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In 1847 missionaries of the North German Mission Society (Bremen Mission), closely cooperating with the Basel Mission, started work among the Ewe people in the east of present-day Ghana. After a period of rapid growth, at the outbreak of World War I, the church had two stations in the British Gold Coast Colony and seven in the German territory of Togoland. After the war German Togoland was divided into two mandated territories of the League of Nations, the western part under the British (The Gold Coast, now Ghana) and the eastern part under French rule (now Togo). In May 1922 the first synod of the mission at Kpalime declared itself the supreme governing body of the Ewe Church and elected the first moderator. The Congregational order of the North German Mission became the church order. In 1923 Scottish missionaries began to work in British Togo and in 1929 the Paris Mission took over in French Togo. For practical reasons, separate synods had to be set up in the two territories which led to separate development. To this day however, the two churches share the same constitution and hold a joint synod meeting every three years. In 1926 the name Ewe Hame (Ewe Church) was changed to Ewe Presbyterian Church. In 1954 the Ghana part of the church adopted the name Evangelical Presbyterian (EP) Church as a result of the expansion of the church beyond Eweland. The church is strongest in the Volta region of Ghana but has congregations all over the country.

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Presbyterians were only one of the reformed denominations that dominated American colonial life at the time of the Revolutionary War. Presbyterians participated in the writing of state and national constitutions. Reformed views of God's sovereignty and of human sinfulness moved the new nation toward checks and balances and separation of powers. Independence forced adjustment in church as well as government structures. In 1788, the synod met in Philadelphia to form the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA). It adopted a constitution that included a form of government, a directory of worship, and subscription to the Westminster Confession and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms. In 1789, the General Assembly held its first meeting in Philadelphia. In the early years of the 1800s, the church carried on revivals and organized congregations, presbyteries, and synods wherever they went, emphasizing the connectional nature of the church. Presbyterians helped as well to shape voluntary societies to encourage educational, missionary, evangelical, and reforming work. As the church began to realize that these functions were corporate in nature and as the century proceeded, it formed its own boards and agencies to address these needs at home and abroad. Mission to Native Americans, African Americans, and populations all over the world became a hallmark of the church. 2ff7e9595c