U.S. Missionaries took the Gospel to Africa; now, Africans are taking it back to America 

By James Kokulo Fasuekoi|Editor-Publisher

This may sound unbelievable but it’s true. God used U.S Missionaries to carry the Good News of Jesus Christ to Africa over half a century ago. Now, God is leading African nationals (indigenous) to take the Gospel back to America, by helping to win lost souls. 

“Americans brought the Gospel to us…now we’re bringing it back to America,” Pastor Joseph Ajayi, a known immigrant preacher who heads the Minnesota branch of Winners Chapel, declared Sunday, Aug. 20th at the dedicatory service of a new African church here in Louis Park, MN.

“God is in Minnesota,” he exclaimed, amid deep sighs, and added: “God is using Africans to take back America (through the Gospel).” Rev. Ajayi served as guest preacher for the colorful dedication of Power of Faith Prayer Ministry International, led by Pst. Tina G. Nyemah. 

Two of Spiritual Life Church’s pastors and elders, Pst. Gordon Peterson and wife Pst. Nancy Peterson, together with SLC’s Bible College & Seminary Dean, Pst. Nancy Sky, all took turns offering prayers and performing the robin cutting. All three previously taught Tina in Biblical Theology.      

Speaking further, Pastor Ajayi cited his own church as testimony, explaining that it initially began as a fellowship group in an apartment before it grew bigger. “[Winners] started in an apartment but now, sits on 6.8 acres of land today,” he told the gathering.

Ajayi also named the newly erected Ebenezer Community Church of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, as another proof, a church established by a Liberian couple, with a huge followers of Africans from Liberia, and worth some US. 6 million dollars.     

African women are among those God is setting up to spread His message to the nations as scores are already enrolled with Bible colleges and seminaries here. Pst. Martha Foley, ordained recently, runs Hope Tabernacle Ministries in Coon Rapids while Pst. Tina has been preaching since her ordination in 2021. Both are Liberians and currently attend Spiritual Life Bible College.

Trial before church dedication 

For years Pastor Tina and her husband, Nyemah prayed and asked God to suitably have their small church of mostly African immigrants, situated in a bigger church-home, from its office setting location in Minneapolis’ northeastern city of New Brighton.

The LORD God answered their prayer this year, and all went well from finding the new church in Minneapolis at an appealing rate, to getting the edifice renovated for a reasonable amount. Soon, the excited Liberian couple, together with their fast-growing congregation set August 20th as the date for the dedication ceremony.

Two weeks before the event, tragedy struck the family; Pastor Tina’s husband, Nyemah, came down with a stroke that rendered him paralyzed: he couldn’t speak nor walk, Tina told Global Ekklesia recently at her new church location. 

That wasn’t all. City and state authorities also zoomed in on Tina, just about this period and demanded to see additional paperwork for the new church before they could let them operate in the city of St. Louis Park, she narrated with a grim look on her face.

For Pastor Tina, a tongue-speaking Pentecostal-style worshiper with prophetic gift, she knew right away who the culprit behind this tragedy was. “It was the devil,” she said.

Note: Banner photograph (L-R), Pastor Tina helps Pastor Nancy Sky (C), and Pastor Nancy Peterson perform unveiling ceremonies. All pictures by James Kokulo Fasuekoi

James Kokulo Fasuekoi is an award-winning journalist, author, documentary writer and news photographer. He previously covered civil wars in West Africa for several news media including The Associated Press. He became a Bush Foundation Scholar twice in 2017. His work as a civil war journalist has brought him face-to-face with the law in his native Liberia, and in the US, where the Fed had him subpoenaed twice to stand as states witness in two major Liberian ‘war crimes trials’ of 2017 & 2018 in Philadelphia. Once an African national ballet dancer, he now writes, photographs and dances for Christ. Read profile @ https://globalekklesia.com/profile/