Joe Mettle
Joe Mettle has advised parents to invest in the talent development of their children.
He emphasized the need for children to also focus on their education as all talents are maximised by some form of formal education.
Joe Mettle gave this advice in a virtual meeting with children of the Perbi Cubs Library Services in Accra.
Perbi Cubs Library Services is an evidence-based literacy-promoting endeavour that desires to see an enlightened people of African descent who are a product of an enviable national culture of leisure reading.
The Perbi Cubs aims to nurture well-rounded children using their Lions Inspire Cubs programme and the reading track and activities based on the GES curriculum.
Children in the reading community had their ‘Celebration of Talents’ show in the week where they exhibited their talents of dancing, acting, playing instruments, writing, arts and drawing and singing.
The gospel artiste, in inspiring the children, said education is important; therefore; the children must take it seriously.
He said he obtained a degree in Marketing though he knew he had been called to be a worshiper, adding that “in pursuing all these, young people should always have their eyes fixed on God.”
Joe Mettle encouraged the children to study hard and to also work on their God-given talents.
“I knew that I was called to sing at the age of 10 and since then I did my best to nurture that talent,” he stated.
He, however, revealed that he moved from playing the drums to singing with groups just to sharpen the skills.
Joe Mettle said the discovery of one’s talent could be seen sometimes at an early age, which is usually what the person loves to do and is happy doing.
He said to grow and fully maximize that talent, one must spend time to develop it.
The Co-Founder of Perbi Cubs, Mrs. Anyele Perbi, said on the Lions Inspire Cubs programme, astute men and women whose lives are worth emulating come on the session to inspire the younger ones.
“These men and women are referred to as Lions,” she said.
She said previous Lion Inspire Cubs sessions had hosted some big names like Dr. Trebi Ollenu, a Ghanaian robotics engineer at NASA and Dr. Thomas Mensah, a Ghanaian-American chemical engineer and inventor.
The rest are Dr. Elsie Kaufmann, a Ghanaian academic, biomedical engineer and quiz mistress for the National Science & Maths Quiz and Uncle Ebo Whyte, Ghanaian playwright, author and motivational speaker.
The session ended with an awards ceremony for children who excelled in the ‘Celebration of Talents’ show.