7 Decades of Dedication:
Celebrating a Charismatic Visionary – Rt. Rev. Dr. Nana Anyani Boadum
70 years strong!
About Rt. Rev. Dr. Anyani-Boadum
Rev. Nana Anyani-Boadum is a household name in the Christendom in Ghana. He turns 70 years old on 6th June 2024. A sentence that runs through testimonies of him by men and women of God is that “Rev Anyani-Boadum is the salt which preserves, the spice that flavours, the pudding that offers taste and the light that shines to both the church and society with unquestionable character.” Born to Opanyin Yaw Addo and Obaapanin Adwoa Akyena at Asankrangwa in the Western Region in 1954, his father named him after his brother, the chief of Asankrangwa, Nana Anyani-Buadum III. Reverend lived most of his life with his paternal uncle in the palace and learned the wisdom of the elders and our culture. He was discipled in Christianity in his early childhood by his grandmother Mercy Amponsaa and received the baptism of the Holy Spirit at the age of twelve in 1966. Since then, he has been a “voice in the wilderness,” crying, “Make straight the way of the Lord.” He founded Jesus Generation Ministries in 1982 after seven years of organising mass evangelism throughout the country. From the 1980s to date, he has been very active in CAMPUS MINISTRY at the second cycle and tertiary levels throughout the country, including the Legon Pentecostal Union, Campus Christian Fellowship, Legon Interdenominational Church, Ghana Fellowship of Evangelical Students. One of the truest tributes paid to eminent men and women is that which comes from their offspring. Rev. Anyani-Boadum is married to Rev. Mrs. Comfort Anyani-Boadum, and they are blessed with five adult children and 17 grandchildren. Like their parents, all his five children are actively involved in Christian ministry and have excelled in their various professional lives. They are Rev. Dr. Otumfuo Addo Anyani-Boadum, PhD; Rev. Dr. Dr. (med) Oheneba Anyani-Boadum, PhD; Pastor Dr. Nana Kwabena Anyani-Boadum, PhD; Pastor Kristodea Anyani Boadum Darkwa, MA-Ed, and Prophetess Nicky Akyena Anyani-Boadum, LLB. LL.M. Rev. Nana Anyani-Boadum holds a Doctor of Philosophy, a Doctor of Theology, and a Master of Theology from the Immanuel Bible Institute and Seminary, Brooklyn, New York, USA. He has a diploma in Christian Counselling from the International Theological Seminary, Florida, USA. He is a certified mediator and arbitrator and a member of the Ghana Association of Certified Mediators and Arbitrators. After three decades of walking with Rev. Anyani-Boadum, I can say that some of the things that bring him satisfaction are promoting peace and being a voice for the marginalized. As a member of the National Executive Council of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council, Reverend serves as the chairman of the membership issues committee and leads several conflict resolution issues. Across the country, he is known and recognized as one of the key Pentecostal leaders who is an HONEST BROKER, a PACIFIER, a PEACEMAKER, and a MEDIATOR to feuding churches and individual Christians. Conflicts within churches often come to his table through their leaders, mostly charismatic and prophetic churches, who see him as a father figure and a man of integrity. Rev. Anyani-Boadum is a pioneer in the ‘Deliverance’ ministry in Ghana. He started holding healing and deliverance sessions in the Legon Forest in the 1980s and, through God’s grace, brought relief to many families and homes. Known to be self-effacing, everybody who engages him comes away with a testimony that Anyani Boadum does not set out to make himself noticeable or try to get attention. He believes in miracles and the effectual working out of spiritual gifts among individual Christians; that “the manifestation of the Spirit is given to the Church to profit withal.” Notwithstanding, he prefers it being said of him that “Anyani-Boadum bears the fruit of the spirit.” Because of his profound teaching and inspiring exegesis of biblical text, most people refer to him as the “prince of preachers.” He has a personal ministry towards widows of deceased pastors who are not well taken care of due to the absence of any arrangement in their church’s by-laws to handle the family of the deceased pastor. Seeing how burgeoning ministries and Christian leaders struggled, often lacking appropriate mentorship, Anyani-Boadum makes time to organize leadership training called ‘Theological Education By Extension’ (TEE) for them in their own churches from time to time to foster growth and deepen their understanding of Christian ministry. His focus has been on biblical doctrine and character building, and aspects of post-modernism that pose a veiled threat to Christianity, using his book on Secular Humanism. Behind his soft and unassuming personality, Anyani-Boadum is God’s battle axe. In many instances, when the Body of Christ has come under attack in the public eye, he has stepped up to speak openly in defense of the Church. In the late 1980s, when