Christians urged to sacrifice for others

Cape Coast, Aug 16, GNA - A Member of the Council of State, Dr Ato Essuman, has urged Christians to demonstrate the comprehension of their faith through willingness to sacrifice for others.

Dr Essuman said there had been so much talk about Christian faith and it was time for Christians to act more and talk less. "That is the only way the gospel message would be listened to by others," he stressed.

Dr Essuman, who is also a past lay President of the Methodist Church, was speaking at a church service to inaugurate and dedicate the Wesley Cathedral Office Complex and hall in Cape Coast at the weekend.

He also unveiled the plaque of the edifice.

Referring to the life of Rev Joseph Dunwell and the early missionaries who came to the Gold Coast, he said they obeyed God's call to evangelise and came to Africa, an unknown world at the peril of their lives.

Admonishing the congregation, he said no person was useless in the sight of God and that God did not look at those who had money and those who did not have to work in his vineyard. Rather, God seeks for those with willing hearts to do his work.

The Bishop of the Cape Coast Diocese of the Church, the Rt Rev Nicholas K. Asane, urged the congregation to engage in income generating projects to support the church's activities in the diocese.

The Bishop said through such projects the frequency of appeals for funds, which had become the practice almost every Sunday, would minimise for a congenial atmosphere to be created for the people of God to worship freely.

The Very Rev Ebenezer K. Abaka-Wilson, Superintendent Minister of the Cape Coast Circuit of the Methodist Church, said the accomplishment of the project which started at the time the church had nothing in its coffers, signified that no matter how great an undertaking was, togetherness or unity and faith in God would see to its successful completion.

The Superintendent Minister was grateful to President John Evans Atta Mills, Dr Essuman, Nana Brew Butler and the Bishop of the Diocese for their contributions and support for the project.