About This Grace of Giving
Beth Wills
Founder, This Grace of Giving
Beth Wills was born in New Jersey and moved when she was a child to Florida where she attended high school. She got a BA degree in Communications from Florida Atlantic University in 1977. She landed a job at Lockheed Aeronautical in 1980 where she met the love of her life. They spent much time together traveling and ministering to others on many mission trips.
In 2004, she attended Covenant Life Seminary where she got a Certification of Christian Ministry and became an ordained minister in 2014 by Abundant Life Church. One of her mission trips was to Ghana in Africa in 2010 where she saw a desperate need for God and fell in love with the people there. She ministered there for a couple of weeks and built a well for drinking water.
Back home a few years later, she answered the call of God and decided to move to Ghana to be a shining light of hope to the people there and to show them what the love of God can do.
For more than 10 years, Beth served as a counselor at Family Haven, a battered women’s shelter, and Whispering Hope, a crisis pregnancy center. She was also the soup kitchen coordinator at The Place, a facility helping residents with short-term emergency basic survival needs, in her hometown of Cumming in Forsyth County, Georgia.
Beth has also worked as a treasurer at Abundant Life Church for more than 5 years and has served as a missionary in two other ministry missions: White Fields in Honduras in 2008 and Maranatha Ministries in Ghana in 2010. Amid all the turmoil in the region, Beth stands strong with the love, protection, and will of God that is with her every day.
Board Members
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Rev. E de Graft Sampson
Secretary
Pastor deGraft has a BS degree in Agriculture, an Advance Diploma in Theology, and Certification in Agricultural Administration. He functioned as CEO for an exporting firm and Project Analyst managing funds and conducting appraisals.
Pastor deGraft has a breadth of ministerial experience serving in numerous roles since 1993 as Superintendent of Christian Education. Senior Deacon, Associate Pastor, Lecturer, Executive Pastor, Director of Urban Missions. Now Pastor deGraft leads as Senior Pastor and Board Member/Secretary. He has been instrumental since the formation of TGoG assisting in non-profit compliance, mission trip itineraries, rescue and evangelism support efforts in the bush, and discipleship to the core team and pastor liaisons in remote areas.
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Christopher Afotey
General Manager, Building Contractor, President/Founder - Men of Action
“It’s fulfilling to work for This Grace of Giving as the head of projects. I have seen the sort of oy we bring to churches, villages, and newly saved souls. This is all because there is readily available work to do alongside the faith. Widows are being cared for, and the resettlement of the Fulani group is a big project currently ongoing at Assesewa village. My life and family have really improved in the Lord.”
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Kathryn Pennington
Fundraising Lead
Serves on several Non-Profit boards in the Tulsa Oklahoma area
Katheryn M. Pennington has a Bachelor of Science and MBA from the University of Tulsa. She has been involved with not-for-profit entities for 25 years. She has served in various teaching and mentoring roles at her local church where she has attended since 1975. Currently, her focus is a teacher/coach for Christians Against Poverty.
Having participated in missions trips to Mexico, Russia, Africa, and Cyprus, she co-founded a nonprofit organization to help prevent malaria. African women in Ghana were hired to make jewelry that was sold in the U.S. with the proceeds of purchasing mosquito nets. Nets were delivered to 11 countries around the world plus medicine purchased to treat malaria and other undeveloped countries’ diseases. Having visited Ghana on numerous trips, she has seen firsthand the needs of the Ghanaians. She is honored to serve on the Board of This Grace of Giving.
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Janine Hamelly
U.S. Coordinator
Janine has a BS degree in Business Management, held various management roles, and provided strategic support functions over the past 3 decades for 3 leading Security and Automation companies. She has served in leadership roles in her local church during that time frame as well - with a passion to help those in need throughout the community.
In 2014 Janine connected with Beth to support her efforts in Ghana. She assisted in the formation of TGoGs non-profit status and served as theUS Coordinator and Board Member since its formation. Janine joined the TGoG team to serve from the US, administratively and logistically with periodic trips to Ghana.
Local Team
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Kingsley Adonteng
Event Coordinator/Driver
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Moses Alidu
Multicultural Liaison, Ghana Eastern Region Pastor
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Bernard Ohene
Accounting, Translator
This Grace of Giving is a 501c.3 nondenominational Christian organization providing spiritual and physical help to the people of Ghana since 2010.