SWCF UCC

Cape Coast Campus fellowship started in November 1987. This was the idea of bro Amos Magnus Tabil and Sam Gyepi-Garbrah who thoughts about tracking to Cape coast town for fellowship and returning in the night especially for Bro Amos who had to track to Casley Hayford hall on foot sometimes from old site or through the farms being the Cape Coast technical institute.

The idea was a tricky one since we had a few versions of Message believers on campus. We tried the collective efforts of all. This involved the following Brothers as well:

• Bro Emmanuel Garsu (From BBF from Tema- Bro Tay’s church)
• Bro Morgan (last name escapes me but this brother taught at Ghanan national after gradation)

Everyone was accommodating that we needed a common front and by the end of November we were having weekly meetings on Wednesdays in one of the classrooms in the faculty of Education behind the former dining Hall of UCC. Bros. Amos, Garsu and Morgan took turns we had no outright leader at this moment.

After a few meetings with invited students, we decided we needed a name of which the following was on the table was Bible Believers Fellowship. I remember opposing this name for te fact that if we were to come to terms with the origin of this message Spoken Word campus fellowship was the best name. After a few deliberations we had both names on a vote one of our weekly meetings.

• Bible Believers Campus Fellowship
• Spoken Word Campus Fellowship

It was gratifying to note that even though we had more brethren aligned with Bible Believers background the name voted was "Spoken Word Campus Ministry".

Our plans was to get formalized by the University whilst we also explored leadership. But our expectations were short-lived. It was evident that Bros Garsu and Morgan didn’t take lightly to the name adoption and started to drag their feet about commitment. Fellowship numbers dwindled with Bro. Amos doing the bulk of exhortations. We therefore moved the meetings from Wednesdays to Thursdays so those of us who still wanted to go to town on Wednesday could have an option.

At some point it was evident that the Union was not going to work. My memory is fuzzy here but by the time we graduated we had quite a few believers rolling in Including Sisters Faustie and Hannah. Bros. Derick, Ebenezer Abuaku, Maison, George Bosompem and Kantaka. Among others.

They rejuvenated this group with routine weekly meetings at the UCC Botanical gardens of which I attended a few meetings.