The Gatekeeper of Kumasi

Every Sunday morning at 5:45, Emmanuel Osei unlocks the iron gates of Grace Presbyterian Church in Kumasi, Ghana. He has done this for thirty-one years. He is not the pastor. He is not an elder. He is the gatekeeper. Emmanuel lost his wife to malaria in 1998. He buried his youngest son three years later. When you ask him how he still arrives before dawn with that wide, unhurried smile, he will tell you plainly: "I open the gate because I know whose house this is."…