts. Our formal minister (Evg. Garpue Lieway) left to study in Abilene Christian University Abeline-Texas therefore, we have a volunteer minister who is serving as the interim minister( Mr.Otoo Eric De-graft) he happens to be the Administrator for the Heritage Christian College-Ghana

The church has committed men of God who are leaders of the church and two faithful women who are the women group leaders.

The church can now boast of a strong reliable youth and children ministry and has a total membership of 34 on Sunday morning with about 29 baptized members and 5 regular visitors.

Worship= 10AM - 11:30AM

Bible Study= 11:30AM - 12:30 after noon

1st and 2nd Fridays in a month = Bible Study = 7PM - 8PM

3rd and 4th Fridays in a month- Prayers= 7PM-8PM

College church also runs a ministry Caregivers Ministry founded by Lawrence Lamptey. This is actively involved in Preaching the Gospel through Provision of Basic Human Needs. We are reminded of the Connection between helping the Poor and the opportunity for winning their souls for Christ and bringing them to an intimate relationship with both the Lord Jesus and the Church.

We will love to hear from you often.Moreover, you can contact us anytime you are visiting Ghana.

COLLEGE CHURCH OF CHRIST

P O BOXAM 68

AMASAMAN -GA WEST DISTRICT

ACCRA-GHANA

collegecofc@gmail.com

+233 277 314921

blog site: collegecofc.blogspot.com