Evangelisation is defined by the Catholic Church as a mission to carry out and continue the work of Jesus Christ on Earth.
The Church, and those in it, particularly the ordained, share the Word of God as well as carry out works of charity. In achieving this goal, ordained priests across Ghana, choose a medium to reach out to many.
While some use social media, others like Rev. Fr. Jude Abieku Mensah prefers to employ what has become known as the fisherman approach reaching out to persons cut off from the rest of the world mostly because of their geographical location.
Fr. Abeiku Mensah, stationed at the St. John the Baptist Parish, Assin Bereku in the Cape Coast Archdiocese on the May 31, ( Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary) in one of his missions dubbed “Trekking diaries” took his evangelisation mission to a Cocoa Farm at Abodamfomu in the Central Region of Ghana.
The trek saw an over 80 year old woman recieving the sacrament of Babtism.
“Dear diary, today being the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth, we also visited the cottages in the cocoa farms at Abodamfomu, ” Fr. Abieku Mensah wrote on Facebook sighted by Newswatchgh.com.
He further narrated that ” There was this woman who I discovered that she had not been baptised in her youthful days in the church because of marital issues through my frequent visits. I encouraged her and prepared her for baptism today. She is over 85years old and uses a walking stick and could not be transported to church so had to be baptised in the cocoa farm.”
“We arranged for her Baptism today and her family were there with some church members. We added a young couple preparing for mass wedding and it was beautiful.”
