Accra, Ghana — For nearly three decades, one week every year has drawn Ghanaian Christians of every denomination onto the same campus grounds, chasing the same thing: the presence of God, not just His power.
That week returns this Wednesday. Reverend Steve Mensah joined Sunny 88.7 FM's Inspirational Morning Drive to talk about this year's National Holy Ghost Action Campaign, running July 8–12, 2026, at Wisconsin International University College, North Legon — with morning sessions at 8:30am and evening sessions at 5:30pm daily.
The campaign traces back to a single encounter in the mid-1990s, when Rev. Mensah — then a university student — attended a program hosted by Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams and heard a guest speaker known as Eastwood preach on the theme "The Trumpet."
"It was too much, too powerful," he recalled. Through a mutual friend, he invited the speaker to a small Holy Spirit seminar he was running. When the speaker arrived from Bolgatanga to preach, he gave the gathering a new name — and a new mission: to restore the felt presence of God to services that had become, in his words, routine.
"We feel that churches, ministries, fellowships have become a routine where we don't feel God's presence," Rev. Mensah said. "Praise, worship, word, and then we go. But he felt we need to bring back God's presence in our meetings."
The Difference Between Power and Presence
Asked how an ordinary believer moves from simply desiring God's power to actually walking in His presence day to day, Rev. Mensah pointed to something many Christians already experience without naming it.
"Many people say things like, 'something told me,' 'I heard something,' 'a voice told me,'" he said. "That's the Holy Spirit. It happens every day of your life — even as you're driving, and you hear, 'turn left,' and straight ahead was an accident that could have involved you and your family. The Holy Spirit is embedded in our everyday living."
He described full surrender to the Spirit as removing a ceiling most believers don't realize they've placed over their own lives.
"These days Christianity is so diluted that you just give a certain percentage of your life to God to use," he said. "The Bible says by strength shall no man prevail. When you surrender totally, the Lord will carry it to the ends of the world."
A Service With No Closing Time
This year's campaign will again be led in the spirit of what Rev. Mensah calls unstructured worship — services with a start time, but deliberately no end time.
"We've stayed up to 1:30 in the morning before, and people are still there," he said, describing past meetings that ran past midnight with healings, prophecy and worship continuing for hours past any planned schedule. "We have structured him. We have put him in a box. And because of that, it has limited his activities."
He expects this year to carry the same unpredictability — and the same reach. The full programme will be livestreamed on Sunny TV, Sunny FM, sunnygh.com, and across Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, meaning believers watching from the diaspora can take part in real time.
"So many things will take place when they are not even physically present in the auditorium," Rev. Mensah said. "They are in the US and other places, listening and watching live, and they experience the power — to show that the Holy Spirit has no boundaries."
An Invitation to Everyone
Rev. Mensah was clear that the campaign was never built for one church or denomination.
"This is not a same matter at all," he said. "This is a Christian community matter. This is a Ghana matter." His invitation was simple: "Come in your numbers, come expecting, come trusting God, come waiting to be revived."
He closed his time in the studio in prayer — for Sunny FM, for Ghana's leadership, and for families still recovering from recent flooding across the country.
Event Details
What: National Holy Ghost Action Campaign 2026, theme "Provoke" When: Wednesday, July 8 – Sunday, July 12, 2026 — 8:30am and 5:30pm daily Where: Wisconsin International University College, North Legon, Accra Watch live: Sunny TV, Sunny 88.7 FM, sunnygh.com, and Sunny FM's Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok pages Organized by: Charismatic Evangelistic Ministry