“Cape Coast, Ghana,” Liahona, February 2022
The Church Is Here
Cape Coast, Ghana
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a port in Ghana
Photographs by Christina Smith
This port on the Gulf of Guinea is always packed with fishing boats. It is also home to a stake of Zion. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been in Ghana since 1978. Today, the Church in this country has:
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89,150 members (approximately)
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25 stakes, 4 missions, 328 congregations, 53 family history centers
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1 temple in Accra, 1 announced for Kumasi
Helping Each Other
In Ghana’s capital city, Accra, Justina Efua Allotey and her daughter Lucinda hang laundry to dry. As participants in a Church-sponsored literacy program, they also help each other learn to read and write.
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mother and daughter hanging up laundry