{"id":20561,"date":"2014-12-21T19:05:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T00:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/africa_partners_evangelical_presbyterian\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T08:06:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T13:06:23","slug":"africa_partners_evangelical_presbyterian","status":"publish","type":"partner","link":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/africa_partners_evangelical_presbyterian\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana is an established partner of Global Ministries, having been founded in the 1840&#8217;s by the Breman Mission of Germany among the Ewe people of what was then considered German Togoland.&nbsp; After World War 1, Togoland was divided as a spoil of war between Britain and France.&nbsp; The Ewe people were politically divided between Anglophone Ghana and Francophone Togo, and the Church became divided as well.&nbsp; The United Church Board for World Ministries began its involvement with the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ghana in 1946.<\/p>\n<p>The EP Church, Ghana is one of the oldest self-governing churches in Africa, having adopted its own constitution in 1922.&nbsp; It has strong roots in the Evangelical and Reformed tradition and includes approximately 600,000 members and 512 congregations. 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