By Emmanuel Nyatsikor
Ho, Nov. 21 GNA – Reverend Emmanuel Akorli, Ho Presbytery Chairperson of the Global Evangelical Church has stated that Christians have what it takes to liberate themselves from the many problems they were going through and change their situations.
He noted that if they did things God’s way and stopped relying on their own knowledge, strengths, and understandings they could change their situations for the better.
“If as Christians we live and do things God’s way, we will surely receive a positive answer from God,” he intimated.
Rev. Akorli was speaking at the opening of a three-day Southern Territory Pastors’ Conference of Compassion International Ghana (CIGH) at the Volta Serene Hotel in Ho.
It is on the theme “20 years of service in child and youth transformation: sustaining our gains through effective partnership.”
CIG is a child development Non-Governmental Organization that delivers children from poverty in Jesus’ name collaborating with its partner churches.
The southern territory is made up of eight clusters of the various churches from the Volta, Oti, Greater Accra, and Central regions.
Rev. Akorli who based his exhortation on the theme “flee to the mountain” based on Genesis chapter 19 verse 15 to 20 urged Christians to sanitize their lives with the words of God to experience the changes they needed in their lives.
He advised them to be “harsh” on themselves so as not to be compromised with the things of the world adding “if we continue looking down at our problems and not up to God, we will feel dizzy by the problems and fall.”
Rev. Akorli who is also an executive member of the Volta Regional Ghana Pentecostal Council of Churches commended CIGH for its untiring efforts in helping children living in abject poverty to become self-reliant to reduce poverty in the Ghanaian society.
Rev. Papa Twum Barima Senior Manager of Partnership in charge of the Southern Sector stated that CIGH needed the churches as much as they also needed CIGH to do their work effectively and efficiently.
He entreated the Pastors to monitor and ensure that funds allocated to their Child and Youth Development Centres were used for their intended use and always avail themselves for training.
The Senior Manager of Partnership asked them to organise effective governance controls at their various Child and Youth Development Centres so as to avert fraudulent practices.
Mrs. Florence Sena Amponsah, Senior Manager of Programme Support of CIGH said “the objective of CIGH is that every child should be thriving and become a game changer in his or her family and society at large.”
She therefore discouraged the use of food as a bait to attract children to the programme and called on the Pastor’s to liaise with their Child and Youth Development Workers and other stakeholders to design programmes and policies that would bring out the latent talents in the children entrusted unto their care.
GNA