After spending more than a month in police jail for allegedly defrauding some of her church members of money, evangelist Patricia Asiedu, aka Nana Agradaa, marked her return to the pulpit.
Agradaa was not able to comply with her bail requirements until last week, after the courts had reviewed them.
The first Sunday after her release from detention was Sunday, November 27, and she returned to the pulpit with a service filled with worship and praise singing, as shown in recordings examined by GhanaWeb.
Afradaa, who was dressed in an all-white long dress, matching headwear, and a hankerchief, gave the opening words for the service and thanked her husband, churchgoers, and supporters for standing with her during her judicial journey.
“Today, my husband and I are saying, “Jesus, we thank you. We give thanks to Jesus. We express our gratitude to God and to his cherished Son Jesus Christ this morning.
“What God has done for us is enormous and beyond our comprehension. What we may say is, “Thank you Jesus Christ for everything that happened, if God looked after us and brought us out safely.”
She sung frequently about how the “Blood of Jesus” has been essential to surviving the suffering in her heated praise performance at the service, which was limited to a small number of church members, most of whom were dressed in white.
She chanted continuously, “The Blood of Jesus, has spared me from jail, it has saved me from the devil, it has saved me from death, it has saved me from humiliation.”