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Samuel and Jonhild Dunya–Ghana, West Africa
Sam (Ghana) and Jonhild (Faroe Islands) met aboard the Youth with a Mission ship, Anastasis, where both worked, traveling from country to country in ministry. With a missions vision Sam began studies at Bethany College of Missions. Later he and Jonhild were married, and both completed studies at the college. The Dunyas were led by God back to Sam’s home country in 1995.
Since then they have seen more than forty churches planted, new leaders trained, and agricultural projects undertaken to help Ghanaian Christians become self-supporting and able to contribute to ministry.
One of the churches was started after a desperately sick man was carried into a meeting at the church where Sam was pastor. He received prayer and was able to walk back to his village. The village people were so amazed that they too wanted a church. The man became a believer and is now pastor of the new church.
A few years ago Sam and a team went to a village and announced to the village chiefs that they wanted to start a church. They were soundly rejected and told that the village did not need or want a church.
Later a team returned to the village and announced that a medical team would treat people’s illnesses at no cost; they were welcomed.
After treating people, the team determined that water used to drink, cook, bath, and irrigate was near where the cattle grazed and was the source of many illnesses. They offered to drill a 180 foot deep well to provide the clean water people needed.
On dedication day for the new well, in May 2008, people gathered to thank God for the fresh water and hear an evangelistic message by visiting pastor George Foster. Afterwards, the village leaders called Sam and Jonhild, “Come see something we have for you.”
The leaders led them to a plot of roped-off cleared land and said, “This is for you to build a church.”
Sam and Jonhild have four children and live in the capital city of Accra where they supervise the work throughout the country and plan for new church plants in the capital.
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