Meet Dela, a Jesus Film Rider
- OneWay
- Jan 1, 2024
- 2 min read
The harvest fields he walks through are not of grain, but of the unreached lives in northern Ghana. Dela Saviour Kuadugah was trained as an agronomist, which is the study of how agricultural practices can be modified to improve society. Now, instead of working with plants, he is working with people.
He began to feel God calling him to missions in 2014 and served as a street evangelist on the weekends. In 2020, after he had graduated from Livingstone School of Missions, director of OneWay Africa, Ray Mensah, offered him the position of a Jesus Film rider.
As a rider, Dela steers his motorbike through dangerous terrain to show the Jesus Film to unreached people in remote villages in northern Ghana.
“I love everything about what I do, because I know my life is for that,” he says, “My life is to preach Jesus, because my life is for ministry.”
He acknowledges that the work is hard and dangerous, but the joy that comes with bringing the good news to people makes it all worthwhile.
Dela has ministered among the Dagomba people. The Dagombas are predominantly Muslim, and the greatest barrier of conversion to Christianity is fear of persecution.
“They're afraid that if they come out they will be persecuted, maybe killed,” Dela says. Because Islamic spies often come to Jesus Film showings, Dela has chosen to not make public altar calls. Instead, he and other missionaries follow-up on the Jesus Film showings with house-to-house evangelism.
“You know, they're tough (the Dagombas), but by the grace of God, the Lord is working on them, breaking the ground, and we are seeing them come to Christ,” Dela says.
Dela's message to the Church in the West  The work Dela and the other riders have been doing is reaping exponentially. But there is still much more work to be done. Dela has a message for the Church in the West:
It takes only $6,000 to equip a rider with a motorbike, gear and film equipment to get them on the field.  |
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