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Reverend Joseph Eastwood Anaba is a graduate pharmacist from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. Pastor Eastwood left the pharmacy profession to go into full time ministry of the Lord in 1988.
One of the end-time Ministry Gifts to the Body of Christ, he is a strong and forthright preacher of the Word, a mentor and father to those God has placed under his ministry. His message centres on the Holy Ghost, righteousness, discipline and order in the Body of Christ. He has a strong desire for the manifestation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the power of God in the body of Christ. Currently he is on a campaign for the Love Revolution, a spiritual effort which seeks to release an outbreak of the Love of God in the Church and the world at large.
An author and anointed preacher and speaker, Pastor Eastwood is dedicated to making sure his gifting and wealth of experience are reaping for the Body of Christ a harvest that will impact future generations.
He is the author of over seventy books including his best sellers: God’s End Time Militia, the Quest for Supremacy and The Love Revolution.
He and his wife Rosemond live with their children in Bolgatanga where he pastors the DESERT PASTURES, a member church of the Fountain Gate Chapel with a congregation of over three thousand members.
The church was birthed as an idea of high conviction in the heart of Rev. Eastwood Anaba.
He believed that ancestral worship and its concomitants – superstition, ignorance, diseases and poverty-could not be the divine purpose for his people.
NINTAM (as the Fountain Gate Chapel was then called) which means Tears in the Frafra dialect was the acronym for Northern Deliverance In Tears Ministry, the full name of the Ministry. Nintam was birthed out of the revelation that the ministry of spiritual deliverance of the people could not succeed in any other manner except by the ministry of love, compassion, a brokenness of heart before God for attention. Thus the humble success of this ministry was as a result of those times of intercession in the open Bolgatanga Sports Stadium.
The Nintam Ministry after about 1½ years of intercessory emphasis believed that God was leading the ministry to another ministerial emphasis. The name Broken Yoke Foundation was chosen to give expression to the new direction of spiritual emphasis. An aggressive move of the Holy Spirit to break the yokes of the people of the Land released an amazing dimension of the anointing. The present name Fountain Gate Chapel became necessary again for the church to depict yet another phase in the life of the church- when the evangelistic and prophetic role of the ministry produced people who had to settle down as thriving churches to water the lands where they were found as supernatural fountains.
PERSECUTION
At this time persecution on the church had so increased that husbandsthreatened their wives with divorce if they did not leave the church. Some women really had to leave the church to save their marriages.
CONSTRUCTION OF THE SANCTUARY OF GLORY
The church secured a parcel of land and began the construction of its own meeting place the Sanctuary of Glory. Motivated to work and finance the project, women sold their cloth and men disposed of their bicycles to raise funds. Meanwhile Sunday church services were held in the mornings prior to constructional work under a leafless baobab tree.
CURRENT STATE OF FOUNTAIN GATE CHAPEL
From the humble beginning as an idea in the heart of a university student to the meeting of 6 people in an isolated office in Bolgatanga, the Fountain Gate Chapel has grown to have over 56 branches in Ghana, Ouagadougou, London, Hamburg, and Düsseldorf. The church has a fully operational first cycle educational institution up to the J.S.S level. Plans are far advanced to start a Senior Secondary School. The church through its social wing the Help Foundation takes care of the educational needs of orphans and destitute children and runs Fountain Gate Ministerial Academy (FGMA) which is the bible school.
Credit: Fountain Gate Chapel website
