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Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, has revealed that Bishop Charles Agyinasare the Founder and Head Pastor of Perez Chapel International was his mate at the Law School at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).

Eulogizing the renowned man of God on his 60th birthday he revealed that they sat in class together for lectures recounting how the family has been a blessing

“Myself, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, Hon. Samuel Nartey George, Dr & Mrs Mensa Otabil and several others joined Bishop Charles Agyinasare to celebrate his 60th birthday on Tuesday, 22nd March, 2022.

I had the privilege of sitting in class and being a friend to Bishop at the GIMPA Law school some years back. His life has been a blessing to my family and many. May God continues to bless his ministry”, he wrote on his Facebook Page sighted by MyNewsGh.com.

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Bishop Charles Agyinasare was born Charles Yewuraekow Agyin Asare in Achiase in the Eastern Region of Ghana on March 22, 1962. He later moved to Accra in the Greater Accra Region to attend school.

He is a past student of Weija Barracks Primary, Armed Forces Experimental School and Nsawam St. Martins. There, he was a “women-chasing college freak” who got caught up in what he calls “sin, revelry, alcoholism and drug addiction” and “a life of smoking, truancy, chasing girls, using hard drugs, night-clubbing, and stints with various occult associations”.

He was later expelled from St. Martin’s. In 1980, Agyinasare was invited to the Church of Pentecost, where, at the age of 18, he converted to Christianity, was delivered from his immoral life, and joined the Church of Pentecost.

In 2011 Agyinasare did a statutory declaration as to change of name to Charles Agyinasare.

In 1984, Agyinasare was ordained as a missionary by Enoch Agbodzo.

In 1986, he travelled to Nigeria to study crusade planning under the leadership of Benson Idahosa in Benin City, Nigeria. He is currently (2015) the senior pastor of the Perez Dome, which has a 14,000-seater auditorium, regarded as the largest auditorium in Ghana. The former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, on a visit described the place of worship as “one of the Seven Wonders of Ghana.

In 2007 Agyinasare received a national award – the Member of the Order of the Volta (MV) – by former President of the Republic of Ghana John Agyekum Kufuor, for his outstanding achievements in championing African excellence as a religious leader.

In 2015, Agyinasare was awarded The Global Leadership Award from Regent University, the USA by Professor Clifton Clarke in recognition of his efforts in raising leaders across the world and for his impact across the globe.

He has been given declarations from the State of Texas and is an honorary citizen of Texas. Agyinasare was said to be the 20th Most Influential Ghanaian according to a poll in Ghana that was taken in 2015.