“If A Poor Boy Like me could make it this far, you have no EXCUSE Not to make it in Life” Funny Face tells his story at APPMC

• Posted on September 3, 2012
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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The Actors, Presenters, Professionals and Musicians for Christ (APPMC), a Christian Organisation which aims at masking celebrities with God to win souls for Christ had its second edition of the ‘HOOD2HOOD’ Evangelism yesterday, 2^nd September, 2012 at the Trinity Baptist Church, opposite IPS.

The event which had a spectacular attendance by fans of the celebrities on the bill, Christians and non-Christians alike is one which will go down into memory lanes of the attendees. The recognized funniest dude in the shores of Ghana, Funny face who took turn from Eddie Nartey recounted how life had taken him through deep trenches of which at a point in time he felt his own mum had given up his success in life. As a dud that time, he had been through most street occupations like Truck pushing, polythene bag selling among others. “I use to walk from Dansoman to Adabraka just to take 1 Cedi from my mum” he lamented.

Speaking to the congregation, Funny Face pointed to the severe hunger his family had gone through with even the rats in his house migrating to the next house because there was nothing for them as a family to eat left alone bread crumbs for an ‘unwelcomed visitor’. “I’m not ashamed to tell people I’m from a poor home” Funny Face added. Adding that, people usually take for a joke when he tells his story about the dog his father bought into the home. According to him, the famine in the house drove the dog willingly to where they had no idea where it resided later.

In his own words, as the Double Man, Dalmatian dogs and other foreign dogs bark in thunder voices, a sign of good feeding by their owners, the dog in his (Funny Face) house had a faint bark which hardly scared away any visitor to the home. The dogs bark was as faint as a lead choir singer who had led a choir over night at a crusade with a megaphone and having a sore throat the next day whose voice cannot even be heard by the one standing an arm stretch from her, Funny Face’s description matches to this. Hunger in the home had accounted for this faint bark of the dog.

Using his past life as a measure gauge, Funny Face pointed that, he doesn’t know what hardship the congregation had gone through or is going through but which ever ways, if “A poor boy like me has been able to make it this far, what is your excuse not to make it in life”

Author: Nana Kwesi Coomson (www.233times.net)