My name is Kwasi Bonsu.
I was born in Ashanti New Town, Kumasi. K.O. Methodist School is where I had my formal education, but fortunately or unfortunately, I couldn’t continue after I graduated. I was interested in working at a very young age so I could make a name for myself. From an early age, I found myself to be someone who enjoyed supporting others. My father was a king, and he married three wives. My mother, being the second wife, gave birth to 13 children, but sadly, some passed away. As I speak now, my mother has 5 living children, myself included. My parents were members of the Roman Catholic Church, into which I was baptized.
As early as the age of 10, I was mature and desired to live independently, as I was a hard worker. Later, I was even able to take care of myself. I moved from my parents’ home to stay in Ashtown Sumankwaahene, at a cinema house called Super Service Cinema where I watched over the establishment.
As I was coming of age, I realized I desired to be a Christian after a brother called Harry, who went to the Christian Outreach Ministries (a church that had recently started at State Boys School), spoke to us about God. This stirred my desire to be a Christian. So in 1993, I decided to go with him to church. As a result, I separated myself from womanizing and many other things I used to do as an Ashtown boy because I wanted to truly worship God.
After joining the church, I noticed that the needy in church were always serious during prayer times and were much more committed to prayer meetings and all-night services, praying for God to intercede in their situations. This didn’t sit well with me. As I grew, I continued to help others in need in churches, even to the extent of giving all I had, not minding if I went home hungry.
After I started working as a cinematographer, working on gigs like funerals, weddings, and movies, I became a little well-off. As time went on, I decided that something had to be done to support those in need in the church. In early 2014, I decided to speak to a friend, Naase, an editor at Hello FM, and suggested that we come together to make Christian films and use the profits to help women who could not work or had no jobs, and anyone in real need of financial assistance. The plan was that any church that could help us premiere or aid us in sales would see that support go to their needy.
So I made my way to Hello FM. While waiting in the reception to speak with Naase, I was watching football. A man(Governor Akwasi Agyeman) approached me and asked whether I was interested in football. I replied that I didn’t specifically have an interest but would watch if given the opportunity. He tried to draw my attention to the fact that it’s a demonic activity, yet we Ghanaians go about praying for victory whenever there’s a tournament.
We continued our conversation, and I asked him what he was doing there. He said he had been given a Kingdom by God, and that Kingdom was Ghana, the New Jerusalem Kingdom. I was amazed by this news and told him it was the first time I had heard such a thing. He explained that Ghana stands in the middle of the earth (situated in the center of the world on an Equator and prime Meridian of the planet), and I could search it on the internet. I told him there was no need to debate; I believed him.
He mentioned that he had gone to Hello FM to preach about a month ago, and they’d been avoiding him ever since. I told him Hello FM was a station that mostly focused on politics, so it would be the wrong place to preach. I suggested it would be better to go to Spirit FM since it was a gospel station that had recently opened, and I knew the men who hosted the morning show.
He was given a slot at Spirit FM for about a week. The discussions on the show used to get heated due to the message he carried. A few days later, we went back for another show, only to be told we couldn’t be hosted that day. We tried to find out why, but to no avail. We later learned that someone had paid money, telling the Spirit FM presenters not to host us because we were “polluting the church.”
I questioned the presenters, asking if what we talked about wasn’t from the Bible or if we had come to talk about a different kingdom. With every comment he made, there was a reference from the Bible, so it didn’t sit well with me. I wondered who was lying: our churches or Governor Akwasi Agyeman. If someone could make references from the Bible, I found no reason why the church couldn’t listen to his message. So I asked myself, are our pastors called by God or are they called by themselves?
I decided to follow this man very closely and made it a point to meet with him every Saturday to discuss any questions I had concerning life and my desire to help the Christian community. I would note down everything he said, and I realized that for every matter we discussed, he would give me a reference from the Bible. I asked why such a great message wasn’t being received by the Christian community, when it could have been of greater benefit than preaching to the sinners we speak of. He said that this was how it had been in the past, just like Elijah, Moses, and many others who faced contention when called by God, but in it all, God allowed it so that He might show His power.
Then I came to understand that my initial thought of wanting to amass money to support the needy in the church was not my place. It was me using my own desires to chase after a calling God had given to the pastors of His church: to gather the treasury from His children and place it in the storehouse, a central bank. This realization made me enjoy walking with him even more.
I came to understand that we had been going to church for men and not God, as we had grown up thinking. For which father would want his children to go hungry and not provide for them? God has given rules to his shepherds to tend and take care of his flock, so why must the shepherd eat the flock, and then we go back and pray to God again to feed the flock? The church has done a great disservice, even to the point of allowing politicians to enter the church, pay the youth, and lead them to do abominable things in the name of money.
If politicians can do this, then why can’t the church support the youth or others with something to start a business to take care of their families? The church should take care of the pastor and their family, and the rest should go to God in prayer. I had no understanding of such matters until the Governor took his time to teach these things, that God does not call a multitude of people but rather He calls one man and then people to support that man.
Then I understood there was a difference between the Kingdom and the Church. The kingdom which the Lord speaks of in Matthew 6:5 was not imaginary, where we would be caught up in the clouds or where we would see the sky fold like a blanket, but rather a physical Kingdom. I realized that pastors had been preaching a problematic message for hundreds of years. This completely separates the Kingdom from the church.
When God made David King, the Bible says his cup was full and running over so that others could eat from it. How much more should this apply to our pastors of today? I speak from experience. I have worked with many pastors in the city of Kumasi, and if you see the amount of food going to waste in their homes while the children of God go hungry, it’s a shame. This is where I got the idea of wanting to work and support the Christian community with my money. This made me understand that there is a great difference between the church and the Kingdom. I then became interested in following this kingdom.
Interestingly, my father named me after a friend called Mathias who was visiting him from Germany. My father was a King and as such had great relations with the uncle of Otumfuo Osei Tutu the Second, and also named me after him as Nana Kwasi Bonsu. This means my name was derived from two people: a King and a German. Growing up, I disposed of the name Mathias because I preferred my Akan name, but I now know that Mathias, my saint name, was the one who later joined the disciples to make a full twelve when Judas left the Kingdom. So I was not unfortunate because even before I knew it, I was a part of the Kingdom.
So whoever hears about the New Jerusalem Kingdom, don’t turn a deaf ear because this is where God will choose His children as said in Zechariah 13:9. The Lord has divided the world in three, His is one-third, and it is also said in John 10:16 that Christ said He’ll take people from the world and the church and give them one shepherd. That shepherd is King David the Second, as spoken of in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, who would gather the children of God from every corner of the earth to the center of the earth.