The story of Restoration Christian Church — how it began, how it grew, and how it became a self-governing Ghanaian church movement.
The story begins with letters. In the early 1960s, Ghanaian Christians began writing to Bible colleges in America simply asking, "please send us some Bibles." That correspondence grew into a relationship between Ghanaian believers and independent Christian Churches in America — and eventually brought the first American missionaries to Ghana in 1963. Within a few years, a Bible college had been founded, first in Kumasi and then in Accra, training the first generation of Ghanaian church leaders.
What began as a small class of students became Ghana Christian University College, training pastors and church planters across the country. As graduates went out, local congregations multiplied — many in towns and villages rather than cities, following a deliberate "reach the un-reached" approach.
What started as the United Christian Churches Brotherhood became, in 2004, the Fellowship of Christian Churches — a growing network that would eventually count over 250 branches across Ghana.
In 2014, the Fellowship of Christian Churches took the name it carries today — Restoration Christian Church — alongside a new constitution and a ten-year strategic plan. The change marked a deliberate shift: from a structure dependent on outside support toward a self-governing, self-supporting, Ghanaian-led church.
That journey toward independence wasn't without cost or difficulty, but it shaped the church's conviction that local leadership, local ownership, and local mission matter. Restoration Christian Church, Gateway Assembly carries that same conviction into Nsawam — a congregation built on the belief that faith here should be lived out by us, for our community.