the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) attempted to crack down on churches and other religious organisations through the imposition of a controversial law that required all religious bodies to register with the Ministry of the Interior so as to make them accountable to the government, Rev Anyani-Boadum toured parts of the nation with a message of encouragement to the pentecostal and charismatic fraternity not to panic or fold up. To help the younger Pentecostal and Charismatic churches who had little or no influence, no physical infrastructure, or financial backing, as well as churches that were meeting in homes, classrooms, and under trees, Rev Anyani-Boadum formed the Indigenous Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (IPCC) to engage government officials on behalf of these churches who were vulnerable to the demands of the PNDC law 221. He mobilized the growing Charismatic fraternity in the country to meet and engage the Religious Affairs Department of the PNDC to explain the difficulties these younger churches will have with the government’s directives. Without this effort, many small independent churches would have been wiped out by the government decree. Again, when various government agencies come up with directives from time to time threatening the expulsion of churches in government schools, Anyani Boadum takes it personally. To tackle the issue more sustainably, he mobilized these troubled churches to register the Association of Churches in Public Schools to give them a voice in negotiating with city and metropolitan authorities as well as the Heads of the government schools. In 2014, the influential ‘West Africa International’ magazine named him the FACE Of INTEGRITY. He was awarded a Noble Citizen of West Africa by the West Africa Nobles Fellowship. Rev. Nana Anyani-Boadum serves on the Board of Regent University College of Science and Technology. He is the convener of the Christian Leaders Forum, which seeks to improve organizational excellence in church governance through leadership seminars, lectures, publications, and roundtable discussions.
Program Schedule
(Itinerary of events planned for the celebration)
Introduction
Our father and General Overseer, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Nana Anyani-Boadum will by God’s grace turn 70 years on 6th June, 2024 and the following events have been planned to commemorate this great milestone and celebrate the grace of God upon His servant’s life. The line of events is intended to rally the members of Jesus Generation Ministries worldwide, colleague ministers, friends, well wishers and all whose life has been positively impacted by God’s servant Rt. Rev. Dr. Nana Anyani-Boadum and his ministry while offering us all to also honor him and bless him spiritually and materially.
Official Launch of Rev @ 70 – February
Special Monthly Prayers – March through May
All local churches will organize special prayer meetings for the life, ministry, family and legacy of our General Overseer, the celebrant.
Visit to Orphanage – June
The Celebrant together with his immediate family and select members of the church will visit an Orphanage in the Central region to share the day with the inmates of the Home and make some donations to them.
Mass evangelism – 2024
The local churches within the heart of the capital citiy of Accra will embark on targeted evangelism outreaches with the aim of extending the Gospel to unreached and unchurched communities in the city and establish a church plant.
June 6th – the Birthday Celebration
A two-hour service will be held at the Mercy Seat Cathedral, Accra to honor the servant of God. This service will also be livestreamed on the church’s social media platforms.
Well Wishes
Happy 70th Birthday, Reverend. Your guidance and teachings have profoundly impacted my spiritual journey. May your special day be filled with joy, blessings, and the knowledge that your work has touched countless lives, including mine. Here’s to many more years of inspiration and spiritual growth. God bless you abundantly!
Ethel
Wishing you a joyous 70th birthday, Daa Rev! Your wisdom and leadership have been a guiding light on my spiritual path. May this milestone be filled with love, peace, and continued blessings.
Elizabeth
Happy 70th Birthday, Reverend. Your dedication to spreading God’s word has been a source of inspiration for me. May your special day be as remarkable as the impact you’ve had on countless lives. Here’s to celebrating your legacy and the journey ahead!”
Charles Darkwa
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Gifts and Honorarium
The local churches of Jesus Generation have the opportunity to give an honorarium / personal gift to the Celebrant. People whose lives have been impacted and transformed by the ministry of Rt. Rev. Dr. Nana Anyani Boadum who live outside Ghana and would love to support, can also use the donation page on this website to give for this purpose.
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