28/02/2022
uncle TB, a pioneer of Students Ministry in IFES EPSA had gone Home. Uncle Eric Miller wrote: "In Africa there is a special connection with those we consider “Age Mates”. One of my age mates, the Rev. Dr. T.B. Dankwa has just passed on to his eternal reward. I first crossed paths with T.B. on my first trip to Africa in 1968 at a regional conference of the Pan Africa Fellowship of Evangelical Students at the University of Ghana, Legon where he was a student participant. The conference was led by Gottfried Osei-Mensah, ten years our senior, who has been a driving force for change around the world.
T.B. went on to be one of the early pioneers of the student ministry in Africa. He became the first Regional Secretary of IFES, then known as the Anglophone Africa Region. In 1979, T.B. and I reconnected and our friendship and partnership in the Gospel grew over the years. He cared, loved, encouraged, mentored, and stood with so many of us till the very end. He, like myself, was passionate about encouraging students to Follow Jesus and getting groups to discover the riches of the Scriptures.
Gideon Para-Mallam. one of his successors who I have served with and under, has shared with me that over the last months, T.B.’s health had declined to the point where he was falling in and out of coma. Gideon thinks his condition was related to ‘old age’.
Gideon shared this early announcement that he received:
‘In the hope of the resurrection we announce the transition of Rev. Dr. T. B. Dankwa. Last Sunday was his 78th birthday. Among other things we asked God to stretch His healing hand on him and restore him to us or to Himself. Our God has heard our prayers! Our brother has exchanged mortality for immortality! He has joined the cloud of witnesses who have finished their race and been received into the immediate presence of the Lord. As we give thanks to God, let us remember his wife, Dr Mrs Virginia Dankwa, their children: Ama, Akosua, Kwadwo and Kwaku. May the Lord be their comfort and strength in their time of grief.’
I join in prayer for Virginia and the family and all who experienced the love and guidance of my ‘brother’ T.B. over the last fifty years".Colied