Sampson Dorkunor, Trainer, Outreach Coordinator, Church Planter, Ghana | Lausanne World Pulse Archives

Q. Tell us about your family.
A. I am married to Janet Dorkunor, a child evangelist who has been very supportive in the ministry. We have three young ladies who live with us (though not legally adopted)—Anna, 24, Patience, 24, and Emefa (Debora), 12. We have several spiritual children and have been supporting many through their education.

Q. Give us a brief overview of your work and ministry.
A. I am the founder and general overseer of Living Bread Missions, an indigenous missionary agency committed to training, outreach, and church planting. We have a staff of sixteen serving in Ghana and the Republic of Togo in various church-planting projects. We run a missionary training school to raise and release workers.

We have been actively involved in community development projects, one of which is a Christ-centered and character-building educational complex known as Precious Kids Academy. This is located in our base location of Ashaiman, a slum community in Ghana. We are also involved in a 20-acre farm project to help raise support for the work we do in missions.

I have also been involved in the national mission movement and was the immediate past president of the Ghana Evangelical Missions Association. I was the World Evangelical Alliance’s national representative and associate who did the REMAP II research into missionary retention in 2003.

In collaboration with Student Volunteer Movement 2 (SVM2) and Ghana Fellowship of Evangelical Student (the national wing of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students), I have been involved in student mission mobilization. We have successfully initiated and worked on awareness conferences in Ghana and held ignite conferences in universities across the country. I am currently the national chair for the SVM2 advisory committee and newly appointed as the African regional facilitator.

I also provide supervision for the missionary endeavors of the Association of Community Missionaries based in unreached people groups of northern Ghana and northern Togo. My work covers field visits and administrative support for the 22 missionaries who are working with over 130 churches. This work is done in collaboration with Reaching the Unreached based in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.

Q. What is your favorite quote?
A. John 10:16: “I have other sheep which are not of this fold. I must bring them also. That there may be one sheepfold with one shepherd.”

Q. Who has been the most influential person in your life/ministry, and why?
A. Margaret Anthony, who confronted me with the gospel of Jesus Christ and discipled me. I learned at her feet in my juvenile years to be a faithful Christian of integrity. She also counseled me up to the point when I was called into active ministry.

Q. What is the best piece of advice you’ve received?
A. The best piece of advice I received was an encouragement to accept the call to ministry and not look to others’ criticisms and accusations. I was told not to fear even what the future would hold, even though I was leaving my professional field to enter ministry.

Evangelism. On Point. Q. Describe a time in which you shared your faith in Christ with someone who didn’t know him, and then saw God clearly work in that situation. A. I have this tremendous story of an elderly man who was the captain of an idol worship cult. He refuted the gospel any time I introduced Jesus Christ as Savior and the need for this man to admit, confess, and accept Jesus as such. He would protest, saying that the devil was the elder brother of Jesus and that idol worship was the ideal for the African.