Vision
GEMA exists to provide a nationwide platform that enables the Ghanaian church to carry out her missionary work, accelerate her pioneering efforts and increase the fruitfulness of current missionary thrust in and out of Ghana.
Mission
The Ghana Evangelical Missions Association (GEMA) is the national body that brings together all mission-related organizations in Ghana, both indigenous and foreign based to build a strategic network to fulfill the Great Commission
OUR OBJECTIVES
The objectives as outlined in the GEMA constitution are as follows:
UNITY
To unite mission-related organizations in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
PRAY
To pray for the enabling power of the Holy Spirit to carry out the Great Commission in our time.
cooperation
To promote cooperation among missions and mission-related bodies in Ghana.
STRATEGIES
To eliminate wasteful duplication of effort and to pool resources.
SHARING
To create a forum for sharing strategies and techniques.
NETWORK
To establish a strong and reliable association that adequately represents Ghanaian missions on the national and international fronts.
integrity and accountability
To set and maintain improved standards of integrity and accountability to increase confidence in Ghanaian missionary activities.
disseminating information
To provide the machinery for compiling, collating, and disseminating information.
productive partnership
To cultivate a productive partnership between the Church and the missions.
COLLABORATE
To associate and affiliate with the appropriate regional and global bodies.
Beliefs and Values
We subscribe to the historical evangelical faith as it expressed in the Manila Manifesto as follows:
1. We affirm our continuing commitment to the Lausanne Covenant as the basis of our co-operation in the Lausanne Movement.
2. We affirm that in the scriptures of the Old and New Testament God has given as an authoritative discloser of his character and will his redemptive acts and their meaning and his mandate for mission.
3. We affirm that biblical gospel is God’s enduring message to our world, and we determine to deafened, proclaim embody it.
4. We affirm that human beings, though created in the image of God sinful and guilty and lost without Christ and that his truth a necessary preliminary to the gospel.
5. We affirm that the Jesus of history and the Christ of glory are the same person and that this Jesus Christ is absolutely unique for he alone is God incarnate our sin bearer the conqueror of death and the coming judge.
6. We affirm that on the cross Jesus Christ has taken our place, bore our sins and died our death and that for this reason alone God freely forgives those who are brought to repentance and faith.
7. We affirm that other religion and ideologies are not alternative paths to God and that human spirituality if unredeemed by Christ leads not to God by to judgment, for Christ is the only way.
8. We affirm that we must demonstrate God’s love visibly by caring for those who are deprived of justices, dignity, food and shelter.
9. We affirm that the proclamation of God’s kingdom is justice and peace demands the denunciation and of all injustice and oppression both personal and structural. We will not shrink from his prophetic witness.
10. We affirm that the Holy Spirit’s witness to Christ is indispensable to evangelism and that with out his supernatural work neither new birth nor new life is possible.
11. We affirm that spiritual warfare demands spiritual weapons and that we must both preach the world in the power of the spirit and pray constantly that we may enter into Christ’s victory over the principalities and power of evil.
12. We affirm that God has committed to the whole church and every member of it the task of making Christ’s known throughout the world. We long to see lay and ordained persons mobilized and trained for this task.
13. We affirm that we who claim to be member of the Body of Christ must transcend within our fellowship the barriers of race gender and class.
14. We affirm that the gifts of the spirit are distributed to all God’s people woman or man and that their partnership in evangelism must be welcomed for the common good.
15. We affirm that we who claims the gospel must exemplify it in a life of holiness and love otherwise our testimony loses credibility.
16. We affirm that every Christian congregation must turn itself outward to its local community in evangelistic witness and compassionate service.
17. We affirm the urgent need for churches mission agencies and other Christian organizations to co-operate in evangelism and social action repudiating competition and avoiding duplication.
18. We affirm our duty to study the society/agency in which we live in order to understand it structures, values and need and so develop an appropriate strategy in mission.
19. We affirm that world evangelization is urgent and that the reaching of unreached people is possible. So, we resolve during the last decade of the twentieth century to give ourselves to those tasks with fresh determination.
20. We affirm our solidarity with those who suffer for the gospel and seek to prepare ourselves for the same possibility. We will also work for religions and political freedom everywhere.
21. We affirm that God is calling the whole church to take the whole gospel to the whole world. So, we determine to proclaim it faithfully, urgently and sacrificially until He comes.
OUR VALUE
- Unity
- Cooperation
- Integrity
DEPARTMENT
- Research
- Mobilization & Training
- Communication and Media
- Prayer
- Diaspora Relations
- Advocacy & Partnership
- Member Care
- Market Place Ministry
- Children in Mission
- Women in Mission
- Young Leaders
