Isaac Minkah, the new minister at the First United Methodist Church of Tuckerton, was born and raised in Ghana, and that’s where he became a Methodist.
Methodism has been around in Ghana since 1835 when the Rev. Joseph Rhodes Dunwell visited what was then known as the Gold Coast. Currently the Methodist Church in Ghana has a membership of over 600,000, 17 dioceses, 3,814 societies, 1,066 pastors, 15,920 local preachers, 24,100 lay leaders, many schools, an orphanage, hospitals and clinics.
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