Gospel singer and minister Jerusha Adopley has recounted the harrowing night when armed robbers attacked her home and shot her husband in the chest.
Against all odds, he lived to tell the story.
Speaking on Bullet TV’s Morning Target on Tuesday, 18 February 2025, Minister Adopley shared the traumatic ordeal that unfolded when unknown gunmen stormed their residence.
“One of the toughest times in my life ever was when we were attacked by armed robbers and my husband was shot. Six bullets in the chest and he lived,” she narrated to Seli Acolatse Apaloo who co-hosts the show with Nana Kweku Aduah.
Her husband, a minister of the gospel at Assemblies of God, was attempting to help someone when the attackers confronted them. “They said, ‘We came to kill you’,” she recounted.
The robbers shot and dragged him to another part of the house, where they beat him mercilessly. “When he became unconscious, I heard one of them say, ‘He’s dead, make we go, he no dey breathe.’ That kind of English, I still remember.”
At the time, Minister Adopley and her husband were waiting to conceive a child, making the attack even more devastating.
As one of the robbers attempted to stab her with a breadknife, she fought back. “I turned and I got a wood and I hit his head so the knife fell and he left.”
When the assailants finally left, she rushed to her husband. To her amazement, he found the strength to rise despite his injuries. “Some strength entered into him and he stood up with the gunshot. He lifted his hands and shouted: ‘I’m shot, I’m not dead, I’ll preach on Sunday’,” she recalled. The attack had taken place on a Thursday night into Friday dawn.
With blood oozing from his chest, police arrived and rushed him to Tema General Hospital.
However, due to an ongoing doctors’ strike, finding medical assistance proved difficult. “I was walking around Tema General Hospital alone at 2 AM looking for help. It has been one of the toughest times in my life.”
Eventually, doctors examined him and were astounded by what they found. “The doctor looked at the x-ray and asked him, ‘What work do you do?’ He replied, ‘I’m a pastor at Assemblies of God.’ Then the doctor said, ‘You’re one of the true men of God I’ve ever seen. If you’re not a true man of God, today couldn’t have happened. The bullets didn’t go beyond your flesh.’”
Incredibly, surgery was not required. Instead, the bullets were pressed out of his body by hand. “At that point, five bullets fell out. I used those bullets for a chain to wear.” A week later, another bullet surfaced on its own – the sixth.
The miraculous incident earned him the title: The Pastor Whose Body Rejected Bullets.
Minister Adopley, deeply moved by the experience, turned it into music. “So out of that, I wrote a song. Everything that happened to me has a song.”
Born into a family of musicians, she attributes much of her inspiration to her parents and husband. She grew up in a family of singers. Both parents sing and all her siblings either sing or play a musical instrument. “I play the violin. My children also love music, especially my third child.”
Her husband’s unwavering faith and miraculous survival continue to inspire many in the congregation and beyond.
