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Prophet Charles Koblavi Nutornutsi Wovenu
Charles Koblavi Nutornutsi Wovenu (1918-1999) was born during the First World War at Anyako in the Volta Region. He is a Prophet, a healer and the founder of the Apostles Revelation Society in Ghana.

Personal Life
Prophet C. K. N Wovenu was born in 1918 to Madam Mikayanawo Dzakpata and Mr.Emmauel Nutornutsi Adra Kluvia. Out of great fear for his grandfather, Mr. Sewornu Dzakpata, Mikayanawo who is the mother of Prophet C.K.N Wovenu had to run to the bush to give birth to her son, C.K.N. Wovenu .At age eight, he was baptized with the name ‘’Charles’’ on the 26th December, 1926 at Assahoun by Reverend Robert Domingo Baeta.

Educational Background
Prophet Wovenu started elementary school in 1926 at Adzanu,Togo and later continued in Anyarko. He lost his mother on January 16,1932 and was later cared for by Mr. Joseph Attipoe. At the age of sixteen, he left for Akuse.

Early Profession
In 1935, Prophet Wovenu was employed as a Prison Warden at the Prison Service In Akuse. His profession as Prison warden did not last long as resigned from the Prison service in 1936, exactly a year after employment. He later relocated to Akwatia where he worked as a laborer for a diamond prospecting company, the Consolidated African selection Trust(CAST). He later rose through the clerical ranks and became a supervisor at CAST, a promotion which to him was a blessing from God. He began organizing prayer sessions,evangelizing to people, and started forming small choirs both at Akuse and Akwatia.

In October 1939, during the outbreak of the Second World War, Prophet Wovenu rejected the offer of enlisting into the army to fight for Ghana's colonial master. He returned home to Anyarko where he started spreading the gospel of Christ.

Life as a Prophet
In November 1,1939 the late Prophet C.K.N Wovenu, resettled at Tadzewu where his father and other members of his family were staying. He then started his Missionary work with immediate effect. Prophet Wovenu started his evangelism and many of whom he started preaching the gospel were children. As a prophet, the Lord used him conduct a lot miracles like curing all manner of disabilities and abnormalities. For instance, he prayed for cripples to walk, he was benevolent to the poor and the needy, the destitute, the afflicted, and was a role model to all even to those who were pagans at that time. He also made intercessory prayers for those barren and his presence was a form of comfort and happiness to those who were troubled at heart.

He was a living evidence of what he preached from the Holy Bible. He was a patriotic leader and he also inculcated into the members of the A.R.S the genuine sense of Christian values.

Humanitarian and Patriotic Activities in Ghana and outside
As patriotic as he was, Prophet Wovenu played a principal and a major role and a sermon at a consecration ceremony of Dedication at the Christiansborg Castle, Osu Osu,Accra on Sunday, the 22nd of May I966. This was during the time of the National Liberation Council, the interim government of Ghana. Again, he prayed for the release of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah who was sentenced to fifteen(15) years imprisonment on 21st January 1950 by the Gold Coast Government and indeed by 12th February 1951, 7:30 am, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was released. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah only served 3 months in prison instead of 15 years.

Also, with regards to the six(6) Arab-Isreali War of 1948, Prophet Wovenu prophesied to Mr. Cohen, who was the then leader of a delegation sent to him, that the war would be won by them. Indeed, Mr. Cohen came back in May 1967 to thank Prophet Wovenu.

Prophet Wovenu saw to the establishment of sixty (60) free academic and vocational institutions for all persons and children to have equal access to educate or vocational training. Most of these institutions were later absorbed by the Ghana Education Service. Currently, the church has a Nursery, a Primary/Junior High School, and a Senior High Secondary and Technical School and a Seminary for the training of its Clergy. Earlier, the Church established a divine school for Moral and Vocational Training for the members and their children.

Due to hard work and active involvement in the spread of the gospel of Christ, He established branches of the Apostle Revelation Society churches in the United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA), Canada, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Israel and Yugoslavia. He has to his credit over seven hundred branches in the West Africa Sub Region. This includes eleven (11) branches in Togo, Nine (9) in Benin, Two (2) in Ivory Coast and Nigerian and in Ghana, there are over 50 branches scattered in almost all the regions.

Again, Prophet Wovenu wrote several books on different topics including marriage, purity, obedience is better than sacrifice, the sabbath day, fornication. just to mention a few.

His Death
On 10th March 1999, Prophet Wovenu traveled to London on his usual evangelism with some of his evangelical team. He and his team performed numerous tasks assigned to all them and a day before they were to return to Ghana on the 9th April 1999. However, Prophet Wovenu passed away on the night of 10th April 1999 in London at the age of 81 years.