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James Mckeown was born at Ballymena in Northern Ireland to Irish parents, William John Mckeown and Elizabeth Thompson. He helped his father on the farm and later became a tram driver.
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He had delayed the decision to become a missionary for 15 months after a prophecy had been made that he would go to West Africa on Missionary duty. He had initially refused to become a missionary owing chiefly to his inadequate formal training. He settled in Asamankese and begun his missionary work there.
This eventually culminated in the founding of the Church of Pentecost after Ghana"s first President Doctor Kwame Nkrumah advised for a change of name so as to settle disputes that arose as a result of its break away., In early 1982, James Mckeown handed over leadership of the Church to a Ghanaian, Review
F. South. Sarfo, and inducted him into office in October 1982 after which left Ghana. He paid his last visit to the West African country in 1984.
James died on May 4, 1989, at his home in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.
