ABSTRACT
The Evangelical Presbyterian Church has its roots in the North German Mission, Bremen, and Germany. This Mission was organized in 1836, and sent missionaries to the then Slave Coast in 1847. In 1950 the Church began its mission work in northern Ghana in the Yendi area, establishing an agricultural work scheme there in 1958, and an agricultural training school for young farmers in 1962. A further attack on the Mission's language policy was made by Captain von Puttkammer in a report to the German Chancellor, in which he called the Ewe language 'a wild, extremely primitive Negro dialect'. When the Scottish Mission finally responded to the appeals of the British Government to aid the Ewe church in the British area, the missionaries were immediately able to organize the congregations into a self-governing, and largely self-supporting Church. The missionaries were to set a good example to their converts in their attitude towards civil authorities.
