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Our 30-year story.
From six believers and dawn prayers to The Palace and four branches. Hear it from our General Overseer, then scroll through the story.
Thirty years, in his own words.
Rev. Dr. Bernard Mensa Adams, General Overseer of International Palace Church, on how IPC began, what has kept it and where it is going. Pick a question to jump straight to it.
Chapters
"Sometimes leadership can be a lonely walk. What you believe that God has led you to do, you must stand for it."
"I am not only referring to the rhetoric sense of grace. I'm talking about the experiential sense of the grace of God."
"Thinking back for 30 years, I see God's graceful restoration."
- 1997
A call, and six who believed
After Bible school he felt inadequate and kept putting it off. About six people, with his wife beside him, believed in someone who did not yet believe in himself. That was the start of IPC.
- The early days
Praying at dawn
The old church was too small, and IPC needed a place to call its own. Four people prayed every dawn, from 3:30 to 6 a.m., almost directly opposite where The Palace stands today.
- A step of faith
A $1,000 seed
All the money the church had was $1,000. At a programme he felt led to sow it as a seed to the man of God, believing God for a place of our own.
- A month later
The $3,000 deposit
A member in Europe sent a $3,000 tithe, and it became the deposit on the land. "Sometimes leadership can be a lonely walk," he says. "What you believe God has led you to do, you must stand for it."
- Paying for the land
Everyone gave
A fellow minister had a taxi to sell, and the landowners needed a car, so it went to them as payment and he was repaid later. A brother in Europe sent money, and the church added what it could, until The Palace was a place we could call our own.
- Three decades
Faithful and growing
Kept by "the experiential sense of the grace of God", and by faithful, loyal members, some of whom have been here for 30 years. The family now includes branches at East Legon, East Legon Hills, Amasaman and Atomic.
- 2027
IPC at 30
A year of thanksgiving and the start of the next chapter: winning the lost for Christ, opening more branches and raising heroes. Your story is part of it.
Raising heroes.
"That everyone's life will affect somebody, and everyone will dare to make somebody better than they met that person."
A church free of competition and intimidation, where everyone is respected for who they are in Christ, whatever their background. The next chapter: winning the lost for Christ and opening more branches.