David Wumbei Akonsi (PhD), an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God, Ghana, was born on September 9, 1962 in Gbungbalga near Yendi, in the Northern Region of Ghana. He is married to Rev Mrs. Hannah Veltiwin Akonsi and they are blessed with four boys and one girl- Samuel Wunmalya Akonsi, David Wuntima Akonsi, Nathanael Wunimi Koen Akonsi, Theophilus Wunzoma Akonsi and Theresah Vieltiwuni Akonsi.

David had his primary and secondary education in Gbungbalga and Yendi respectively. After completing secondary form five in 1984 he received the call of God into the ministry. He however enrolled in the then Northern Ghana Bible Institute of Assemblies of God, Ghana in 1986 to pursue pastoral training. He graduated with diploma in Pastoral Studies in 1988. Six years later he enrolled in West Africa Advanced School of Theology, Lomé, Togo and completed with Bachelor of theology degree in 1999. He proceeded to enroll for Master of Arts Christian Education option in the Assemblies of God Graduate School of Theology (AGGST) still in Lomé. Dr. Akonsi completed the MA programme in 2006, and in 2009 he gained admission into a PhD program at the Pan Africa Theological Seminary, also in Lomé. He successfully defended my dissertation on February 8, 2017, and graduated in November, 2017.

Dr. Akonsi and his wife took up their first pastorate in 1989 at Chamba in the Nanumba North District of the Northern Region of Ghana. Their ministry at their first station lasted for three years and four months (April 1989-April 1992). During the period he and his wife started and took care of two other churches, one at Dokpam and the other at Wulensi. They also held crusades in Taali, Kpalsoguni, Gungumpa and Silimboma, all in the Nanumba North District.

In 1992 they were transferred to Yendi where they pastored for 14 years. While in Yendi they started seven churches in seven communities and trained twenty lay workers who started churches in various communities. Dr. Akonsi served as a sectional secretary and sectional treasurer for the erstwhile Yendi-Saboba Section from 1992 to 1994. He also served as District Pastor for Yendi district for eight years and as Regional Secretary for 9 years.

In March 2006 Dr. Akonsi and family were again transferred from Yendi to Tamale Central Assemblies of God church; and they have since pastored the church. In 2007 he was elected into the office of the Regional Superintendent of the erstwhile Northern Regional Council of Assemblies of God now North-West Regional Council, a position he held till date.