History of Forerunners Generation Internationaland Pastor Swanzy
Pastor Forson Swanzy is the founder of the nonprofit Para-church ministry Forerunners Generation International, with groups in the U.S. and Ghana, West Africa. Pastor Swanzy has realized his God-given gift to effectively communicate the Word of God through writing and speaking. He is anointed of God through the work of the Holy Spirit which is evident and notable through miracles and the undeniable power of God’s working through him. He travels where God leads him as a motivational voice to reach, restore, and release people for God’s glory and to break captives free from bondage.
Pastor Swanzy is an energetic, cutting edge speaker that has a passion for imparting Godly wisdom and direction. He is as a motivational voice God uses to break captives free from bondage and to reach, restore, and release people for God’s glory.
Pastor Swanzy, is founder and President of Forerunners Generation International, a para-church umbrella nonprofitorganization. It is their mission to inspire an awakening in, shaking up, equipping and unification of all denominations of the Body of Christ through our various ministries. At the center of the organization is FGI Prayer Warriors that are powerful, selfless prayer groups that meet weekly in unity with any members of the local body of Christ to intercede for their communities, their nation, the persecuted church and the world. FGI Prayer Warrior groups are active in Ghana West Africa, Gainesville Florida and Houston Texas with growing interest for new groups in other parts of the U.S.
Pastor Swanzy earned his B.A. in International Ministry and Church Planting Missions, holds a Master’s degree in Theology (Th.M.), a Masters in Biblical Psychology and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates of Divinity, Theology and Sacred Theology. Pastor Swanzy is also a Licensed Professional Pastoral Counselor. Pastor Swanzy has served in many capacities and on several advisory Boards; community based Christian organizations and has professional affiliations locally and worldwide. Pastor Swanzy is also a life coach and an author having just completed his first book. Pastor Swanzy has been a host and guest speaker at many revivals, programs and events around the U.S. Swanzy has appeared as a guest on a variety of television and radio shows including; Watchman Broadcasting’s Club 36 and Nite Line, TCT-TV’s Rejoice, WATC-TV’s Atlanta Live and CTN-TV’s Herman and Sharron, Talk Culture Radio, God’s Learning Channel’s Light of the Southwest, CTVN, and more.
Pastor Swanzy shares his story and life of encouragement with everyone. “Life is not over until God says and there is much hope for you! I came from a place of nothing to a place of joy and living my dream with my Lord. I have walked a life of faith from the land of the desert to God’s place; but this does not refer to my movement from Ghana to the U.S., but my fully embracing God’s will in my life.”
Pastor Swanzy is;
- Negative on sin, positive on the Savior;
- Negative on doubt, positive on faith;
- Negative of self-sufficiency, positive on a Christ’s sufficiency;
- Negative on human strength, positive on God’s divine strength;
- Negative on harmful habits, positive on helpful, life-giving habits;
- Negative on a sin-filled life, positive on a Christ-filled life.
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Pastor Swanzy’s Testimony
Born in Ghana, West Africa, Forson “Swanzy” is a servant of the Most High God. Swanzy committed his life to the Lord at the age of nine and began preaching by thirteen. Committed to a lifestyle of prayer, Swanzy and other local youth would travail and pray in intercession for hours on their knees. Ordained and licensed by the age twenty, Swanzy preached the gospel of Jesus Christ while growing in favor with both God and man through his time laboring among the body of believers at Figure of Deliverance Chapel in Tema, Ghana and Emmanuel Apostolic Church International in Accra, Ghana. “God planted in me His ministry to reach the world with the heart-piercing, life-changing Word of God. Jesus Christ said in Matthew 9:37 , “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.” My ministry is to be a voice for all generations says Swanzy.
Like many anointed men and women in the Bible, attempts to kill, steal and destroy in Swanzy’s life started very early. When he was just a few weeks old, Swanzy’s own mother was shot accidentally in the chest in her home by a family member trying to show his new gun. By God’s grace his mother survived; but nursing and nurturing her new son became difficult as her own body needed to be healed. Soon young Swanzy was placed in the care of his grandparents as his young Christian father and mother were compelled to move to an unknown city, accepting a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a better life for their new small family.
Over the next several years the enemy made one attempt after another to take Swanzy’s life. At the age of three, passing village trappers paying to capture young children, took young Swanzy and departed with him far from the tribal village where he lived with his grandparents. He recalls the story of how, at the age of three, he prayed and was immediately released and returned as the trappers realized they had captured a child from a good home, one obviously marked by God.
Another time as a teenager away at school in neighboring Kumasi, Forson Swanzy became seriously ill after eating in the school cafeteria. A decision was made to take him to his father instead of directly to the hospital. After reaching the hospital, Doctors confirmed he had been food-poisoned and only a miracle could have kept him alive. Surprisingly, there was another occasion when Swanzy ingested deadly poison. While being transported in his father’s car from school back to his parent’s home, Swanzy mistakenly administered himself a tablespoon of poisonous weed-killer. This poisonous substance was in a similar bottle as locally prescribed cold/flu medicines and he was recovering from sickness. Rushed to the hospital, again, God showed Himself ever-present in the life of His servant, Forson Swanzy.
At the age of twenty-one Forson Swanzy felt the Lord calling him to the United States with a mission to shake and awaken His church in America. His mission and assignment immediately started with the pursuit of an American Christian education to further his relational understanding of the Word of God. By faith, Swanzy prepared himself to take this step of faith, challenged by Genesis 12:1-2 , as well as Jeremiah 1:6-10 and Luke 4:18-19 . With a one-way ticket to America, Swanzy left behind all that he knew: his church, family, friends, and homeland in Ghana, West Africa. Swanzy departed Ghana and arrived in the United States in 2003 with no money or financial support, but the Lord remained faithful and met all of his needs. Forson was a former Soccer athlete and coach, and hopes to continue sports ministry with youth in the United States.
Philippians 4:13-19 , Ephesians 3:20 , Romans 8:28-39
