APOSTOLIC CHURCH LAUNCHES 75TH ANNIVERSARY (SEPT 22, PAGE 21)

THE 75th anniversary of the Apostolic Church of Ghana has been formally launched.
The colourful ceremony took place at the Lartey Adotey Memorial Temple at Adabraka, Accra, which houses one of the biggest congregations of the church.
In attendance were all the apostles, senior and junior pastors, elders, deacons, deaconesses and members from the various administrative areas of the church in the country.
Activities lined up for the year-long celebrations which would involve all branches in Ghana as well as its missions abroad, include radio talk shows, dinner, clean-up exercises, donations to organisations and disadvantage persons.
A church service at the Independence Square in Accra would climax the celebrations in September, next year.
Within the same period, other spiritual activities geared towards the acceleration of the growth of the church would be organised.
Launching the programme on the theme: “Great is Thy faithfulness”, the President of the church, Apostle John Annan Adotey traced the history of the church which takes its roots from the revivals that occurred between 1904 and 1905 in Wales, United Kingdom
He said the revivals were later in 1935 extended to Ghana by missionaries from Penygroes, a small town in the United Kingdom that has now become the cradle of the church worldwide.
Apostle Adotey who is also the Chairman of the Ghana Pentecostal Council, said from a humble beginning at Asamankese where the first church was planted in 1935 and despite the struggles and breakaways, the church had witnessed both spiritual and physical growth.
He said the church currently had branches throughout the country with other overseas missions in the United States, Canada, Cote d’ Ivoire, Italy and The Netherlands among other nations.
Apostle Adotey said the breakaways rather gave birth to many other Pentecostal churches in the country.
He used the opportunity to preach to the gathering, stressing the need for the members to abide by the tenets of the church and lead upright lives to win more souls for Christ.