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During the recently concluded Côte d’Ivoire Annual Conference, it was reported that the church had remained closed from May through October 2025 after heavy rains severely compromised the building’s structure. This prolonged closure led a considerable number of members to temporarily join neighboring congregations, raising urgent concerns about both the physical condition of the building and the continuity of fellowship within the community. 

The school was built around 1935 among other schools owned by the African Methodist Episcopal Church, but has now been taken over by the government and other individuals. Historical records show that the Anne Heath Academy now survives with a total population of about sixty-five (65) students, not to even talk of the lack of its facilities.

The history of African Methodism demonstrates that Christian faith has consistently been understood as inseparable from social responsibility. The distinctive contribution of the Black Church has therefore not been a retreat from social realities, but the capacity to articulate theological hope while engaging the concrete structures of injustice. Its prophetic witness has operated at the intersection of worship, public ethics, and collective resistance. The contemporary context presents challenges that differ in form but not in moral seriousness.

What good is a commercial kitchen that never feeds hungry families? What good is a fellowship hall that rarely welcomes lonely people? What good are classrooms that sit dark while children need tutoring, parents need support, seniors need companionship, and recovering people need a safe place to gather? Every unused room represents not merely vacant space but unrealized ministry.