I was sacked from church, my father rejected me - Bishop Ben Owusu

Founder and General Overseer of The Pottersville Church International and United Nations Peace Ambassador, Samuel Ben Owusu, has revealed that his prophetic calling led to rejection from both his church and his father.

Speaking in an interview with MzGee on Behind The Pulpit, Bishop Owusu recounted how his belief in the prophetic caused deep conflict within his family and church community.

Before fully accepting the call of God on his life, Bishop Owusu said he struggled to survive in Accra, where he hawked toothpaste on the streets alongside other young men from the Adansi community, living around the slum popularly known as Sodom and Gomorrah.

According to him, recurring strange dreams eventually led him to seek counsel from a man of God, who confirmed that he had a divine calling.

“So that was where I stopped selling, left Accra, took my things and went back to the village—to my parents. It was hell, because we did not believe in the Holy Ghost speaking. We did not believe in all these kinds of things,” he said.

Bishop Owusu explained that he was born into a staunch Seventh Day Adventist family, with his father serving as a lead evangelist who established about 32 branches of the church in the New Edubiase District. This, he said, largely accounted for his father’s resistance to prophetic ministry at the time.

“I told my dad that I had received the call of God—that I wanted to be a prophet, that I was a man of God. I started seeing, I started hearing, I started praying for people. But my father wouldn’t understand, and the church too wouldn’t understand,” he revealed.

As tensions grew, Bishop Owusu said the church eventually dismissed him.

“I had a problem with the church, and they had to sack me,” he stated.

When asked by MzGee how his father reacted to the church’s decision, Bishop Owusu responded plainly:

My father also rejected me

He added that although his mother did not agree with the decision, she was powerless to oppose it.

The interview sheds light on the often difficult personal journeys behind spiritual leadership and the cost many endure in answering what they believe to be a divine call.