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Our History
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The Love
Community Chapel began after a series of divine confrontations with God
by Rev. George Ayiku.
As the Spearhead of the church, he together with his wife Veronica Ayiku
dreaded the waters of ministry and laid their lives down for the
founding of the church. Strongly supported by the dedication and
commitment of Rev Maxwell Akuffo, Rev.Mrs Comfort Akuffo, Rev. Thomas
Aryee.
Mrs. Mary
Aryee, they engaged in a week-long intensive evangelism that registered
sixty-five people during the first Sunday church service on the 7th
February 1999 at kaneshie, Accra. The first meeting was held under hired
canopies, praising and worshipping God on the bare red earth floor. All
musical instruments and chairs were hired, and by its fifth meeting it
had recorded a significant and unprecedented growth of over three
hundred worshippers.
By a strong motivation leadership he was able to inspire confidence in
the congregation to put up a temporary auditorium within three months of
meeting. By the grace of God, the church was able to purchase the entire
meeting place together with the house of the then landlord, and
converted it into church offices.
At the onset of its establishment the founding members in their firm
faith believed that love is the greatest of all virtues (1Cor.13:13) and
gave expression to same in the motto “ His Banner Over Me Is Love”.
The founding members are committed to running the church to
transparency, accountability and integrity.
As such Love Community Chapel was brought under the authority of an
Executive Council as defined in Article 6- under the Governing Body of
the Constitution of the church.
The church now has a congregation numbering 1500 people.
The Giant Missionary Institute was established to train men and women in
ministry for missions and church planting. Hence the missionary drive of
the church was so strong that the first students that graduated set off
to start churches. Ever since, the church has planted 45 missionary
churches, most of which are pastured by lay pastors.The church has
churches in neighbouring Togo, and has been able to penetrate no go
Moslem areas in the northern part of Ghana.
There are six churches planted there. In all the church has eleven
full-time salaried pastors, and four full-time salaried lay staff. In
2005 the church also initiated a vocational center to train men and
women in tie and dye and batik, and also in catering. Currently the
courses are heavily subsidized by the church, and are virtually free.
The church’s social responsibility is at the heart of her vision, to
bring her membership to a place of dignity, and to improve the economic
well being of her members through the vocational center, and the
offering of soft loans to her members to undertake business ventures.
The church also grants scholarships to deprived members to attend higher
institutions of learning. Though young, the church is giving expression
to her name love, and impacting her membership through strong pastoral
care, thus winning more souls to the Lord in the community where it is
cited.
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