GOV’T ACKNOWLEDGES DEV’T EFFORTS OF CHURCHES
GOV’T ACKNOWLEDGES DEV’T EFFORTS OF CHURCHES May 05, 2011
BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM
ISD-BOLGATANGA MUNICIPAL
The Upper East regional minister, Hon. Mark Owen Woyongo has acknowledged that the long-standing partnership between government and the various churches has impacted significantly in Ghana’s development especially in the education and health sectors.
The regional minister gave the acknowledgement in an address read for him by his deputy, Hon. Lucy Awuni to open the 50th Annual Synod of the Northern Ghana Diocese of the Methodist church being held at the Ebenezer Methodist church in Bolgatanga in the Upper East region. He singled out the Methodist church for commendation for her efforts in educational development citing the Wesley Girls Senior High school and Mfantsipim College as excellent institutions established by the church.
In the Upper East region for instance, the Methodist Church is drilling four boreholes for four communities in the Talensi-Nabdam district at the cost of 40,000 Ghana Cedis while a six-unit classroom block is also being constructed for a senior high school at Sakoti.
Mr. Woyongo told the Synod that the regional coordinating council recently launched a zero-tolerance for litre campaign in the region and urged the Methodist leadership and other religious bodies to help rid the city and other areas of filth adding that environmental cleanliness must be everybody’s business.
The regional minister asked the synod to pray for peace not only in Ghana but in the sub-region as a whole especially Cote d’Voire noting that the absence of peace in any place draws back the clock of progress while the negative effects of conflicts spill over to neighbouring countries.
The Bishop of the Northern Ghana Diocese of the Methodist, Rt. Rev. Bishop E. Maclord Afriyie in his report said the 2011 annual synod is very important in the life of the church because it coincides with the golden jubilee of autonomy from the British Methodist Conference since 1961. He said over the past 50 years, the Methodist church has been preaching the gospel as God’s redemption message for His sons and daughters.
Focusing his attention on the theme for this year’s synod – “Connexionality: Working together as a team, the place of commitment”, Bishop Afriyie said the theme drives home the need for all Methodist societies to work with oneness in Christ. It further reminds the church that “we are God’s only agency on earth and in the world for contending for the faith of the gospel about Jesus”.
The Bishop said taking the church as a team, all team members and other team executives must respect, obey and faithfully help to implement programmes for the benefit of the whole team. He stressed that the church must be able to work together as common people to achieve uncommon results for the propagation of God’s work.
The 2011 annual synod is the third Bishop Afriyie is addressing within his six years of reign as Bishop in the Northern Ghana Diocese of the Methodist church, Ghana.
Participants at the synod include delegates from all circuits in the three regions of the north, representatives from sister religious bodies, some regional heads of department and the lay faithful of the Methodist church.
BY PETER ATOGEWE WEDAM
ISD-BOLGATANGA MUNICIPAL
The Upper East regional minister, Hon. Mark Owen Woyongo has acknowledged that the long-standing partnership between government and the various churches has impacted significantly in Ghana’s development especially in the education and health sectors.
The regional minister gave the acknowledgement in an address read for him by his deputy, Hon. Lucy Awuni to open the 50th Annual Synod of the Northern Ghana Diocese of the Methodist church being held at the Ebenezer Methodist church in Bolgatanga in the Upper East region. He singled out the Methodist church for commendation for her efforts in educational development citing the Wesley Girls Senior High school and Mfantsipim College as excellent institutions established by the church.
In the Upper East region for instance, the Methodist Church is drilling four boreholes for four communities in the Talensi-Nabdam district at the cost of 40,000 Ghana Cedis while a six-unit classroom block is also being constructed for a senior high school at Sakoti.
Mr. Woyongo told the Synod that the regional coordinating council recently launched a zero-tolerance for litre campaign in the region and urged the Methodist leadership and other religious bodies to help rid the city and other areas of filth adding that environmental cleanliness must be everybody’s business.
The regional minister asked the synod to pray for peace not only in Ghana but in the sub-region as a whole especially Cote d’Voire noting that the absence of peace in any place draws back the clock of progress while the negative effects of conflicts spill over to neighbouring countries.
The Bishop of the Northern Ghana Diocese of the Methodist, Rt. Rev. Bishop E. Maclord Afriyie in his report said the 2011 annual synod is very important in the life of the church because it coincides with the golden jubilee of autonomy from the British Methodist Conference since 1961. He said over the past 50 years, the Methodist church has been preaching the gospel as God’s redemption message for His sons and daughters.
Focusing his attention on the theme for this year’s synod – “Connexionality: Working together as a team, the place of commitment”, Bishop Afriyie said the theme drives home the need for all Methodist societies to work with oneness in Christ. It further reminds the church that “we are God’s only agency on earth and in the world for contending for the faith of the gospel about Jesus”.
The Bishop said taking the church as a team, all team members and other team executives must respect, obey and faithfully help to implement programmes for the benefit of the whole team. He stressed that the church must be able to work together as common people to achieve uncommon results for the propagation of God’s work.
The 2011 annual synod is the third Bishop Afriyie is addressing within his six years of reign as Bishop in the Northern Ghana Diocese of the Methodist church, Ghana.
Participants at the synod include delegates from all circuits in the three regions of the north, representatives from sister religious bodies, some regional heads of department and the lay faithful of the Methodist church.
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