35,738 Reached, 116 Churches Planted: A Record May for Evangelism and Church Planting in Ghana
MOVE 2026 and Missionary Church Planters combined field report · May 2026
Evangelism and church planting in Ghana reached one of their strongest months on record in May 2026. Across GlobeServe’s two main field programmes, MOVE 2026 and the Missionary Church Planters, the month brought 35,738 people reached with the Gospel, 14,578 salvations, 219 Jesus Film screenings, and 116 new churches planted. Behind every one of those figures is a person, a household, a village square where the name of Jesus was spoken for the first time.
35,738 reached 14,578 salvations 219 Jesus Film screenings 116 churches planted
Numbers can numb us if we let them. So as you read this report, hold the figures loosely and the people tightly. Each salvation is a story. Each new church is a community where worship now rises that was silent a month ago. Here is what God did in May through both programmes, and the story the numbers are telling.
“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Matthew 9:37–38
MOVE 2026: Reaching 91 Communities
MOVE 2026 is GlobeServe’s broad evangelism and church-planting push, and in May its teams carried the Gospel into 91 communities. They reached 23,369 people, recorded 10,436 salvations, and made 357 new disciples. Church planting continued at pace, with 339 house churches and 89 official churches established in a single month.
91 communities 23,369 reached 10,436 salvations 89 official churches
A large share of that fruit came through the Jesus Film. MOVE teams held 163 screenings during the month, and 10,540 people made decisions for Christ through the film alone. For communities where many cannot read, and where a printed tract may not connect, the film tells the life of Christ in a people’s own heart language, on a screen set up under the open sky. People gather, they watch, and many meet Jesus for the first time in a way they will never forget. It remains one of the most effective evangelism tools GlobeServe has.
Missionary Church Planters: Steady Growth Across the North
The Missionary Church Planters, or MCP, focus on patient, sustained church planting across Northern Ghana. In May they reached 56 communities and 12,369 people, welcoming 4,142 new converts into the faith. The month brought 65 baptisms, 202 new disciples, 149 house churches, and 27 official churches, with Jesus Film outreach drawing 3,669 commitments to follow Christ.
56 communities 12,369 reached 4,142 converts 27 official churches
What stands out about MCP is consistency. Month after month, across the year, the programme has reached new communities and welcomed thousands into the faith. This is not the fruit of a single dramatic campaign. It is the result of missionaries who live among the people they serve, build trust slowly, and plant churches that are meant to last. The 202 disciples made in May are not just converts. They are believers being formed into the kind of mature Christians who will lead the next wave of churches.
What the Numbers Actually Mean
It is worth slowing down to explain what these figures represent on the ground, because church-planting statistics can sound more abstract than the reality. A church plant rarely begins with a building. It begins with a relationship. A missionary or trained local believer enters a community, often one with little or no Christian presence, and begins to build trust, sharing the Gospel through conversation, through the Jesus Film, and through acts of service.
When people respond, they are gathered into a small group, usually meeting in a home. This is the house church stage, where new believers learn to pray, hear the Scriptures, and support one another. As a house church matures and raises up its own leaders, many become official churches with their own identity. The 339 house churches and 89 official churches planted through MOVE, alongside MCP’s 149 house churches and 27 official churches, represent that whole pipeline in motion at once: new seeds going into the ground, and earlier plantings coming to maturity. This is why the work lasts. It is not built on a handful of missionaries doing everything. It is built on local believers becoming the church themselves.
“Hold the figures loosely and the people tightly. Each new church is a community where worship now rises that was silent a month ago.”
The Eight-Month Picture
May’s results feed into a larger story stretching back to October 2025. Across that eight-month window, GlobeServe’s combined field programmes have now reached 185,523 people, recorded 58,885 salvations and new converts, held 727 Jesus Film screenings, and planted 523 churches.
These totals are worth pausing on. More than 185,000 people reached. Nearly 59,000 decisions for Christ. Over 500 new churches. This is not the work of one heroic effort. It is the steady accumulation of faithful days, missionaries who keep walking into new communities, screenings set up night after night, disciples patiently formed, and churches planted and tended. The monthly figures have trended upward through the year, with May posting some of the strongest results yet. The harvest is real, it is steady, and it is far from finished.
Why the Workers Still Need You
The verse our missionaries return to again and again is the one above: the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. May proved the harvest is plentiful. The challenge now, as always, is workers, and the resources to sustain them.
Every figure in this report represents real people in real places, reached because someone prayed and someone gave. Your partnership funds the missionaries who go, the films that are screened, and the discipleship that turns a convert into a leader. When you stand with GlobeServe, you become part of the harvest itself.
- Pray for the thousands of new believers, that they would grow deep roots in Christ.
- Pray for the new churches planted in May, that they would raise faithful leaders.
- Pray for more workers and resources to reach the communities still waiting.