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Emanuel Abu Kissi (born 24 December 1938) is a Ghanaian medical doctor, founder of a medical clinic, and leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He is one of only a few black Africans to have served as an area seventy in the church.〔(reference in ''Black and Mormon'' )〕 He was the official head of the LDS Church in Ghana during its "freeze" in 1989–90, and has worked extensively to increase interfaith relationships in Ghana. ==Biography== Kissi was born in Abomosu, Ghana. He studied medicine in England. In 1979, while completing training in surgery in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, he joined the LDS Church. After his return to Ghana, Kissi and his wife Elizabeth, who is a nurse, established a medical clinic in Accra which they named Deseret Hospital. The hospital at times has been aided by groups of LDS Church members from the United States. He has also been involved with trying to coordinate humanitarian medical care by other doctors in Ghana.〔(Doctors for Rebecca )〕 Kissi was among those featured in the film ''Lives of Service'' about Latter-day Saints of African descent.〔(106406-01 - LIVES OF SERVICE )〕 Initially after his return to Ghana, Kissi was a professor at Legon University medical school and was working as a general surgeon at Korle Bu Hospital.〔Marvin K. Gardner, ("Ghanaian Branch President Visits Utah" ), ''Ensign'', September 1981, pp. 74–75.〕 The first Latter-day Saint he met in Ghana was Priscilla Sampson-Davis who was reading the Doctrine and Covenants while waiting for treatment at the hospital.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emmanuel A. Kissi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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