About Us

My journey began in Dzodze, in the Volta Region in Ghana, West Africa. I am the 9th born in a family of 12 children. I was educated in the Christian faith, first during my primary education, and then later in middle school. I attended a host of schools managed by clergy from the Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics faiths. My faith, however, was greatly included by my parents who belonged to a small Christian sect called First Century Gospel Church. This group believed in having a thorough knowledge of the Bible, and in faith healing. It was a very supportive church community in every respect. I will never forget their prayers and other support when I announced to them at a tender age that I intended to go to the United States to study. Even after my father’s death, prior to my immigration to the U.S.This community continued to pray for me as I grew physically, mentally, and spiritually, and gave me the moral support I needed. Then came the day when my hard work and their prayers paid off. I gained admission to the State University of New York at Stony Brook, with a partial scholarship. Thus began a new chapter in my life’s journey.

Stony Brook University enabled me to meet people from all over the world. I experienced different cultures and various foods which I would never have experienced if I had gone to university in Ghana. I traveled from coast to coast as a student. I earned both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in Economics from Stony Brook. Shortly after, I relocated to Cincinnati to work. I returned to Stony Brook two and a half years later to earn a Master of Science. in Industrial Management. I then took some time off to see more of the country, and finally settled in New York City where I taught in a Lutheran school. The next year, I helped to set up the St. Paul Community School in Brooklyn, New York, where Bishop Johnny Ray Youngblood was the pastor. Thereafter, I worked in the finance and insurance industries for over 13 years where I managed over
with five million dollars in assets under my management. It was during the 13th year working in the industry that I finally answered God’s call to become a pastor.

I did not think that I had any special talent for being a pastor. However, before graduation, Bishop Margaret Payne and other bishops came to the seminary to interview the seniors, and on May 24, 2009, I was ordained as a Lutheran minister by Bishop Payne in Worchester MA. at the New England Synod Assembly. Then I was called to pastor Resurrection Lutheran Church in Roxbury, a church I knew nothing about. This marked the beginning of another chapter in my life’s journey.
God has taken this ordinary woman from a town called Dzodze (which literally means “flown and landed,”) to thirty-seven states in the USA, as well as to the UK, France, Germany, Egypt, India, and Israel. My greatest blessings, though, are my wonderful daughter Sika, and son-in-law, John Paul, and my precious grandson, Dzidzorli. I believe that as with Nehemiah, God has brought me to Resurrection to lead the Resurrection family to welcome and serve our neighbors to build this part of God’s glorious Kingdom.