Women’s Fellowship

The wives of the missionaries brought a change in the lives of Ghanaian wives and in their homes. They gathered the wives of the converts and started teaching them handicrafts knitting and memory verses from the Bible. They also taught them how to pray. However, the training was not nationwide but centred around where the missionaries resided.

In 1930, some girls were trained to become teacher’s wives and also leaders for the Women’s classes. When many locals accepted the women’s class idea, they named the class after the leaders. In 1937, Awura Moir, Esther Sutherland and Beveridge from Scotland who were stationed at Aburi went to Krobo Odumase and saw that the girls in the area lacked formal education. They decided then to establish the Krobo Girls school to train the girls in order to help the women in the church especially the illiterates.

In 1942, the RT. Rev. S.S. Odonkor returned from overseas tour and at a meeting with the church authorities, he explained to the members at the meeting how women were involved in the church work over there. This opened the way for women. In 1942, the church agreed to bring all the local women classes under one umbrella. Thus, the formation of the Women’s Work Central Committee (WWCC) in 1943.