The Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has officially launched its PCG Television station to give an impetus to its evangelism programmes. The Television station goes live on Multi TV and other satellite platforms on Tuesday, 24th January, 2023.
Previously, the Church had to embark on evangelism or reach out to people through the public address systems which had been inadequate, cumbersome and risky at times.
The PCG TV, which is currently aired on Multi TV, had also come to provide the right teachings from the scriptures for many viewers across the world to build their faith into matured Christians for themselves and the Kingdom of God.
Presbyterian Church of Ghana Launches Television Station
Members of the Presbyterian church are calling on business organizations and individuals especially, members of the church and Christians in general, to patronize PCG TV to help support evangelism to win more souls for Christ and promote accelerated development of Ghana.
About Presbyterian Church Of Ghana
The Presbyterian Church of Ghana is a mainline Protestant church denomination in Ghana. The oldest, continuously existing, established Christian Church in Ghana, it was started by the Basel missionaries on 18 December 1828. The missionaries had been trained in Germany and Switzerland and arrived on the Gold Coast to spread Christianity.
The work of the mission became stronger when Moravian missionaries from the West Indies arrived in the country in 1843. In 1848, the Basel Mission Church set up a seminary, now named the Presbyterian College of Education, Akropong, for the training of church workers to help in the missionary work. The Ga and Twi languages were added as part of the doctrinal text used in the training of the seminarians.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Presbyterian church had its missions concentrated in the southeastern parts of the Gold Coast and the peri-urban Akan hinterland. By the mid-20th century, the church had expanded and founded churches among the Asante people who lived in the middle belt of Ghana as well as the northern territories by the 1940s.
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The Basel missionaries left the Gold Coast during the First World War in 1917. The work of the Presbyterian church was continued by missionaries from the Church of Scotland, the mother church of the worldwide orthodox or mainstream Presbyterian denomination. The official newspaper of the church is the Christian Messenger, established by the Basel Mission in 1883.
The denomination’s Presbyterian sister church is the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana.