For authenticity and greater exploits
John 14:12 · Jude 1:3 · Hebrews 11
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Full nameThe rising bell is at 4:30 in the morning — sleep early. Your counsellor is the person you go to for everything. The dormitories of the opposite sex are out of bounds, with no exceptions.
If you are unwell, see your counsellor first, at any hour. Do not treat yourself and do not wait until morning.
Four things you will reach for most: the daily schedule, the rules, the Counsellors' Hour devotions, and the prayer chain.
A message from Rev. Henry Kyei-Mensah, National Youth Director
Christ for All! All for Christ. The Youth Alive! The Work is Done. Mmogyamono! Y3adwuma Ma Awurade.
It is a great joy to join you for the 2026 edition of our annual Camp Meeting. All the glory to God for the manifestation of His power in every sphere of our lives. I celebrate with you and thank God for the tangible blessings you have recorded this past year. The successes you have chalked are worth recognising in this season, and we give God praise for them.
As a ministry we have witnessed real progress in the past year. We have begun our Legacy Temple and are making significant headway. A Youth Policy document is being developed which, when completed, will give the Ministry a standard blueprint at every level. The 2026 Youth Week celebration was held across all our local churches. And churches were planted in several regions — I commend the Directors, Reps and local leaders responsible for that work.
The Youth Alive! Our theme for the year, The Faith of Our Fathers for Authenticity and Greater Exploits (John 14:12, Jude 1:3, Hebrews 11), is timely. Our world changes fast, and with it comes the temptation to quietly set aside the foundational beliefs that anchor us. Reaffirming our Pentecostal convictions is not negotiable. We are instructed to take up deliberately the convictions and the trust our fathers placed in God. Until we embrace their faith, we cannot expect their feats. I believe that by the end of this camp a new conviction in God and in His power will be formed in your spirit, and that it will position you for greater exploits.
Christ Ambassadors, camp seasons are designed for exceptional time with the Lord and for fellowship that equips you. Over the years we have recorded testimonies of new birth, Holy Spirit baptism, calls into ministry, marital breakthrough, healing, deliverance and open doors. I trust this year's edition will be somebody's moment for a miracle. As you gather, make the most of it — build relationships that will carry you higher.
Cooperate with leadership. Be disciplined. Pursue a godly purpose, so that we leave here refined, revived and released as agents of transformation. It is my prayer that you leave camp 2026 filled with faith for incredible impact, and that God grants you the desires of your heart.
God bless you for coming.
Long live AG Youth Ministry. Long live AG, Ghana. Long live Ghana.
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The same shape every day. Be at each activity before it starts — arriving late means someone waits for you.
| 4:30 am | Rising bell |
| 5:00 – 5:30 am | Morning devotion |
| 5:40 – 6:40 am | Bath and clean up |
| 6:45 – 7:45 am | Counsellor's Hour |
| 8:00 – 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am – 12:00 noon | Morning service |
| 12:15 – 1:15 pm | Classes |
| 1:20 – 2:45 pm | Lunch and rest |
| 3:00 – 4:30 pm | Sports |
| 4:45 – 5:15 pm | Supper |
| 5:20 – 5:50 pm | Bath |
| 5:55 – 6:55 pm | Vesper hour |
| 7:00 – 9:30 pm | Evening session |
| 9:45 pm | Return to dormitories, lights out |
This is the heart of the camp, not a filler between breakfast and service. Go straight to your counsellor's meeting point with your Bible, this handbook and a pen.
Rules exist so the camp runs smoothly for everyone. Keep them yourself, and help others to keep them. Let us make this the best C.A. camp yet.
So you know what is coming next, morning and evening.
Classes run daily from 12:15 to 1:15 pm. Choose with your counsellor.
My class
Four morning studies, Tuesday to Friday, on the theme: the faith of our fathers influencing the future of our faith.
Hebrews 13:7 · John 14:12 · Jude 1:3
This guide is placed in your hands with confidence that God will use this hour — quiet, deliberate, dorm-based — to do something enduring in the young people under your care.
The Counsellors' Hour is not a secondary activity. It is, in many ways, the heartbeat of the camp. The main sessions stir the crowd; it is here, in the intimacy of the dormitory, with voices still unhurried by the noise of the day, that the Word of God finds its deepest lodging. You are not merely a facilitator. You are a spiritual father or mother standing in front of young people who need to see what living faith looks like in real human flesh.
The four sessions are built on one theme drawn from three texts. Together, Hebrews 13:7, John 14:12 and Jude 1:3 describe a faith that is inherited, amplified and defended across generations. Our fathers in the faith have run their race with distinction. The question this camp puts to every young man and woman gathered here is this: what will you do with what they have left you?
Tuesday — look back, and receive the inheritance.
Wednesday — look up, and receive the promise.
Thursday — look around, and guard what you were given.
Friday — look forward, and carry it on.
Prepared for the Assemblies of God, Ghana Youth Department, Annual Youth Camp — Counsellors' Hour. Rev. Samuel Kweku Nyarko, Minister, Assemblies of God, Ghana.
The young often believe they are the first generation to wrestle seriously with faith, with doubt, with the demands of following Jesus in a complicated world. Social media, peer pressure, shifting values, the lure of prosperity over holiness — these feel like uniquely modern burdens. But every generation of believers has stood at the same crossroads, and every generation that came through with its faith intact did so by learning to look back before it dared to leap forward.
The writer of Hebrews, in a single verse of remarkable density, gives the community of faith a three-part command that amounts to a theology of generational discipleship: remember your leaders; consider the outcome of their way of life; imitate their faith.
These are not three separate instructions. They are three movements in one spiritual discipline — the discipline of holy remembrance. This morning begins with a question that is both personal and corporate: who are the men and women of faith who shaped the ground you now stand on, and what do you owe them?
Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. Hebrews 13:7 (NIV)
The Greek word translated 'remember' is mnemoneúete — a present imperative carrying the force of continuous, deliberate action. The writer is not asking for a passing nostalgic thought about past leaders. He is commanding active, ongoing, intentional recollection. To remember, in the biblical sense, is never passive. It is a posture of the soul that must be consciously cultivated, especially by the young, whose attention is constantly contested by the present and the immediate.
The leaders in view were, in all probability, the founding figures of the Hebrew Christian community — the early witnesses who first received, believed and transmitted the Gospel. Many had likely already died, some as martyrs. Their suffering and faithfulness were not to be forgotten. They were spiritual capital deposited in the community's account for future generations to draw on.
The second movement, 'consider the outcome of their way of life', invites careful scrutiny of how these leaders lived and how their lives ended. The Greek for 'consider' is anatheoreo: to look again and again, to study closely, to contemplate. You are invited not merely to know that your spiritual fathers were faithful, but to study the shape of that faithfulness — what it cost them, what it produced in them, where it led them.
The third movement is the most demanding: imitate their faith. Not their personalities. Not their cultural expressions. Not their ministry models. Their faith — the quality of trust, the depth of conviction, the pattern of surrender that animated everything they did. That is the transferable inheritance, and it is what every young person at this camp is called to receive and carry forward.
Before tonight's main session, take ten minutes to write down the name of one spiritual leader or mentor who has shaped your faith, and three specific things their life has taught you. Be ready to share one of them with your dormitory group tomorrow morning.
Father, we thank You for every man and woman of God who carried the flame of faith before us. We ask for the grace of remembrance. Teach us to honour our spiritual fathers and mothers not merely with words but with the quality of our lives.
And as we gather at this camp, let something be deposited in our spirits that will still be burning years from now, when younger believers look to us and see what genuine faith looks like. In the name of Jesus, who is the same yesterday, today and forever. Amen.
If you were to compile a list of the most remarkable statements ever made in human history, the promise Jesus made in John 14:12 would deserve a place near the top. On the night before His crucifixion, with the shadow of the cross already falling across the upper room, Jesus turned to His trembling, confused, overwhelmed disciples and made a declaration that staggers the imagination: whoever believes in Him will do the works He has been doing, and greater things than these.
Greater things than Jesus. Greater than healing the sick, opening blind eyes, raising the dead, stilling storms, feeding thousands, turning water into wine. How does one even begin to process such a statement?
And it was made not to a gathering of seasoned theologians but to a group of mostly young, largely uneducated men whose greatest claim to fame was that they had followed Jesus around for three years. It came in a moment of maximum uncertainty, when the future looked most threatening. And it was left not as a theological curiosity for seminaries to debate, but as a living inheritance for every believer who would come after — including the young men and women at this camp.
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. John 14:12 (NIV)
The solemnity of the verse is signalled at once by 'very truly I tell you' — the Greek amên amên legô humin. The doubled 'amen' is unique to John's Gospel and appears only on the lips of Jesus. It functions as a divine signature, marking what follows as a statement of absolute certainty, carrying the full weight of the Son of God's authority. What He is about to say is not speculation or aspiration. It is guaranteed truth.
The scope is set by the word 'whoever' — ho pisteuôn, literally 'the one who believes'. This is deliberately broad. It is not addressed to the twelve apostles alone, to ordained ministers alone, or to a specially gifted elite. It is addressed to every authentic believer, in every generation, of every background and age. The young person in the dormitory this morning is included in that 'whoever'.
The phrase 'greater things than these' has generated real theological debate. The key lies in the clause that follows: 'because I am going to the Father.' When Jesus ascended and sent the Holy Spirit, the ministry of the Kingdom was not diminished — it was multiplied. What one anointed man could do in three years in one region, thousands of Spirit-filled believers would do across centuries and continents. The greater works are not greater in kind but in scope, scale and reach. The mustard seed became a tree whose branches cover the earth.
For the young believer this carries a personal implication: you are not a spectator of a story written and completed by others. You are a participant in an unfinished mission. The works of Christ continue, and they continue through you.
Identify one greater work you sense God calling you to that feels beyond your natural ability. Write it down and share it privately with your counsellor. Spend five minutes in prayer today asking the Holy Spirit to equip you for it. Then take one concrete step toward it before this camp ends.
Lord Jesus, we receive Your promise with trembling and gratitude. We confess that we have often lived far below the level of what You declared possible for those who believe. We have domesticated Your promises and downsized our faith to fit our comfort.
Today we ask You to expand our vision to match Your promise. Fill us freshly with Your Holy Spirit. Let the fire that burned in the apostles burn in us. And let this generation of Assemblies of God youth be a generation through whom You do things that will cause our fathers to marvel and our children to give thanks. We believe. Help our unbelief. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Jude had other plans. When he sat down to write, he intended a warm, expansive reflection on the salvation he shared with his readers. But the Holy Spirit interrupted those plans with an urgency that could not be set aside. Something was wrong. Something was threatening the community of faith from within.
The short, fierce letter that resulted — twenty-five verses, one of the shortest books in the New Testament — became one of the most urgent pieces of writing in all of apostolic literature. The word translated 'contend' is the Greek epagônizesthai, from which we get the English word 'agonise'. It is the language of athletic contest, of wrestling, of a fighter who has entered the arena and will not leave until the victory is secured. Jude is not inviting his readers to a polite theological discussion. He is calling them to a fight.
Every generation must fight this fight. The infiltration Jude described — ungodly people slipping into the community of faith and distorting the grace of God into a licence for immorality — is not a first-century problem. It is a permanent feature of the landscape every believing community must navigate. And for the youth gathered here the question is sharply relevant. In a world where the definition of faith is constantly renegotiated, where new revelations compete with the ancient apostolic deposit, where social pressure and cultural accommodation press to reshape the Church's message — will you contend, or will you drift?
Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's holy people. Jude 1:3 (NIV)
'The faith that was once for all entrusted' is theologically loaded. 'Once for all' — Greek hapax — does not mean 'a long time ago and now irrelevant'. It means once, definitively, completely, with nothing remaining to be added. The apostolic deposit of faith, delivered through the prophets and apostles and embodied in Jesus Christ, is complete. It is sufficient. It needs no supplementation, revision or modernisation to remain true.
That is a direct challenge to a landscape in which new revelations and fresh words are constantly offered as improvements on, or replacements for, the apostolic deposit. Jude insists that the foundation has already been laid (1 Corinthians 3:11), the faith has already been delivered, and our task is not to reinvent it but to defend it and hand it on faithfully. The word 'entrusted' — paradidomi — is the same word Paul uses in 1 Corinthians 15:3 when he writes that what he received he passed on. It is the language of tradition in the richest sense: not dead formalism, but the living transfer of a sacred treasure from hand to hand across the generations. The faith is not our invention. It is our inheritance. And inheritance comes with responsibility.
To contend for this faith does not mean being aggressive, argumentative or combative in personal relationships. It means holding the truth firmly against the pressure to compromise it — refusing to let the faith be distorted, diluted or discarded, whether by external persecution, internal heresy, or the slow corrosion of cultural accommodation. It is the work of every generation, and it falls with particular urgency on the young, who will carry the faith into contexts their parents could not have anticipated.
Choose one core Christian doctrine you feel least confident explaining — the Trinity, the resurrection, the authority of Scripture, the necessity of the new birth. Commit to studying it seriously over the next thirty days. Ask your counsellor or pastor to recommend one resource. The faith you cannot explain is the faith you cannot defend.
Heavenly Father, we receive the faith once for all delivered to the saints as our most precious inheritance. Forgive us for the times we have treated it casually, for the moments we have been ashamed of it, for the compromises we made to avoid discomfort.
Fill us with the courageous spirit of Jude, of Paul, of Stephen, and of all who stood firm when it was costly. Help us to know what we believe and why we believe it. And let this generation hand the faith to those who come after us — intact, uncompromised and still burning. In the name of the One who is the same yesterday, today and forever. Amen.
Every great relay race is won or lost at the exchange zone. The fastest runner in the world is of no use if the baton is dropped in the transfer. And the history of the Christian faith is, at its deepest, the story of a baton — the Gospel of Jesus Christ — passed from generation to generation, across centuries, continents and cultures, without being dropped, altered or lost.
You have spent three mornings examining this baton from three angles. On Tuesday, through Hebrews 13:7, you looked back and received the inheritance of your spiritual fathers — their lives, their faith, their costly faithfulness. On Wednesday, through John 14:12, you looked up and received the audacious promise that greater works are possible for those who believe. On Thursday, through Jude 1:3, you looked around and received the summons to defend the faith against the forces, internal and external, that would dilute or destroy it.
This morning you look forward. You are the link in the chain. The faith of your fathers has been handed to you. The promise of greater works is addressed to you. The call to contend is issued to you. And behind you — in your communities, your schools, your future families and your future churches — a younger generation is already forming, already watching, already waiting for someone to show them what it looks like to carry this faith with integrity and fire. That someone is you.
Remember your leaders… consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. Hebrews 13:7 — the backward orientation
Whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing… even greater things than these. John 14:12 — the upward orientation
Contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's holy people. Jude 1:3 — the forward-guarding orientation
A faith that only looks back becomes traditionalism: the preservation of forms without the presence of fire. A faith that only looks forward becomes enthusiasm without roots, vulnerable to every wind of doctrine and fashion. A faith that only guards itself becomes defensiveness without mission. But the young believer who holds all three together — who remembers, who believes for greater works, and who contends — becomes what the Church has always needed: a faithful link in an unbroken chain.
You have opened the Word of God in the company of your peers and your counsellor. Perhaps something has stirred in you that you are still struggling to name — a sense of calling, a renewed conviction, a fresh awareness of what you have been given and what is being asked of you in return. Do not let that stirring pass without responding to it. The stirring is the voice of the Holy Spirit, who was sent to guide you into all truth (John 16:13), to remind you of everything Jesus said (John 14:26), and to give you power to be His witness to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8).
The faith of your fathers is not a museum exhibit. It is a living flame, passed hand to hand across the generations by men and women who paid for it with their lives, their comfort, their reputations and their futures. It has reached you still burning. The only question that remains is the one every generation must answer for itself: will you carry it faithfully forward?
Lord God, Father of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — Father of the pioneers of the Assemblies of God, Ghana, who planted churches in the bush and the forest and the remotest villages of this nation — we stand in the inheritance of their faithfulness, and we receive it with gratitude and with trembling.
We are young. We know that. We feel the inadequacy of our years and the vastness of the calling. But You have said that whoever believes in Jesus will do greater works, and we choose to believe You today — not because we feel equal to it, but because You have promised it and Your word does not fail.
Send us back to our churches, our schools, our families and our communities as people who have been with You. Let the fire of this camp be not the peak of our spiritual experience but the beginning of a new depth. Let the faith of our fathers live in our hands — intact, uncompromised, burning.
We commit to remember. We commit to believe. We commit to contend. And we commit to pass what we have received to those who come after us, so that when the last trumpet sounds and the King returns in glory, the chain will be unbroken and the faith will be found still burning, still faithful, still whole.
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Use these during intercession in the morning and evening services.
| Day | Morning | Evening |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | — | Thanksgiving, confession and rededication |
| Tuesday | Executive Presbytery and Executive Committee | The leadership of the nation |
| Wednesday | The Transformation Agenda | The peace and prosperity of the nation |
| Thursday | 2026 World Congress, the Centenary City project, Legacy Temple projects | Pastors and the growth of churches — spiritual, numerical, financial, infrastructural |
| Friday | Supernatural manifestations in the lives of members | 2027 Regional Council meetings |
Directors form ten prayer groups of at least six members each. The chain runs unbroken for thirty hours, from Tuesday 6:00 am to Wednesday 12:00 noon. Each group takes two turns of ninety minutes.
My group and turn times
Tuesday 6:00 am to Wednesday 12:00 noon. Twenty turns of ninety minutes, back to back, with no gap.
| Gp | Time | Prayer focus |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday | ||
| 1 | 6:00 – 7:30 am | The General Superintendent and his executives |
| 2 | 7:30 – 9:00 am | The Regional Superintendents and their executives |
| 3 | 9:00 – 10:30 am | The District Pastors and their executives |
| 4 | 10:30 am – 12:00 noon | Local pastors and their deacons |
| 5 | 12:00 noon – 1:30 pm | Departmental leaders, national to local |
| 6 | 1:30 – 3:00 pm | The Transformation Agenda: Reach, Rebuild, Restore |
| 7 | 3:00 – 4:30 pm | The Transformation Agenda: Reform, Reposition, Rebrand |
| 8 | 4:30 – 6:00 pm | Legacy Temple projects |
| 9 | 6:00 – 7:30 pm | Centenary City project |
| 10 | 7:30 – 9:00 pm | 2026 World Assemblies of God Congress |
| 1 | 9:00 – 10:30 pm | 2027 Regional and District Council meetings and elections |
| 2 | 10:30 pm – 12:00 midnight | The leadership of the nation |
| Wednesday | ||
| 3 | 12:00 – 1:30 am | Restoration of holy living, the fear of God and great grace upon the Church |
| 4 | 1:30 – 3:00 am | Revival and growth of the departments |
| 5 | 3:00 – 4:30 am | Missions, evangelism and church planting programmes |
| 6 | 4:30 – 6:00 am | Standing against satanic projection toward the Transformation Agenda and the growth of Assemblies of God, Ghana |
| 7 | 6:00 – 7:30 am | Programmes and projects of the Youth Ministry |
| 8 | 7:30 – 9:00 am | Numerical growth of the Church |
| 9 | 9:00 – 10:30 am | Financial and infrastructural growth of the Church |
| 10 | 10:30 am – 12:00 noon | Supernatural manifestations in the lives of members: healing, occupational, academic, financial, marital |
Group numbers for turns 11–20 are shown as each group's second turn. Adjust the numbering if your Director assigns groups differently.
The vision of the General Superintendent, Rev. Stephen Yenusom Wengam, set out in six thematic areas.
Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow to it. Micah 4:1–2
The Executive Presbytery set the task of aggressively reaching every community and planting churches in every town and village with greater passion and excellence. By God's grace many churches have been planted in the past four years, and the Youth Ministry has carried out evangelistic activity in its communities.
Major infrastructural development is being pursued. Legacy Temples are being built nationwide, and the vision for the Centenary City is on course with the Centenary City Committee now set up. As a department, our first Legacy Temple is under construction.
Restore the Pentecostal fervour and seek an Azusa-style, early-church revival. This brought the National Week of Prayer and Fasting, marked each year by daily prayer meetings, a Friday all-night and twenty-four hours of non-stop prayer across the country. The mid-year National Prayer and Fasting, the first Pastors and Spouses National Retreat, and the Prayer Warriors Retreat were also held.
Resource the Headquarters to deliver on its mandates while pursuing administrative reform and restructuring. The Centenary Reform Committee has been set up to review and critically evaluate our hundred-year journey as an organisation.
Reposition AG as the leading Pentecostal–Charismatic church in Ghana, with demonstrable leadership on all fronts in the Pentecostal and Charismatic space.
Make us more visible and appealing so that new members are drawn in. The Executive Presbytery has produced a new Church Manual serving as both a branding and an administrative guide.
As we pursue this agenda we will shift to more encompassing ways of spreading the revivals that brought forth the AG, grow in our position of delivering life-changing Pentecostal gospel to the world, and transform into an entity that develops its members, serves the body of Christ and impacts the nation. The end result will be a vibrant, thriving Assemblies of God, Ghana — more effective, more impactful, more relevant.
Declared together at every morning service.
I boldly declare that 2026 is my year to emulate the faith of our fathers.
I therefore commit to build strong faith by emulating the fiery faith of our fathers as revealed in the Scriptures, to walk in greater faith, to achieve greater works and to preserve sound doctrine.
I will prioritise listening to the teaching and preaching of God's word. I will personally study and apply biblical principles to build my faith and my life, and to positively influence my family and my community.
I seek to preserve and honour the ancient pathways of faith and to uphold the sacred values of the early Church. I will endure the trial of my faith with a Christlike attitude.
I will pursue sound doctrine, and I will preserve and protect the faith by resisting false teaching and distortion.
In 2026, I will build my faith by praying in the Spirit always.
I will meditate on the word of God daily and confess it in every situation and at all times.
I will endeavour to pass on the faith of the fathers to the next generation.
I will share the faith of the fathers through personal evangelism and aggressive church planting.
In 2026, I will walk the ancient paths of righteousness and pursue the fiery faith of our fathers.
So help me God.
I am a Christ's Ambassador. I know the reality of being born again and recognise the responsibility of being filled with the Spirit.
As an Ambassador for Christ, I shall ever strive to be:
To this end, my every action shall be governed by a friendly attitude and motivated by a Christian love. For I am a Christ's Ambassador.
Frederick W. Faber, 1849
Fill this in on the last day, before the emotion of the final night fades.
The test of what God has done this week is not what you feel on the last night. It is what you are still doing six months from now.
Assemblies of God, Ghana
Youth Department · Annual Youth Camp 2026
Christ for All! All for Christ.