Missionary profile – Caesar Owuba

By Mercy Kambura

Caesar Owuba, missionary from Ghana to Angola and Northern Ghana

For the last three years, I have been a missionary among the Anufo in northern Ghana. I was posted among this Muslim people group for one year when I joined the National Service Scheme (NSS).

When I completed my NSS, I decided to stay in the place I was serving. There’s a huge need for Christ among the Anufo. The conflict and fighting mean many children are orphaned. The students come to school hungry and always tired. I felt a need to show the love of Christ to these people. You can’t minister to someone who’s hungry.

I understand them, in a way, because, I too, was a child of a single parent. I didn’t know my mom growing up, our relationship is still work in progress. Sadly, dad passed away in 2012.

Ghana is said to be a ‘Christian country’. So I was taken to church from an early age like most of my peers. After junior high school, I met the Lord. I used to go to a nearby church to pray, and one day, there was a baptism. I attended and learned that they were getting baptized because they had accepted Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. I hadn’t.

I was a sinner, and I needed to accept the sonship of Jesus to have eternal life. So, I did.

I didn’t hear about missions until I went to the university. I joined the Excellent Youth Outreach and we were taken for a short-term missions trip. I knew that I wasn’t saved to just say I was. I needed to help spread the gospel.

I came to know that there are people in Ghana where the gospel hasn’t reached, but I had the gospel. For my four years of university, all the holidays were spent at the mission field. We mostly went to northern Ghana where there are many unreached people groups.

I graduated in 2019 and went to Angola for a mission with Excellent Youth Outreach, before joining NYS.

I’m no longer under the government’s payroll, so I started a farm and a business – buying and selling farm produce – for upkeep. It’s not much, but it feeds me. I’ve also been volunteering in a school for the last three years. Currently, I’m the science master, almost all the teachers have been transferred from the school.

We’re hoping to set up a rice mill for the widows and orphans and arrange for a company to collect the chaff from here.

#Pray:

*For God to send more labourers; the work is plenty. I’m just an individual, I can’t go to all the communities.

*For safety – we have received threats to stop preaching the gospel.

*For the income-generating venture we hope to set up. As an outsider, I’m facing opposition.