Dansoman Methodist marks Silver Jubilee

The Dansoman Circuit of the Methodist Church, Ghana, over the weekend in Accra marked its silver jubilee under the theme: ‘25 Years of God’s Grace and Providence: Witnessing to Christ in the Dansoman Circuit’.

Various colourful and fun-fair activities ranging from food bazaar, choral festival and cultural week festival were lined up to mark the celebration.

Congregations and ecclesiastics from all seven societies of the circuit, namely the Bethel Methodist, Grace Methodist, Mount Olivet Methodist, Ebenezer Methodist, Bread of Life Methodist and Maranatha Methodist Church participated in the two days event in various ways, with the aim of uplifting the spiritual values of Jesus Christ.

The various activities for the silver jubilee were staged separately at Mount Olivet, which is the current circuit head for the Dansoman Circuit of the Methodist Church Ghana, beginning with the food bazaar at about 11:00am on Saturday.

Superintendent Minister of Mount Olivet Methodist Church, Rt Rev John A.Y. Adubah, addressing the gathering at the commencement of the celebration on Saturday, thanked the Almighty God for seeing the circuit through its 25-year journey despite some financial challenges it had had to endure.

He commended the various societies for actively engaging themselves over the years in the uplifting of the circuit and prayed that they remained focused with the works of their creator.

Rt Rev Adubah seized the opportunity to encourage the congregations to take pride in their Ghanaian culture and not to allow themselves to give in to the so-called western civilisation.

He disclosed that as part of measures to teach the young ones within the various societies to value their cultural values and abide by them at all times, the Dansoman Circuit had for the past three years been organising its cultural week festival.

During the festival, he told DAILY GUIDE that all members of the societies are made to engage themselves in activities like story-telling by the fire side, child-naming, wearing of traditional costumes, among others – all aimed at upholding the culture of the nation.