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Nine gallant officers of the Asylum Down Assembly in the Adabraka District of The Church of Pentecost retired from active service in a glorious ceremony recently. 

Officiating the service on behalf of the La Area Head, Apostle Dr. Dieudonne Nuekpe, the Abelenkpe District Minister, Pastor Paul Amoah, commended the officers whose years of service span 20 to 43 years. He spoke on the theme “Repositioning the Older Generation to Have Maximum Impact on the Church During Retirement.” 

Two former ministers of the Adabraka District, Pastor Moses Kenneth Abakah (Rtd.) and Pastor Joseph Ackah, joined the current District Minister, Pastor Emmanuel Osei Agyapong, and the rest of the congregation to honour the gallant soldiers. 

The retirees, Elders Joseph Abandoh, Alexander Billyham Sarpong, Richard Ohenekumah, Deaconess Comfort Takyi-Amankwah, Beatrice Akowah, Juliet Tetteh, Janet Tetteh, Agnes Sarpong and Cecelia Agbovi, on their part, expressed gratitude to God for seeing them through decades of dedicated service and to the leadership as well as members of the Church for the honour done them. 

Report by Adabraka District Media Team

Apostle Dr. Nicholas Appiah Missah, a retired minister of The Church of Pentecost has charged members and officers of the Church to live upright and godly lives in their walk with the Lord.

Apostle Dr. Appiah Missah said this when he ministered to participants of the New Tafo Zone at the M. K. Yeboah Memorial Temple, Krofrom in Kumasi, during the recently-held New Tafo Area Ministers and Officers’ Retreat (Apostolisation).

Speaking on the topic: “The Local Church Upholding the Value of Godliness,” Apostle Dr. Appiah Missah stressed that God expects believers to be godly in all their endeavours at all times because godliness is a requirement of the grace they have received in Christ Jesus (Titus 2:11-13).

“Godliness is not just going to church or being an officer, but living as delight to the Lord,” he explained while urging the participants to aspire to be like Jesus Christ, Ananias (Acts 22:12), Apostle Paul, Cornelius in godliness.

According to him, Christians should not struggle to live godly lives since they have been equipped for such virtue through Christ Jesus (2 Peter 1:3).

He mentioned knowledge of God, transformed life (Colossians 2:14-15; 1:20), among others, as sources of godliness, with good temper, continuous reliance on God’s word, and teaching of good doctrines as marks of godliness. 

Reading from 1 Timothy 6:6; 4:7-8, Apostle Dr. Nicholas Appiah Missah (rtd) identified the value of godliness and encouraged the participants to strive to finish the Christian race in a godly manner (Hebrews 12:2).

The 2023 New Tafo Area Ministers and Officers’ Retreat (Apostolisation), which kick-started on Tuesday, February 21, 2023, under the auspices of the Area Head, Prophet Samuel Tetteh Doku, was on the theme: “Repositioning the Local Church For Maximum Impact in the Nations” (Colossians 2:6-7; 1 Thessalonians 2:19-20). 

It was held at three zones in the Area (New Tafo, Sepe-Buokrom and Kenyasi Zones) with Apostle Dr. Nicholas Appiah Missah (Rtd.) and Pastor David Dorsu (Tumu Area Head) as guest speakers.

Report by Emmanuel Nana Nsiah

Pastor Joseph Kow Techie, a retired minister of The Church of Pentecost, was laid to rest on Saturday, March 18, 2023, at Moree near Cape Coast.

He was 89 years old. Born on January 12, 1934, he joined the Church of Christ (Spiritual Movement) and was ordained a priest between 1956 and 1967 and served in Cape Coast, Tema, Afienya, Terchire and Akim Oda.

He later resigned from the priesthood and joined The Church of Pentecost as a member. He was baptised by the late Pastor L. A. Nyarko at Cape Coast.

While at Cape Coast, he was identified as a true servant of God by Apostle George Alphonse Wood (late) and was transferred to preside over the church in Jukwa Breman. In 1970, Apostle Wood, in consultation with the then Executive Council called Joseph Kow Techie into the full-time ministry of The Church of Pentecost.

The following were the stations he served: Abura Dunkwa (1970 to 1979), Enchi (1979 to 1986), Konongo (1986 to 1990), and finally, Ajumako Besease (1990 to 1994), serving for 24 years. After retirement, he stayed at Edumfa and later relocated to his hometown in Moree Junction, near Cape Coast.

Preaching the sermon at the funeral under the topic, “Confidence in the face of death,” Apostle David Nii Addo Pappoe, the Twifo Praso Area Head of The Church of Pentecost, admonished Christians to face death confidently like Stephen, the first Apostle who was killed while preaching and praying for his killers.

Reading from 2 Corinthians 5:1-11, he identified four mysteries from the epistle that Paul wrote to the church. According to Apostle Nii Addo Pappoe, believers can be confident in the face of death when they know and understand that they are living in a tent.

