Leadership forged, not staged
His path to ministry began the way his path to education did, through hardship transformed by faith. From the age of eleven he paid his own school fees through mason’s labour, gardening, and house help, a discipline he carried through Junior and Senior High School and into a three-year teaching career (2011 to 2013) taken on specifically to fund university.
Encounters that shaped a calling
The reality of God has never been theoretical for Prophet AK Lawrence. It has been experienced. He testifies to encounters with the supernatural from childhood, to the protecting hand described in Psalm 91:11, and to a later experience in which he was shown both heaven and hell, echoing the Apostle Paul’s own testimony of being caught up to the third heaven.
While teaching at Flodan International School he heard the Holy Spirit instruct him to undertake a twenty-one-day fast. On the eighteenth day, by his testimony, he was taken up and seated at a long table before the throne, where the Holy Spirit taught him to understand the Scriptures. Since that encounter he reads the Word not merely with comprehension but with accompanying revelation, a fulfilment of the promise that the Spirit “will guide you into all truth”.
John 16:13 · 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 · Psalm 91:11
Academic and professional background
He read for a Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of Professional Studies, Accra, from 2013 to 2017; a Graduate Diploma in Oil and Gas HSE from the Global Organization of Oil and Gas Professionals, Canada; and a Graduate Diploma in Pastoral Ministry from the Daniel Institute, Ghana. He is further certified in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics by Google.
His route into banking began with Barclays Bank Ghana’s Business Junior Achievers programme in 2011. He went on to complete the bank’s competitive graduate training between April and June 2013, and joined Barclays (now Absa) in June 2014 while studying for his degree, serving as Personal Banker and later Tema Branch Service Executive, where he was recognised as Best Service Executive, Best Performing Staff, and Best Digital Innovator of the Year. He went on to serve as Supply Chain & Delivery Unit Manager at Fairway Company Limited, leading a team of 23 while cutting excess stock by 35% and improving on-time delivery by 55%. Across every role the same pattern holds: rigorous, data-driven stewardship of what he has been given.
Today
He leads Syndei Embassy, teaching daily across TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook, and hosting The Spirit Word, a teaching platform devoted to opening the Scriptures with theological depth and pastoral clarity. One consistent message goes into every room he enters: Christ revealed, and hope restored.