Posts in category: Pentecost Workers Guild

Sixteen people, comprising 11 students and five facilitators, have graduated from the Pentecost Literacy School in the Takoradi Area.

The Pentecost Literacy Project (PLP), which The Church of Pentecost initiated in pursuance of Vision 2023, now Vision 2028, was to teach adults how to read and write in their native languages and to aid them to read the Bible.

After a two-week intensive training by the Literacy and Evangelism Ghana (LE-GH) for facilitators across the nation at the Pentecost Convention Centre (PCC), Gomoa Fetteh in October and November 2021, the Takoradi Area participants (Pastor Ernest Perbi-Asare, Elders Stephen Coffie, Christopher Yaw Okyere, George Bondzie-Hanson and Deaconess Cecilia Aidoo), began a pilot phase in the Takoradi Area to test the feasibility of the project. Consequently, 20 volunteers (Mfantse – 10 and English – 10) were selected from the various districts in the Area and enrolled in November 2021.

Having undergone over two years training, 11 learners, who have successfully passed their final examinations, graduated during a special ceremony on August 9, 2024, at West Ridge Assembly in Tanokrom District.

The graduands were joined by five facilitators who also passed all the courses and met all the requirements for their training.

In his address, the Literacy and Evangelism Ghana (LE-GH) representative, Pastor R. M. Adrakpanya (retired) was thankful to God, the Chairman of the church, Apostle Eric Nyamekye, and the Executive Council for the timely vision to help people who cannot read or write in their local dialects.

He also commended the Area Head, Apostle Sylvester Arhin, and his team as well as the Takoradi Area Pentecost Literacy Project Coordinating team for the hard work and dedication in making the vision possible.

Pastor Eric Kweku Ansah who represented the Chairman of the National Discipleship and Leadership Development Committee (NDLDC), Apostle Dr Samuel Kojo Gakpetor, indicated that the Pentecost Literacy School will not only benefit the unschooled constituents but even the educated who are unable to read in their mother tongues.

Delivering a speech on behalf of the Takoradi Area Head, Apostle Sylvester Arhin, the New Takoradi District Minister, Pastor Solomon Nii A. Djani, who doubles as an Area Executive member, admonished ministers as well as officers to embrace the PLS initiative and ensure its effective implementation in their districts and local assemblies.

On behalf of the graduating students and facilitators, Elder Stephen Coffie expressed gratitude to Apostle Joseph Kwame Assabil (retired) whose tenure the PLP pilot programme started in the Area and his successors, Apostles Semenya Yao Dogbe and Sylvester Arhin, for their unflinching support and commitment for a successful implementation of the project in Takoradi Area.

Other dignitaries at the graduation ceremony were Pastor Alex Kieninger Anum and his wife, Dora (Area Secretary), Pastor Ernest Perbi-Asare (Area Pentecost Literacy Project Coordinator), Pastor Stephen Mawunyo Akorsu (Area Discipleship and Leadership Development Coordinator), and other ministers and wives in the Area.

Report by Pastor Ernest Perbi-Asare.

The Kaneshie Area Health Workers Guild, in collaboration with the Pentecost Men’s Ministry (PEMEM) in the Area, has sensitised members on the need to eliminate malaria in Ghana.

As part of the programme, dedicated health workers in the Area were given training on Sunday, April 21, 2024, at the Kaneshie District English Assembly Auditorium on the Ministry of Health (MoH)’s Malaria Elimination Programme. The health workers, in turn, carried out sensitisation programme during PEMEM meeting day on Thursday, April 25, 2024, at the districts and local levels, to mark World Malaria Day.

The training programme had Madam Muniratu Venu, a public health nurse from the Ghana Health Service’s National Malaria Elimination Programme equipping the health workers with knowledge on the rationale for the Malaria Elimination Programme, NMESP Development, Ghana’s goal for Malaria Elimination (2024-2028) objectives and strategic interventions, expected outcomes and the role of stakeholders in Malaria Elimination Programme.

Engaging the media after the event, Dr. Nana Yaw Peprah, the Deputy Programme Manager, National Malaria Elimination Programme, who is also an elder of The Church of Pentecost, revealed that the malaria parasite in Ghana has significantly reduced from 50% in the last 20 years to 8% in a current survey which was done in 2022, while mortality has reduced from 333 in 2019 to 146 in 2023.

He explained that, on the back of these improvements, stakeholders agreed in 2023 that it was time for them to move from malaria control to malaria elimination; the reason for which the National Malaria Elimination Programme has been introduced in 2024.

Pastor Lawyer Daniel Essuman Koomson, the Kaneshie Area Coordinator for the Workers Guild, on his part, indicated that the reason for which the programme was held is that the church has a major role to play in the fight against Malaria.

In order to play this role, Pastor Lawyer Koomson explained that the sensitisation of members on World Malaria Day and after, will make the members conscious of the causes, signs and symptoms of malaria, and activities to undertake to contribute to eliminate malaria in Ghana.

He expressed his gratitude to the members of the Health Workers Guild for their dedication, stating that their effort shows their usefulness in the ‘Possessing the Nations’ agenda of the church.

Report by Kaneshie Area Media

The Church of Pentecost Health Personnel Network (COPHPNET) has organised a day’s national workshop to sensitise its members on ensuring quality healthcare delivery and service in Ghana.

The event which took place on Saturday, April 24, 2021, at zonal levels across the 71 church administrative Areas in the 16 regions of Ghana, was on the theme, “Customer Care in the Health Service Delivery: The Role of the Christian Health Worker.”

In an interview, Elder Dr. Yao Yeboah, National Coordinator of COPHNET, who is also a lecturer at the Pentecost University and member of the Christian Health Service Association of Ghana, touched on the two main types of customers being external and internal customers.

Elder Dr. Yeboah noted that a knowledge about the customer (being internal or external) would help the health worker to meet the expectations of their clients.

He said that with the vision of the guild which is “Christ-Like Character and Christ-Like Service,” members are expected to transform and make an impact on the ailing society. “They are to be light where there is darkness and salt where the society is tasteless,” he said, adding, “In effect, members are to help transform the society to what God graciously divined it to be.”

Elder Dr. Yao Yeboah further indicated that, besides organising workshops to help members to improve upon customer care, COPHNET will also lead the award of credits for their Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for the year 2021.

He concluded by acknowledging various personalities who contributed immensely to the success of the workshop, including the Chairman of the church, Apostle Eric Nyamekye; the General Secretary, Apostle Alexander Nana Yaw Kumi-Larbi; the National Executives of COPHNet, Area Heads, the Pastorate, Area Coordinators of the Pentecost Workers Guild (PEWG), among others.

The Church of Pentecost Health Personnel Network (COPHPNET) was inaugurated among other professional guilds such as Business, Built Environment, Education, Music & Entertainment, Finance & Banking; and Media, at the Pentecost Convention Centre (PCC) in June 2019, as part of the Vision 2023 implementation strategies.

Report by Gina Akua Padi.