Accra, March 03, GNA—The Tema Ministers Organization (TMO) has sworn in new executives to steer the affairs of the Association with a call on Ghanaians to seek and promote a national agenda for development.
The Association also rallied churches in Tema to support the call by government to make cleanliness part of the life of every citizen as the nation strives to achieve a clean and healthy environment.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the sidelines of the Service at the auditorium of the Adonai International Ministries, Tema, the President of the TMO, Bishop Richard Ahiagbedey, said one of the challenges Ghana faced was how their representatives did not understand the need to work together, which affected progress.
“As a result, we must have a-twenty-year national agenda, and let’s move from ‘the partisan thing’ because it hasn’t helped us; …we must forget about Jack trying to do it all, it doesn’t work anywhere.” he said.
Bishop Ahiagbedey observed that Ghanaians were one people, but partisan politics sometimes made it look as though they were enemies. “But if we all come together to pursue the same agenda, that would enhance our nation in the areas of education, health, infrastructure, agriculture and industry, and that would make us a better people.”
The Bishop said, for Ghanaians to be able to build the country, they should respect authority, whilst those in authority respected the views of those they were ruling, “Because we are in it together; governance is not for only the Executive, Judiciary or the Legislature, so we should seek each other’s interest.”
The Rt. Rev. Thomas Forson of the Methodist Church, in a sermon to admonish the new leaders before the induction, hinted that integrity was one of the many qualities that ensured good leadership in every endeavor of life.
In linking the sermon to the nation, the Cleric said, “A lot of people in Ghana don’t have integrity, but good leaders must practice and value integrity, because people don’t follow leaders who lack integrity,”
Rt. Rev. Forson said Integrity involved practicing what one preached, being consistent and dependable, and living in such a way that others would trust you.
The Presiding Member (PM) of the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA), Mr. Joseph Koto, representing the Mayor of Tema, Mr. Yohane Ashitey Amarh, asked church leaders to assist government by urging their congregants to take the “Operation clean your frontage” seriously in order to help government achieve her aim of making Accra the Cleanest city in West Africa.
TMO is an organization of pastors in Tema with the vision of bringing pastors together to fellowship, foster unity and help each other to fulfill God’s call and purpose for their lives, and to build the kingdom of God in Tema.
The newly inducted members of the executives would serve for a four year term.
They are: Rt. Rev. Dr. Richard Ahiagbedey, Presiding Bishop, Adonai International Ministries (President), Rev. Kaku Mieza, General Overseer, Christian Redemption Ministry (Vice-President), Rev. Vincent Tagoe, Senior Minister, Dynamic Word Ministries (General Secretary), and Rev. Daniel Ayer, Assistant Pastor, Christ Pentecostal Ministry International (Assistant General Secretary).
Others are; Rev. Ebenezer Ayeh, Minister-in-Charge, Priesthood Worship Centre, Assemblies of God (Financial Secretary), Rev. Mrs. Ivy Tagoe, Senior Minister, Oak Royal Chapel International (Treasurer), Apostle Dr. Francis Owusu, Senior Minister, Anointing Chapel International (Welfare Chairperson), and Bishop Frank Adjei Danso, International Missions Director, Victory Bible Church (Member).
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