Cadman Sekyi-Appiah [Cadman.Sekyi-Appiah@scfs.org]
I was born to a Christian home. As a youth I attended Church but like most young men I was drawn by the fun this world had to offer. My life without Christ gave the enemy chance to destroy me. I took to drinking and womanizing. This is the habit I have acquired since I became a seaman. I got married in 1975 to a lovely lady called Mildred. In 1983 she committed her life to Jesus to save our marriage. She started praying for me and in 1987 I yielded to Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour at FGBMFI Breakfast meeting in Tema, Ghana.
Through visions and dreams, I have become convinced that the Lord is calling me to preach His Word. In one of the dreams, I was on board a ship in 1991 and happened to descend the gangway, which had been lowered while the vessel was anchored in the mid-stream with my Bible in my armpit, I descended to the last step of the ladder, as I stood still looking on the surface of the rather calm sea. My Bible dropped from my armpit into the sea. I exclaimed "Lord I have lost my Bible." Within a flash of a second I saw the Bible swimming like a fish towards me, as I pick up the Bible it was dry and fresh; and I heard the Lord say "Go" (Mark 16:15)
The office of Seamen's Christian Friend Society-Ghana is ideally located in the Center of the Port City of Tema called Community One and it is about five minutes drive to Tema Port. We hope to move to our new offices at Tema Seafarers Center by April 2005, which is closer to the Port. Tema, being a Port City is noted for high concentration of female sex workers. Our Port Chaplain often times is branded as a 'bad person' for not encouraging the seamen to indulged in such 'business'.
In Ghana the Churches have no idea about supporting Missionary Work. Therefore we constrained financially to do the work. We therefore ask our readers for prayer for open door for effective evangelism among the seafarers as they call Ghana Ports and also for the churches and organization to support us financially as we reach out to seafarers.