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Management and Staff of The Church of Pentecost Headquarters ended this year’s activities on Wednesday, December 22, 2021, with an award and retirement ceremony which saw Elder Ebenezer Anim-Yirenkyi, a Principal Accounts Officer at the Pension Office, and Elder Daniel Asumadu Sakyi, also a Principal Accounts Officer at Asokwa Area Office in Kumasi being crowned as the joint recipients of the Chairman’s Best Workers Awards for the year. 

The Chairman of the church, Apostle Eric Nyamekye, presented the prizes to the duo amid cheers from the staff and other attendees of the annual ceremony which took place at the Sophia McKeown Temple at La, Accra. 

As part of the service, four staff of the church who have served the church for varied years were retired from active service. Also, some staff who have served for 10, 15, 20 and 25 years were given long-service awards. 

Giving his Christmas and end-of-year address, Apostle Eric Nyamekye wished management and staff well in the Yuletide and prayed for a prosperous new year. 

Revealing the essence of Christmas, Apostle Nyamekye said that Christmas brings glory to God just like the angels sang in Luke 2:14. Because of this, he said, the devil is doing all he can to take people’s mind off  Christ and make the season a mere holiday, a period of feasting and merrymaking, as the European Commission has attempted and still pushing hard to expunge the word ‘Christmas’ and simply keep the period as a holiday. 

Notwithstanding all these deliberate attempts to downplay the importance of Christmas, the Chairman called on Christians not to gloss over the fact that Christmas is a season God is glorified by the celebration of the birth of His Son Jesus Christ which enforces the fact that Jesus is not a founder of a religion but the Saviour of the world. 

“It is, therefore, proper that Christians gather in this season if they can, to celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Saviour of the world, worship at His feet, lift Him up as the king of all gods and tell of His love to the world. This brings so much honour to our God,” he said. 

In an exhortation, the International Missions Director, Apostle Emmanuel Agyemang Bekoe, spoke on the topic: “Golden Shields” based on 1 Kings 14:27; 2 Chronicles 12:10. 

He explained that King Rehoboam replaced the lost golden shields his father Solomon made with bronze shields after King Shishak of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem. 

Deducing some lessons from what King Rehoboam did, Apostle Agyemang Bekoe noted that by replacing the golden shields with bronze, King Rehoboam replaced conviction with convenience, control with compromise, value with vanity, and glory with a glow.  

According to him, conviction is influenced by passion and devotion. “Passion and devotion drive the vision of the organisation,” he said.  

On control and compromise, he stated that when standards are compromised, control is lost. He said in Rehoboam’s time, there was no control because he replaced the golden shields with bronze shields.  

He also said by replacing value with vanity, King Rehoboam traded worth for worthless, saying, “In an organisation, we need to value what we have and jealously guard them.”  

Present at the service were Apostle Alexander Nana Yaw Kumi-Larbi (General Secretary), Apostle Lawrence Out Nyarko (Finance and Administration Director), Prophet David Kankam Beditor (Ashaiman Area Head and Chairman of Greater Accra Coordinating Committee), Ministry Directors, Staff, among others. 

PENTECOST NEWS. 

Four Staff of The Church of Pentecost Headquarters have retired from active service after working for the church and God for various years. 

The retirement service which climaxed the year’s activities of the Headquarters of the church took place at the Sophia McKeown Temple (SMT) at La in Accra on Wednesday, December 22, 2021. 

The four are Mr. Bismark Yaw Adu-Amankwah (Senior Executive Assistant at Asamankese Area Office) who served for eight years; Mr. Isaac Yamoah (Assistant Chief Driver at the Headquarters) who served for 23 years; Mr. Francis Yaw Bredwa Agyei (Head Cleaner at the Headquarters) who also served for 27 years, and Mr. Frederick Alloysious Ayisah Dasi (Accounts Officer at Tema Area Office) who served for 37 years. 

Joined by their spouses, family members and loved ones, the retirees thanked God for seeing them through various stages of life while working at the Head Office. 

The Chairman of the church, Apostle Eric Nyamekye, congratulated them for working hard for church and God.  

“We give glory to God for how far He has kept you and your families. God bless you for the investment you have made which has brought The Church of Pentecost this far,” he said. 

Present at the event were the General Secretary, Apostle Alexander Nana Yaw Kumi-Larbi; the International Missions Director (IMD), Apostle Emmanuel Agyemang Bekoe; the Finance and Administration Director (FAD), Apostle Lawrence Otu Nyarko, and the Chairman of the Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Committee of the church, Prophet David Kankam Beditor, the Staff, among others. 

PENTECOST NEWS. 

Mr. Confidence Fiagadzi, a Police Officer and member of The Church of Pentecost, has been adjudged the 2021 Integrity Personality of the Year. The prestigious award, second of its kind, was organised by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), the Local Chapter of Transparency International, during the United Nations’ Anti-Corruption Day held at the Alisa Hotel in Accra on December 9, 2021. 

Mr. Confidence Fiagadzi, a Detective Lance Corporal at the Kaneshie Police Service CID, also fellowships at the Ebenezer Assembly of The Church of Pentecost in Darkuman District.

As an officer of the law, Confidence is said to have shown integrity, transparency and a great sense of professionalism in the discharge of his duties. In an era where bribery and corruption is the order of the day, Mr. Confidence Fiagadzi, has held on to his morals and values, not jeopardizing his principles and beliefs, and has helped fight corruption in the country in the best possible way he can.

His nomination for Integrity Personality was based on two instances; first, for an alleged case involving an official of the State Transport Corporation (STC) and second for a GHS 20,000.00 extortion case involving five police officers. In both cases, he rejected amounts of GHS 4,000.00 and GHS 2,500.00 offered as bribery for his silence.

Out of the forty nominations submitted, Mr. Fiagadzi made it to the round of fifteen and successfully sailed through to the final stage. After series of voting and several processes, he was awarded Integrity Personality of the Year, 2021.  Mr. Fiagadzi’s courage, honesty and integrity are indeed exemplary. His level of professionalism in the discharge of his duties truly reflects the characteristics of a man of integrity.

Report by Ebenezer Assembly Literature Committee.

The Dansoman Area Ministers and Wives of The Church of Pentecost has held a four-day retreat at Bunso Cocoa College from Monday, 14^th to Friday, 17^th December, 2021.

The speakers included the host, Prophet Ebenezer Kofi Appiah (Dansoman Area Head), Apostle Samuel Osei Asante (Koforidua Area Head and Executive Council Member), Apostle Daniel Yeboah Nsaful (Effiduase Area Head), and Mrs Janet Appiah.

Topics treated were “Mobilizing the Squad,” “Ministry of Intercession,” “The Pastor as the Manager,” “The Power of the Gospel,” and “When there is no king.”

Mr Chris Afful, a dietitian at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, handled the topic: “Your health and lifestyle.”

On Friday afternoon, the group went for an excursion to the forest of the Cocoa College where they climbed the canopy erected in the trees, inspected the many varieties of cocoa pods and had a wonderful time.

The retreat was climaxed with intensive prayers for the forthcoming Christmas Convention.

Also in attendance were the Area Deacon and his wife, Area Women’s Ministry Leader and her assistant, Area Estate Chairman among others.  

Report by Pastor Isaac Ennin Quaicoe (Area Media Chairman).