{"id":60323,"date":"2019-02-14T08:25:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T08:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=60323"},"modified":"2019-02-13T19:33:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T19:33:57","slug":"i-smoked-because-my-family-owned-a-marijuana-farm-pastor-abbeam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/i-smoked-because-my-family-owned-a-marijuana-farm-pastor-abbeam\/","title":{"rendered":"I Smoked Because My Family Owned A Marijuana Farm \u2013 Pastor Abbeam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned Pastor and entrepreneur,\u00a0Rev. Dr Abbeam Ampomah Danso has made some startling revelations about his life before meeting Christ.<\/p>\n<p>The servant of God who has founded many businesses has revealed that he backslid early in life before rejuvenating his walk with Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing his story on \u2018This Is Gospel\u2019 with Franky 5 on Hitz FM, the pastor disclosed that he was hooked on marijuana at the age of nine because his step-grandfather cultivated the herb.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAt the age of nine, my grandmother had married a man\u2026they farmed weed. I had the opportunity to start smoking because I saw all of them smoking,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Abbeam said he did not realize that he was going wayward because in his new environment, everyone in the family smoked.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI was smoking but yet I was going to Church. I wouldn\u2019t have seen that as a sin those days. It wasn\u2019t a problem because you could see them smoking and all that,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>The business magnate stated that he repented later in life.<\/h3>\n<p>Rev Abbeam is renowned because of his successes in various fields of endeavor in Ghana and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Recounting his journey to becoming an accomplished pastor and entrepreneur, he said life had<\/p>\n<p>become unbearable at the age of 13 when he was taken to the Volta Region.<\/p>\n<p>Having refused to return to his village &#8211; Kumawu in the Ashanti Region &#8211; he opted to travel to<\/p>\n<p>Accra and joined the struggle for survival at the age of 14.<\/p>\n<p>CHECK:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/uncle-ebo\/\">https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/uncle-ebo\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rev. Dr Abbeam Ampomah Danso, who lost his father at an early age, arrived in the capital and<\/p>\n<p>had neither shelter nor any relative in the city.<\/p>\n<p>After several failed attempts to start a business, he encountered a woman who he said made a prophecy on his life.<\/p>\n<p>The manifestation of that prophecy led the woman to take him in and this marked the transformation of his life.<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s Solution Center, Abeam Institute of Technology, Abbeam Estates, Abbeam Productions, Abbeam Health Center and Direct Access Ghana are some of his establishments.<\/p>\n<p>Credit:MyJoyOnline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned Pastor and entrepreneur,\u00a0Rev. Dr Abbeam Ampomah Danso has made some startling revelations about his life before meeting Christ. The servant of God who has founded many businesses has revealed that he backslid early in life before rejuvenating his walk with Christ. Sharing his story on \u2018This Is Gospel\u2019 with Franky 5 on Hitz FM, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6036,"featured_media":60325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[59698,59699],"class_list":["post-60323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-pastor-abbeam-news","tag-rev-dr-abbeam-ampomah-danso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60326,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60323\/revisions\/60326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}