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EXPORTED YOUTH WORKER RETURNS TO CANADA

Ben and Monica Osei, with their children, Andrew and Alice, are prayed for by representatives of the churches that support Osei's youth work. 

After being deported from Canada early in 2004, youth worker Ben Osei returned to Toronto in November. 

Osei, a Ghanaian native who had worked for Toronto's Friendship Community Christian Reformed Church and several neighbouring churches, captured national media attention when Canadian supporters rallied to stop his deportation (see Banner, March 2004). 

Local and national media were on hand again when Osei landed in Canada with his wife, Monica, and their two children. Now granted permanent resident status in Canada, Osei has gone back to working with youths in one of Toronto's most densely populated areas. "Our faith has been on display publicly. A lot of good has come out of this," said Rev. Fred Witteveen, pastor of Friendship Community CRC, of the struggle to bring Osei back to Canada. 

From The Banner, February 2005.  Used by permission.

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