Background
Kissi was born in Abomosu, Ghana.
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Emmanuel Abu Kissi
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He studied medicine in England.
Career
He is one of only a few black Africans to have served as an area seventy in the church. He has also been involved with trying to coordinate humanitarian medical care by other doctors in Ghana. Kissi was among those featured in the film Lives of Service about Latter-day Saints of African descent.
Initially after his return to Ghana, Kissi was a professor at Legon University medical school and was working as a general surgeon at Korle Bu Hospital.
The first Latter-day Saint he met in Ghana was Priscilla Sampson-Davis who was reading the Doctrine and Covenants while waiting for treatment at the hospital. Church leadership
He had also been a branch president, and in the late 1980s he was a counselor in the presidency of the Ghana Accra Mission.
Kissi was designated as the official head of the church in Ghana, a position he held until "The Freeze" was over in November 1990. At the same time, from 1989 to 1991, he was president of the Ghana Accra Mission.
After this Kissi served the church as a Regional Representative of the Twelve, then as a counselor in the mission presidency.
Kissi was serving as patriarch of the Accra Ghana Lartebiokorshie Stake before being called as an area seventy from 2002 to 2007. Kissi was present at the dedication of the Accra Ghana Temple in 2001.
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Religion
In The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints