Kwabena Nsiah grew up in a Christian household where church was a regular and positive part of family life. But it wasn’t until he was in Year 11 of high school that faith became something more personal—and more confronting.
At the time, though he was co-leading a Christian group at school, Kwabena admits he didn’t actually know what grace was, and he wasn’t yet owning his faith or taking it seriously. That began to change during a Bible study on Ephesians 2.
“We were looking at what it is to actually have a relationship with God—that it’s by grace. It’s not by anything that you do that saves you,” he shares.
Kwabena describes the moment as transformative. Struggling with sin and feeling the weight of condemnation, he was struck by the freeing truth of the gospel. From that point, his relationship with God shifted—no longer based on trying to be good enough, but on trusting in the finished work of Christ.
Passion for workplace evangelism
That clarity followed him into university, where he got involved in Christian Union at Macquarie University. There, a ministry apprentice named Will He invested in him, teaching him how to read the Bible and encouraging him to disciple others.
“He got me reading one-to-one with other people,” Kwabena explains, “and encouraged me to seek out opportunities to serve.”
Though his love for ministry was growing, Kwabena chose to enter the workforce after graduating in 2017. He began a career as a financial auditor in 2018, where he saw the workplace as a meaningful mission field.
“Many people won’t have an actual practicing Christian as a contact in their life,” he says. “I saw the real key opportunity that it was to build relationships with people and to have conversations about Jesus.”
But a 2019 MTS Mission-Minded conference planted new seeds. Kwabena began praying a prayer from Matthew 9 about the harvest being plentiful, but the labourers being few. It became a regular prayer—“God, please raise up people to be sent out into the harvest field, and if that’s me, let me know.” Kwabena now calls that a “dangerous prayer” that was eventually answered.
Testing and training in ministry
In 2022, he began a two-year MTS apprenticeship at Multicultural Bible Ministry (MBM) in Rooty Hill under the supervision of Rob Abboud. The role saw him serving across multiple areas: leading the welcoming team, running lunchtime Christian groups in local schools, team-leading in kids ministry, and doing platform ministry at evening services.
A major focus was learning to lead teams—a shift, he says, “from leading yourself to leading others.” That also meant confronting his own leadership weaknesses.
“The biggest blockage to teams functioning well and ministries thriving really felt like the biggest blockage was me,” he admits. One area of growth was his aversion to conflict, which he had to work through for the sake of healthy team dynamics.
Trusting in God’s timing
By the end of his apprenticeship, Kwabena was preparing to go to Bible college, but plans changed when his then-fiancé (and now wife) decided to begin an MTS apprenticeship herself. Wanting to attend college together, he chose to wait for a couple of years while she trained.
That decision led him to his current role at Reach Australia, combining both his ministry and professional experience. “Part of my role is in the finance space,” Kwabena explains. “God hasn’t let any of the skills or the experience that he’d gifted me go to waste.”
He also now joins church consultations across the country: “We get to help churches move towards health, and I get to rub shoulders with some of the ministers and meet church members.”
It’s a role that keeps Kwabena close to vocational ministry while he waits for the next season.