HOW IT ALL STARTED

16 years ago, Apostle Kelvin Cobi Gbingor Washington arrived in Ghana with his newly wedded wife, Mrs. Abena Washington. They lived in his mother’s house at Achimota-Abofu.

Superficially, it was for their honeymoon but God had other plans. One evening, as Apostle was taking his shower, He found himself asking God what H e wanted him to do. He heard the lovely voice of God saying, “go to the ghetto behind your house and testify of me, tell them of the wonderful things I have done for you.” He heeded to the Lord.

The next day, Apostle went to the ghetto behind his house. Supernaturally, the whole ghetto gravitated towards him and he started preaching the gospel to them. After sharing what the Lord had placed on his heart, he gave them some money. Later, he spotted a friend called Ben who was also in the midst of the addicts. Ben came from a well-to-do family and his father was a politician. Unfortunately, he ended up in the ghetto as an addict.

Apostle approached Ben and while they were having a conversation, Apostle asked God what he should do for Ben. God impressed it upon his heart that if he was the one in that state, what would he have expected God to do for him. Immediately, Apostle knew he had to take Ben home so he said to Ben, “I can’t leave you here, I have to take you home.”

So Apostle brought Ben home and asked his wife to bear with him. His wife was very understanding and allowed Ben to stay with them. Miraculously, Ben didn’t go through any withdrawal symptoms (cold turkey). God just took it out of his system. Morning after morning, Ben was in shock because he was not experiencing any withdrawal symptoms and no detoxification was carried out on him. God then said to Apostle, “If you continue to do this, I will take the withdrawal symptoms away supernaturally and no one will ever die in your care”, and for 15 years now no one has ever died. Though people came into the rehab looking like they were going to die, God has been faithful.

The following week, Apostle took Ben to the ghetto on a Wednesday and everyone saw how nice Ben had become and how he had changed in just a week. They looked to Apostle and said, “We are also going with you, do to us what you did to Ben.” That day, Apostle had about 6 to 7 people following him back home. Wednesdays became the day for Ghetto outreaches since then and the number of rehabilitants grew from 6 to 170 men.