Rev. Adu-Gyamfi addressing the participants
EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT of the Ghana Baptist Convention (GBC), Reverend Dr Ernest Adu-Gyamfi, has urged Members of Parliament (MPs) to build bi-partisan consensus on key national issues to help build the nation.
He appealed also to the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, to ensure that key issues like education, health and the problem of rent advance in the country were settled once and for all.
Rev Adu-Gyamfi was addressing the 54th Annual Session of the GBC at Ejura in the Ashanti Region on Wednesday.
The annual session brought together delegates from the various Baptist member churches as well as Senior pastors, members of the denominational board and sector heads. It is under the theme: “Christian Discipline for Holistic Development”.
He said a national policy was there to guide the progress of the nation irrespective of the political party in power and therefore has nothing to do with politics.
Rev Adu-Gyamfi said the argument of a three or four years and a free Senior High School was toying with the lives of the youth in the country and further asked “where else in the world do people pay two to five years rent advance apart from Ghana?”
He said over the last few days, there had been a warning about possible terror attacks in Ghana on Social Media and this, he appealed to the security agencies to take seriously despite the relative peace the country is enjoying to ensure the safety of the citizenry.
The Executive President touching on the GBC said his presidency believed that the key mandate of the Church was evangelism and mission and that the convention had about 2,500 churches across the country.
He said the provision of a holistic gospel preaching was one of the major things he believed in which goes hand in hand with the needs of the people.
Rev Yaw Opuni-Frimpong, General Secretary of the Ghana Christian Council called for unity in the Christendom and appealed to pastors to instill the best culture and practices of Christianity in the coming generation.
He said Ghanaians were preaching about peace and unity only during elections and that this must be replicated through traditional authorities, in churches and also in-faiths to strengthen national cohesion.
Rev Opuni-Frimpong said some churches were discouraging their members from marrying from other churches which, to him, is a sharp division in the Christian religion.
Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ejura Sekyere-Odumasi, Alhaji Mohammed Salisu Bamba, said the Municipal Assembly recognised the massive infrastructure and investment made by GBC in the Municipality.
He said the Municipality was the food basket of the country and urged GBC to take advantage of marketing activities in the area.
The MCE pleaded with GBC to construct a health facility in the Municipality and called for discipline among all faiths in the country.
BY Melvin Tarlue