Sankofaonline News Desk | November 25,2025.
In the corridors of Korle Bu Nurses Training College decades ago, young Emelia Brainoo, now Mrs. Emelia Kwarkye-Saka ,trained with Comprehensive Group 26, learning the discipline of care that would carry her across continents. Years later, after a distinguished career as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom, she returned not with retirement’s silence but with a renewed mission, one that blends medicine with ministry, healing with hope.
On Saturday, November 22, 2025, the University College of Management Studies campus near West Hills Mall in Accra became the unlikely stage for a remarkable convergence. Reverend Mrs. Emelia Kwarkye-Saka, alongside her husband, orchestrated a church outreach that was part medical intervention, part spiritual revival, and wholly transformative. The day’s rhythm moved from blood pressure checks to gospel preaching, from screenings for diabetes and hepatitis to the showing of a film about Jesus Christ. It was not a conventional clinic nor a typical crusade, yet deeply whole.
Light City Church of New Jerusalem, her congregation, poured itself into the effort. Clothes for the aged, food for the hungry, shoes and dresses for the overlooked, drinks for the weary, all were distributed with the same reverence as the Word of God itself. The outreach was not charity alone; it was revelation. Many discovered hidden ailments, severe but silent hypertension, diabetes, and undiagnosed hepatitis that had gone unnoticed simply because routine checkups were absent from their lives. The screenings did not merely diagnose, they saved lives.
Among the volunteers was a fellow member of C26, Ms. Monica Afram , standing shoulder to shoulder with Emelia, bridging the past of nursing camaraderie with the present urgency of communal service.
Patients were urged to follow up at clinics and hospitals near them and to see their health not as an occasional gift but as a continuous personal responsibility.
Applause and prayers mingled in the air, as congratulations flowed to Reverend Mrs. Emelia Kwarkye-Saka and her husband. The blessing invoked was not perfunctory but profound: may the Lord God Almighty richly bless them and their congregation and volunteers .
What began as a nurse’s training in Ghana, stretched through years of service in the UK, and returned as a reverend’s outreach in Accra, has now become a story of legacy. It is a narrative that weaves together medicine, ministry, memory, and mission. It is the kind of news that does not merely inform but inspires.
Pictures : Credit Ms. Monica Afram .
Well done team.God bless you for this great impact.
To God be glory, great things he has done
Glory be to God Almighty!
Well done Rev Emelia and team!