Kumasi Roots and US Dreams: A Journey with Ben

Roots in Kumasi, Faith in America: Ben on Community, Discipline, and ‘There Has to Be More’

I chat Benjamin Amankwah (“Ben”), a church “big brother,” about learning selflessness from home and church, encountering God young, and how church discipline, deep Sunday school teaching, strong mentors (including Maa Grace and others), and a motivating peer community shaped his faith and academics, including improved school performance after prioritizing church and study. Ben describes learning keyboard through multiple mentors, his initial lack of desire to travel, working in Ghana’s telecom sector, then moving to the U.S. for school, facing airport delays, winter, sickness, and restarting life while adjusting to structure and accountability. He advises young Christians to dream big, build a strong spiritual foundation before traveling, stay rooted in prayer, worship, and Bible study, and seek godly people and environments, then shares a 2026 focus on prayer and worship and the idea of “more of God.”