Vice President charges christians

The Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has charged Christians and preachers of the gospel to help instill the fear of God in the youth and rekindle the legacy of ethical and moral education in the country.

He also made a passionate appeal to the churches to make their auditoriums places of giving to the needy and not receiving only.

The Vice President congratulated the Methodist Church in particular, for the various roles it has played in nurturing the lives of students through education.

Mr Amissah-Arthur was speaking at the 9th Biennial and 47th Conference of the Methodist Church held at the Gaddiel Acqaah Cathedral of the church in Tarkwa in the Western Region.

The conference was on the theme “Go and make disciples of all nations:

Rekindling the Methodist Evangelical Heritage for Church Growth”.

The Vice President indicated that he supported the idea of government giving back mission schools to the churches but pointed out that such initiatives take time to be concluded.

Rt. Rev Titus Awotwe Pratt, the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, Ghana called on politicians to educate their followers to constructively engage agents of other parties in socio-economic and political discourses regardless of differences in opinions.

“Politicians should encourage their supporters to refrain from any act that could lead to dispute, acrimony, agitation or violence of any sort”, he added.

Rev Pratt also called on the government to cooperate with all other political parties in its bid to govern and develop the country while appealing to the media to make available their facilities for the promotion of love, harmony and unity among the citizens.

He disclosed that a recent survey conducted by the Ghana Evangelism Committee of the church revealed that there were a lot of towns and villages in the country that had no churches, particularly in the three northern regions, Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and Volta regions.

“We have therefore adopted a workable strategy dubbed “Vision 2020” aimed at planting at least 300 new churches by the year 2020?.

“The attention would be on the unreached areas” adding that some of its members would be trained on one-on-one witnessing strategies to achieve the goal.

He indicated that the church had come out with a comprehensive health development agenda to guide the church in its efforts in healing the sick and promoting health in communities.

He therefore called on the General Director for Social Services of the Church to lead the process to develop a similar agenda for Environment, Agriculture, Rural Development, Gender and other family issues.