Samuel Ben Owusu is the founder of The Pottersville Church
Bishop Samuel Ben Owusu, Founder and General Overseer of The Pottersville Church International, has opened up about his deeply challenging upbringing, describing a childhood marked by extreme poverty.
Speaking in an interview with MzGee on Behind The Pulpit, Bishop Owusu recounted how financial hardship cut short his formal education.
“I could not finish secondary school because poverty was too much. We were so poor that even poor people we knew—our mates—would forget their own poverty and use us as an example,” he said.
Born in Adansi to peasant farmers, Bishop Owusu described a life shaped by rural routines and limited opportunities.
“I was born in a village as a village boy in Adansi. My mother and father were farmers—village people. We would wake up, go to the farm, come home, cook, eat, sleep, then wake up and go back to the farm. That was our life,” he shared.
Raised in the Adventist faith, Bishop Owusu has since spent over two decades in ministry. He is also a United Nations Eminent Peace Ambassador and says his life’s calling is centred on leadership development within the Christian faith.
“My ministry is to raise leaders. By the grace of God, for over 23 years, I have been one of the leading prophets who has raised prophets across Africa, with a record of about 15,000 prophets,” he stated.
Driven by a determination to break free from poverty, Bishop Owusu later journeyed to Accra in search of better opportunities—a move that would ultimately lead him to a deeper Christian commitment and into the spiritual mentorship of the late Archbishop Benson Idahosa, one of Africa’s most influential preachers.
From a struggling village boy in Adansi to a global religious leader, Bishop Ben Owusu’s story stands as a testament to resilience, faith, and transformation.