“Tents provide temporary shelter. They don’t provide secured protection in times of storms. Life in a tent is uncertain. Tents are uncomfortable in the midst of storms such as sicknesses. God will take away the tent and replace it with a building,” he said.

He added that Christians can be confident in the face of death when they know and understand what happens when they die. He further said that believers can be confident in the face of death when they anticipate eternal life.

“We shall be like Jesus when He appears in glory. Mortality will end; eternal life is guaranteed. We shall be rewarded appropriately. We shall see God and that place is better than what we can imagine,” he explained.

The Twifo Praso Area Head finally said that believers can be confident in the face of death when they are assured of their personal salvation, saying, “God has given us eternal life in His Son Jesus Christ. He who has the Son has eternal life.”

In a tribute by the General Council of the Church, Pastor Joseph Kow Techie (rtd) was described as a man with a deep prayer life who believed that prayer had the power to change any situation. “He was a man full of ‘chords and notes’ who interspersed his sermons with spiritually inspired songs. He was also a man who loved God’s Church to a fault,” it said.

Report by Pastor Ebenezer Ayivi Okoampah (Cape Coast Area Media Ministry)

The Offinso Area of The Church of Pentecost, under the headship of Apostle Samuel Edzii Davidson, has embarked on a float to launch the Environmental Care Campaign dubbed “Offinsoman Sanitation Awareness Week” and Plastic Waste Buy Back Day.

The event, which took place on Monday, March 13, 2023, saw over thousand people, including Local Council of Churches, traditional leaders, Muslim leaders and members, politicians, and students holding placards with inscription of sanitation messages. 

The float began at the Asamankama Station, through to the Chief’s palace to the Dentin Methodist School Park.

Launching the event at a community durbar, Apostle Samuel Edzii Davidson, who chaired the occasion, outlined the activities scheduled for the week that would see to the successful execution of the exercise to promote good sanitation in the Offinso Community.

He noted that awareness on sanitation in the Offinso Municipal would be intensified as residents would be sensitised and educated on proper sanitary practices for them to see the need to live filth-free lives as citizens of the country.

He added that buy back of plastic waste day is being implemented to turn trash into cash and empower the commitment of residents towards gathering plastic waste to prevent littering in the community.

Apostle Samuel Edzii Davidson stressed that law enforcement agencies will be involved to supervise the various communities and if possible, arrest offenders to serve as deterrent to others.

The Offinso Municipal Education Director, Mrs. Gladys Kwakye, highlighted that keeping the environment clean brings the most of one’s living situation and as a result, improves the quality of life. According to her, the involvement of students in the Environmental Care Campaign activities provides a platform for training and shapes them on the need to uphold good sanitation in their surroundings.

She further enlightened that when children eventually grow up to be parents, they can raise their children with the hygiene practices instilled in them, thereby creating a healthy environment devoid of sicknesses and psychological disorders.

Mrs. Gladys Kwakye promised to oversee to the continuity of the Environmental Care Campaign programme in the Offinso Community to help promote healthy living.

On his part, Mr. Eugene Amo Asamoah, business developer and communications manager for Kumasi Compost and Recycling Plant (K-CAP) stressed the need for the communal folks to be involved in the Plastic Waste Buy Back Day. 

He expounded that gathering of plastic waste for money reduces environmental pollution and saves Ghana’s water bodies and rich minerals in the soil.

Report by Emmanuel Nana Nsiah & Dennis Owusu

The Kwashieman Official Town District Minister, Pastor Emmanuel Dzemekey Agbeko, has charged members of the Church and Ghanaians, in general, to ensure that all wastes they generate are properly managed.

He made this statement at a Stakeholders’ Meeting organised as part of the 2023 Environmental Care Campaign on Sunday, March 12, 2023 at Kwashieman Official Town Assembly (KOTA).

He mentioned that, through the act of obedience by the disciples, the 12 baskets of leftover food were not made to go waste; neither were they left to rot and pollute the environment.

By gathering the leftovers, the disciples had the opportunity to preserve or re-use the pieces for other beneficial purposes.

Pastor Agbeko applied the lessons from these passages to the way the environment is being managed.

He said that God dwells among them and He does not like waste so we must not be surrounded with it – whether food leftovers, plastics or any other form of garbage. Out of the leftover substances around us, we can find opportunities to create new things to solve some problems of society and also earn income.

He advised participants to ensure that their homes are always clean and extend this habit of cleanliness everywhere they are.

The Presiding Member for the Ablekuma North Municipal Assembly, Hon. Edmund Nii Lomo, in a brief remark at the event, pledged the full support of the Municipal Assembly towards the success of the Environmental Care Campaign.

The traditional leaders also promised to inform the entire community to turn up in their numbers to join the cleanup exercise.

Present at the meeting were the Presiding Member of Ablekuma North Municipal Assembly, Hon. Edmund Nii Lomo, the Queen Mother of Kwashieman, Naa Larteley Ayewuhu, and her elders and some other opinion leaders in the community.

Report by Elder Emmanuel Adofo Marih