Rev. B. Timothy Appau

Work

After graduating from ARI’s Rural Leaders Training Program in 2001 Rev. Bernard Timothy Appau returned to his work as a Pastor and Project Coordinator for Savior Baptist Church of Ghana to continue ministering to his rural congregation and implementing community development projects. He is currently working with young adults and single women to teach them income generating skills, such as weaving and bee keeping.  He has also started a small demonstration farm, where he teaches low cost sustainable methods of raising crops, vegetables, and livestock. His farm has grown to include four pig pens and a variety of fresh vegetables.

Rev. Appau has also been working to help eliminate malaria by helping to distribute free mosquito nets through a non-government organization called His Nets. This group gives nets to pregnant women, children under five and sickle cell patients as a priority. In June of 2005 they distributed 1,800 nets to three districts with particularly high rates of malaria. They have also made large donations of nets to hospitals, including a Muslim hospital for an additional children’s ward. Follow-up assessment shows a marked reduction in malaria.

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Organization

The Kumasi Southwest Baptist Association (KSBA) is a part of the Ghana Baptist Convention, founded ten years before the country gained independence from Britain. The KSBA serves forty-eight churches with a membership of around 2,000. Over eighty percent of the communities in KSBA are in rural areas and dependant on agriculture. With a large emphasis on evangelism, each church is expected to utilize sixty percent of its income and resources to help build churches and uplift fellow congregations. The church also places great importance on developing job building skills, focusing on young adults.