Five years ago, over 70 young professionals and graduates gathered in a small room on the sprawling

campus of Cape Coast University to participate in what later became the ALIVE Bible Conference. The
three-day retreat featured two guest speakers, Pr. Juvenile Balisasa and Miss Thando Malambo, then
ALIVE Vice President from the States. We all resolved, at the end of the program, to ready ourselves to
meet the Lord, and train ourselves for missions in unreached areas.
So began a singular initiative in frontier missions in Ghana. ALIVE Ghana has since organized five
successive Evangelism campaigns in the North Ghana Missions, in the process winning over 400 souls
and distributing literature to over 10,000 people.
Like most Christian movements, ALIVE Ghana began as an idea. In many ways and on several campuses,
many were agreed that missionary zeal was lacking among graduates and the working class within
Adventism in Ghana. Students, fed on a steady diet of good Adventist messages whilst on campus,
would feel the promptings to serve the Lord through ministry. Like a flickering light, their faith will flame
briefly. Upon leaving campus to the larger world, however, their missionary zeal would get sucked up in
blackhole of work and family.

The problem, we discovered, had to be solved by organizing ourselves into a group, because we knew
we could support ourselves with the needed evangelistic tools if and when we were united. On the
campus of KNUST, two final year students took concrete steps to canvass for support and membership
among final year students. Adventist Graduates Organization (AGO) was the name for the newly formed
group. Seth Amankwah, its leader, and who later became President of ALIVE Ghana, wrote proposals to
friends abroad and connected with interested parties in Ghana.
Meanwhile, a few graduating students and lecturers from Cape Coast University and Valley View
University were nursing similar plans. In Secondi-Takoradi, for instance, a few passionate individuals had
presented a draft document to their Conference, the content explaining why and how an umbrella
organization of working professionals could help advance the mission of the Seventh-Day Adventist
Church.
A phone call from Pr. Dr. Yaw Ankomah, then Head of Department, and now confirmed professor of
Cape Coast University, brought together the various splinter groups. At a formal meeting in Cape Coast,
which he chaired, Dr Ankomah revealed how a similar group, Adventist Living in View of Eternity (ALIVE),
formed two years earlier in the United States, were willing to extend financial and logistical support.
A Bible Conference was scheduled in December, 2009. The choice of the theme, With One Accord,
revealed the depth of our desire to be a united front.