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This society was established prior to the arrival of the first missionary pioneer, Rev. Joseph Dunwell to the Gold Coast in 1835
Reference is made of one Breku, a native of Anomabo who was imprisoned for debt and returned after his discharged.
This man, Breku became a Christian through De Graft's preaching in prison. His conversion led not only to the founding of this church but won many souls at Anomabo and other towns.
The way of God with this world is a mystery. Governor MacLean, who put De Graft and others in prison was a staunch and sincere Christian who proved himself a most loyal friend to the Mission after Dunwell's arrival. Being a just man, he would not have imprisoned De Graft and his friends, had he known the real facts. It was Joseph Smith's fear of what he did not understand which caused him to imprison De Graft and John Sam - two good men fell into error; and from that error came the conversion of a heathen trader confined in the cell as a debtor prisoner.
Breku, after he was released from prison, sought next a friend. He had occasion to speak to John Hayfron at Anomabo about God and Christianity and he also received the word with great joy in his heart and became a Christian through earnest prayer. A stronger and more energetic man than Breku, he did what the noble trader could never have done; he began the evangelistic work at Anomabo, preached to the people and converted many souls who formed a small society of which he became a leader.
They met for worship and prayer in his own house for months before the arrival of the first missionary, Joseph Dunwell, who visited Anomabo and received them into the Methodist Church in 1835. Note: he did not win them from fetishism,but as people already converted. Those who responded to John Hayfron’s impressive and earnest preaching were two young men.
His own son R. J. Hayfron who was later ordained as a minister in the Methodist Church and served enthusiastically in his pastoral work. He died in 1892. Another young man was E. J. Fynn who proceeded to Cape Coast shortly after G. O. Wrigley’s arrival and was baptized by him. He was one of the first to be employed by the Mission, and was sent to Dixcove as a teacher in the later part of 1835. He was afterwards transferred into Cape Coast and became instrumental in giving the church a new lease of life.
In 1852, he was stationed at Asafo, and while in this place he established a Church at Kuntu. He was ordained a full minister in 1858. a strenuous work was done at Dominasi where great revivals took place 1875, by his preaching as a result of which some hundreds became members of the church.
John A. Martin was the first African ordained into the Ministry of the Methodist Church in the Gold Coast. He was Freeman’s interpreter on his first critical visit to Kumasi and because of the zeal and enthusiasm, he was sent to England on Freeman’s recommendation to receive further education to be qualified for more work in the Mission. After his training in England, he returned to the Coast as an assistant African Missionary ordained by Freeman at Cape Coast in October 1852.
Another African great heart was John Plague. He illustrated the beginnings of Methodism in the District. He was born in Accra in 1820.
