The Story of the Peki Methodist Church

The Peki Methodist Church was the first of its kind in the Volta Region of Ghana. This is its story:

Mr. Samuel Beatson-Affram, the Chief Linguist for the town of Peki in the late 1800s, was gifted to know at least 16 Ghanaian languages and accompanied the town’s Chief on his travels throughout the country. On one of those trips, Mr. Beatson-Affram attended a Methodist Society meeting where he experienced a conversion to Christianity and asked to be baptized. He asked the Methodists to come to his home of Peki to establish a Methodist Society there.

With the help of other members of the Peki community, they founded the first Methodist Society in the entire Volta Region (the easternmost region of the country). Mr. Beatson-Affram donated land to build the Methodist Society and Methodist school in 1893, providing from his own resources to pay the teachers.

He also sent his first son, Isaac Affram, to be trained and ordained as a Methodist minister. Rev. Isaac Affram became the first Secretary of the Methodist Church Conference in what was then called Gold Coast.

Mr. Beatson-Affram’s second son, Emanuel Affram, was one of the pillars of the church and also a lifelong member of the choir.

The Peki Methodist Society spread the faith throughout the area, planting at least 14 other churches in the Volta Region.