STAMP OUT INDISCIPLINE FROM SOCIETY (PAGE 20)

THE PRESIDING Bishop of the Joint Anglican Diocese Council (JADC), Rt Rev. Daniel S.A. Allotey, has called on Christians to help stamp out all forms of indiscipline and crime from the society.
 He said while indiscipline on the part of some drivers had resulted in carnage on the roads in recent times, love for money and material things had made people to engage in all sorts of crimes.
The Rt Rev. Allotey who is also the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Cape Coast, made the call when he addressed the eighth national biennial conference of the Association of Anglican Church Clergy Wives at the Bunso Cocoa College over the weekend.
The four-day conference under the theme: “Arise and shine for the light has come” was attended by the wives of the reverend ministers of the Anglican Church.
According to Rt Rev. Allotey, human lives were being destroyed on the roads and highways through carelessness on the part of some drivers due to indiscipline and that it was time for Christians to help address the issue.
Rt Rev. Allotey also expressed his dissatisfaction about the behaviour of self-styled pastors and prophets who took advantage of the vulnerability of worshippers to exploit them for luxurious life, and asked Christians to be wary of such supposed men of God.
An adviser on Christian ethics, who is also the wife of the retired Methodist Bishop of the Sunyani Diocese, Mrs Christiana Omane Acheamfuor, took the gathering through various aspects that would advance the welfare of women, particularly in the church.
She advised the participants to come out with initiatives that would benefit the needy.
Mrs Acheamfuor also urged them to be ambassadors for reconciliation to help bring peace in homes by helping to resolve marital problems which had led to many divorces not only within the church, but the society as a whole.
With regard to curbing motor accidents, Mrs Acheamfuor called for psychological training for drivers to enable them be in the right frame of mind behind the steering wheel.
For his part, the Anglican Bishop of the Koforidua Diocese, Rt Rev. F.B. Quashie appealed to the women to be role models for others, adding that it was only in that respect that society would be disciplined.
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, expressed regret that some women had shirked their responsibility as mothers and embraced certain lifestyles such as penchant for ostentation that had made their children to go wayward.
He appealed to the church to help address the issue.  
The regional minister said the government was doing its best to address issues facing women and children.
He, therefore, appealed to the participants to support the government to stamp out all forms of negative tendencies such as occultism and hooliganism from the society.
In her welcoming address, the president of the Eastern Regional Chapter of the association, Mrs Mary Quashie said the participants were to examine the weaknesses and strength of the association with the view of formulating strategies to move it forward.