APOSTOLIC CHURCH WOMEN HOLD CONVENTION AT KOFORIDUA (PAGE 20)

THE Southern Sector National Women’s Convention of the Apostolic Church of Ghana has ended at Koforidua.
The gathering, one of the largest to be assembled by the church in recent times, drew female members of the church in its administrative areas within the Greater Accra, Central, Volta, Western and Eastern regions.
The event also coincided with the elevation of two pastors, Abraham Ofori Kuragu and Daniel Agbeteye to Apostles and the ordination of three others, namely Kofi Addison, Samuel Kwao Padi and Emmanuel Akonor as Pastors.
Addressing the convention on the theme: “Jesus the Son of God”, the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Muhamed Ahmed Baba Jamal called on the country’s religious leaders, especially Christians to pray for God’s intercession to uproot all forms of negative tendencies, which he stated, had engulfed the Ghanaian society.
He said of late, negative social vices such as fornication, incest, rape, armed robbery, occultism, ritual murders, contract killings, drug abuse, corruption, cyberfraud (sakawa) and unnecessary show of spiritual powers, had been associated with a number of people, including Christians.
Mr Baba Jamal said since such bad traits were having negative effects on society, religious leaders must lead a crusade to eradicate them.
He stated that the time to do that was now, and therefore, appealed to religious leaders to pray for God’s intercession in that respect.
“We are all witnessing the upsurge of criminality and immorality in the society in the form of incest, rape, sakawa, drug abuse, ritual murder, contract killings and you as religious leaders must call for God’s intercession to eradicate them,” the deputy regional minister stated.
He praised the Apostolic Church of Ghana for undertaking a school project at Mile 5 in Adweso near Koforidua.
Mr Baba Jamal advised the female members of the church to help nurture their children into good citizens.
In his sermon based on John Chapter 1, the President of the Church, Apostle John Annan Adotey urged Christians to be witnesses of Jesus Christ by following His footsteps.
Apostle Adotey stated that it was only in that direction that members of the church could also preserve the church’s sanctity to win more souls for Christ.
Earlier, the Leader of the Women’s Movement of the church, Deaconess Naana Tagoe told the gathering that the movement aimed at mobilising its members for their spiritual and physical well-being.
He added that as women, it was their responsibility to help move society forward in a Godly manner.