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TRUE TO
HIS OFT-DECLARED dream, Apostle Dr. M. K. Ntumy,
till August 31, 2008, Chairman of The Church of
Pentecost, became the first Chief Executive Officer
of the Church to step down from that high office in
the Church to become a National Head.
His
predecessors in office, Pastor James McKeown,
founder and first Chairman had retired, Apostle F.
S. Safo, second Chairman, died in office, while
Prophet M. K. Yeboah, the third Chairman, had also
left office into retirement.
A
service marking the momentous event took place at
the Albert-Schweitzer-Ring 4, 2204 chapel of the
Church, in Hamburg, Germany, a country of about 14
million people, many of whom are waiting to be
touched with the transforming power of the gospel.
Keenly
observed by the gathering of National Heads in
Europe, the pastorate and the elated congregation,
Apostle Dr. S. K. Baidoo, International Missions
Director of the Church, severally declared his
confusion at how to describe his former boss who
would now report on activities of the Church in
Germany to his office. In effect, Apostle Dr. Baidoo
constitutionally becomes the supervisor of his
former boss and immediate-past Chairman if this
sprawling Church.
Speaking
from Acts 11: 15-18; Ruth 4:18-22 and Isaiah 43, on
the topic 'None can oppose God,' Apostle Dr Baidoo
said God is writing a major history about redemption
to which believers' lives are added when they
surrender their lives to Christ.
The IMD
noted, however, that whereas one could not choose
one's parents or birth place, one can choose to
belong to God's redemption plan by accepting Christ
as Saviour.
He added
that though, like Abraham, one's life may encounter
some setbacks, these do not hinder God's master plan
for the individual believer.
He asked
members of the Church in Germany to remove wrong
perceptions about people, rededicate their lives,
time and money to God and team up behind their new
National Head, whom he described as 'a true man of
God and a father,' to reach the whole of Germany and
Europe for Christ.
In his
remark. Apostle Dr. Ntumy declared that God's story
had become the history of his family wherever they
had served, through their trying days in Liberia and
his ten years as Chairman of the Church.
He
prayed that he would not be received by the Church
as former Chairman, but as one who had been sent by
the Executive Council to take the church in Germany
to the heights it must reach.
A word
of prophecy noted that a mighty wind was about to
remove evil barriers for the water of life to flow
freely to save many in Europe.
Victor C. T. Ofinam reporting from Hamburg
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