Martha and B.B. met while at college in the mid 1930s. When he graduated from college in 1936 he went to Yale to pursue a degree at the Yale Divinity School. It was here that he heard Dr. Harley talk about the mission work that he and his wife Winifred had started in 1926 in rural Liberia. B.B. felt called to join the Harleys and help the work to grow and expand. He went back home to ask Martha to marry him and join him in this new endeavor. They married in July 1939 and sailed immediately on a freight ship to West Africa.

When they arrived in Liberia, there was a need for them to serve at BWI in Kakata. They served there for two years before they could come to Ganta. The daughter, Bonnie, was born during their assignment at Booker Washington Institute and was seven months old when they arrived in Ganta in 1941.

The Cofields were very welcomed at Ganta by the Harleys. B.B. was the first evangelist assigned to Ganta, however, his efforts were not limited to his pastoral duties. According to Mrs. Harley, ìhe began at once in 1941 to shoulder much of the mechanical routine of the growing mission station. He had a positive genius for carrying on several projects at the same time Whatever he might be doing he did it with a smile. Although his first aim was to do pastoral work, the day-by-day activity and maintenance almost swallowed him up for awhile. He built houses, a school, a hospital and the church. B.B. served in several capacities including: evangelist, District Superintendent, treasurer and postmaster for the mission, construction project manager, and Liberia Annual Conference treasurer.

Mrs. Cofield was busy with the school where she served as a teacher and became principal after Miss Black.She was loved by the students.

When the Cofields left Liberia in 1976 after 37 years of service, they were formally honored by the Liberian Government.

Rev. Charles Britt was the first fulltime evangelist assigned to serve at Ganta. He built on the efforts initiated by Rev. Cofield. With one of the students as an interpreter, he started a vigorous effort to move the church beyond the confines of the mission station and into the surrounding villages. He conducted Christian Education at the School. Pastors and evangelists were trained during the school vacations using the school facilities. The marriage of Rev. Britt and another missionary, whom he had met during pre-missionary training, was the first major wedding of the mission. Bishop King came to Ganta to conduct the ceremonies at the school auditorium which doubled as a chapel until the church was built. Blanche had been assigned in Monrovia prior to the wedding.

Rev. Paul Sundar and his family later followed. They were transferred to join the pastors training program in Gbarnga.

The early Liberian pastors to join the effort after their training in Ganta and Gbarnga were Rev Thomas Voker, Rev. Nyaplay, and Rev. Zuaglay who later became District Superintendants. The Seminary in Gbarnga in collaboration with Cuttington College started graduating pastors for the Methodists and other collaborating denominations. One of these graduates who served in Ganta was Rev. Jacob Kartwe.

Dr. Nya K. Taryor was the first Ganta student to obtain postgraduate training in Theology. He served with the Liberia Annual Conference and was on the faculty of the Gbarnga School of Theology.

The Department of Evangelism at Ganta is now in the very capable hands of one of the former students of Ganta School, Rev. James Z. Labala, District Superintendent of Ganta District, Liberia Annual Conference. Under his leadership the church has continued to grow under the very challenging circumstances in postwar Liberia. The feeling one gets now when you visit the Ganta church is that it is no longer the mission church. It is now the community church and is fully embraced by the people.