Axim (WR,) Aug. 26, GNA – Some Youth Workers within the Axim Area Youth Ministry of the Church of Pentecost have been equipped with leadership skills to enable them to play their role more effectively in the church and communities around them.
The Leadership training programme dubbed; “School of Youth Ministry”, brought together District Youth Leaders, Assistants, Secretaries and Local Leaders.
The training sought to equip the youth workers with knowledge in grounding the youth firmly in Christ across all levels through personal devotions, small group mentorship, evangelism and spiritual development programmes.
The newly appointed Axim Area Youth Ministry Leader of The Church of Pentecost, Pastor George Amankwah, who facilitated the session, urged the youth to use social media positively.
He said the global technological advancement had brought in its wake very quick and effective ways of communicating diverse issues and the youth must use it to spread the word of God rather than vices.
Pastor Amankwah bemoaned the situation where many of the youth were now using social media negatively and plunging them into moral and social decadence.
“… We have realized that of late, most of the youth are using social media wrongly, we want to encourage and advise that we the Christian youth take advantage, we need to sell Christ in that, don’t use your phone, don’t use your Facebook account and Whatsapp account to do those things that are contrary to the word of God”, he said.
He advised them to use social media to engage in positive business ventures that would fetch them money.
The youth workers were also encouraged to organize programmes that would meet the personal, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and psychological needs of their youth members.
They were taken through the Youth Ministry’s visions; Discipleship Mandate, Unleashing Mandate and Holistic Development Mandate.
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