The Paul Heuermann Family - Ghana
Paul Davis Heuermann was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ray Davis Heuermann on March 28, 1949 in Conroe, Texas. He was saved in 1959 and surrendered to the ministry in July 1967.
Brother Paul married the former Kerri Lynn Custer Keith on November 23, 1977 in Alto, Texas. Kerri is the daughter of Mr. Harlod Custer and Lura Louise Lee and Robert Keith. She was born in Denver, Colorado and was saved January, 1973. The Heuermanns have three children: Michael David born April 9, 1980; Stephen Daniel born May 27, 1981 and Adrianna Nicole Bostic (Nikki) Heuermann born April 11, 1989.
About Ghana
Ghana is a densely populated lowland country with a prosperous enonomy noted for its gold mining and the production of cacao, which is used to make cocoa and chocolate. The population is 20,244,154. Accra is the capital city and the largest city in the country.
Ghana is a former British colony known as the Gold Coast until 1957 when it became the first state in sub-Saharan Africa to gain political independence from European colonial rule. Since that time it has been a leader to help other countries gain independence.
The natural resources of Ghana include gold, bauxite, manganese and diamonds. Twenty-eight percent of the area of Ghana is forest land producting valuable hardwoods such as mahogany, odum and ebony. The forest regions are inhabited by monkeys, snakes and antelopes and some of the major rivers contain crocodiles. There are more than 725 species of birds in Ghana. Twenty-three percent of the land is farmed.
About The Work
The Baptist Missionary Association of America officially began working in Ghana in December of 1994 when a group of eleven pastors expressed a desire to affiliate with our association. The BMA of Africa now has over two hundred churches and missions established in seven West African countries: Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria and Benin. Over 30,000 people have made professions of faith since 1997! In Ghana we have a Bible Institute with an enrollment of thirty. A "compound" which will have two missionary houses, the Bible Institute and the headquarters building for the BMA of Africa has been planned and work has begun on this project. A loan has been obtained from the Foreign Revolving Loan fund to purchase land and build the two missionary houses. The two houses have been completed and construction continues on the remaining facilities.
Our Missions 
