By Eric K. Amoh, GNA
Bolgatanga, May 10, GNA – Mothers at the Saint Cyprian’s Anglican Parish in Bolgatanga on Sunday took centre stage to preach the sermon to commemorate Mother’s Day celebrations.
Taking the scriptures from the Acts of Apostles 17:22, and led by a member of the Mothers Union, Dr Joy Akoka, the preacher challenged fathers to assume their fatherly roles as heads of family.
She said as mothers, women in the church had grown to appreciate their roles as augmenting feature to their husbands in leading and shaping the family.
She noted that as Mothers they had bigger roles in growing the church, by ensuring that they cared for their families, as directed by Christ, and not to assume positions of heads.
Dr Akoka indicated that evagelism, family awakening, and assuming roles in the church should not be limited to a few people in the church and called on members of the congregation to accept to take up roles to grow the church and Christ’s kingdom.
She urged Mothers and women in the church to be fond of encouraging their children to attend church service. ” You don’t bath and live for church, while your children are home watching TV”.
She told the congregation to enforce christian doctrines, values, and discipline at home to ensure that the children do not depart from it, adding that entrenched christian upbringing was catalyst for modest christian life and generational blessings.
The Mothers organised simulation exercises for the men in the church on how to stop a baby from crying in the absence of their mothers by backing them.
Apart from preaching the sermon, the Mothers took over song ministrations and drumming, fusing confusion from irregular beats and attracting applause from the congregation.
Local President of the Mothers Union, Mrs Alice Atiem Ayine, expressed gratitude to the Parish Priest, Parochial Church Council (PCC) and members of the congregation for offering Mothers the opportunity to lead.
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