About Us
Good News to the nations is a non-denominational Christian ministry involved with evangelism, and counselling with the hope of spreading the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, by ministering to the emotional needs of believers and non-believers in today's troubled times.
History
The Good News Lovelines Crisis Centre was founded on April 2, 2002 after the Director of Good News to the Nations, Ms. Elizabeth Fosu, met the Director of the Love Lines Crisis Center of St Paul's, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Prior to this meeting, which occured during the Amsterdam 2000 conference, Good News to the Nations only did Street Outreach counselling.
Ms. Fosu, a former banker and building contractor accepted the call of the Lord to go into ministry and attented the Amsterdam 2000 Conference where her confidence to do God's work was strengthened. After the contact with Lovelines, Miss Fosu, received training manuals on how to setup and operate a phone-in counselling centre.
After an extensive search for an office space to house the counselling centre, an office lot was secured at the Tema Exhibitions and Industrial Fair Centre, Texpo, Spintex Road, Tema. An appeal was launched to raise funds to rent and furnish the office throughout 2001.
In June 2005, due to a complete overhaul of the Tema Exhibitions and Industrial Fair Centre at Texpo, the Centre had to be moved temporarily to the residence of the Director at Teshie-Nungua Estates.
Mission Goals
Aims and Objectives
The Ministry sets out to achieve the following objectives in a bid to bring souls to Jesus Christ’s Kingdom.
Proclamation Evangelism
Proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ through Crusades and Film-Shows. [Acts 1:8 But you eill receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.; Luke 4:18-19 18The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He has anounted Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; 19to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.]
Soul-Winning Evangelism
Bringing lost souls to a point of making the decision to be saved through one-on-one evangelism and tract distribution. [Mark 16:15-16 15And he said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16He who believes and is baptised will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned ]
Healing and Deliverance
Praying for the healing of the sick and infirmed. Praying for the deliverance of the spiritually captive. [Matt 21:14 Then the blind and lame came to Him in the temple, and he healed them.; Mark 16:15-16 15And he said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16He who believes and is baptised will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned ]
Disciple-Making and Church-Planting
Teaching new converts of the New Life in Christ [Matt. 28:19-2019 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.]
Training the Labourers
Training Evangelists to reach out to lost souls in their communities.
Training Christian counselors to serve in their various churches, workplaces and neighbourhoods in various problem areas. [
Matt. 9:9:37-38 37Then He said to his disciples, "The harvest truly,
is plentiful, but the labourers are few. 38Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out
labourers into His harvest; II Tim. 2:2 And the things that you have heard
from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.]
Social Health Improvement Services
Offering free Christian counsel in over 20 problem areas including:
- marriage and family life
- parental and spousal abuse
- divorce
- cults and occults and
- Christian Kingdom principles
We believe this is one way to help develop our communities [Deut. 15:11 For the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, "You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land; Proverbs 11:14Where there is no counsel, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety ; Rom. 15:25-27 25But now, I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints. 26For it pleased those from Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem. 27It pleased them indeed, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in material things ; I John 3:16-18 16 By this we know love because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoever has this world;s goods and sees his brother in meed, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? 18My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth 19And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heats before Him.].
Future Plans
- Establishing a School of Evangelism to build and train evangelists as well as ordinary people wishing to learn about the calling of evangelism
- Prayer Tower where people who want a quiet and still place to wait upon the Lord can come and stay as long as they need to hear from the Lord.
- Gospel Literature Library attached to the Prayer Tower with vital nutrients for anyone who is in waiting to feed on.
- Broadcasting Ministry. We are still looking forward to launching a shortwave radio broadcast station to transmit the word of God to the inaccessible places where people live without knowledge of the Love of God.
- Rehabilitation Centre for Ex-Convicts. We hope to be able to give ex-convicts a second chance by teaching those willing to learn an honest trade and keep them aware of the Love of God so that they would not fall into the lifestyles that led to their incarceration.