’Help govt to fight social vices’

Page 23, JUne 14, 2008
Story: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah
THE Prophetess in charge of the Goka Pentecost Prayer Camp in the Jaman North District of the Brong Ahafo Region, Prophetess Sara Donkor, has urged Christians to assist the government in its quest to fight social vices in the country.
She stated that it was the responsibility of the Church to evangelise to convert people to save them from their sins and also teach them to refrain from the indulgence in social vices.
Prophetess Sara was speaking at a special prayer meeting to pray for the successful conduct of the 2008 elections at Goka.
It was attended by more than 10,000 worshippers from all parts of the country, Togo and La Cote I’voire.
She said Christians were the light of the world and, therefore urged them to recognise their position by living within the tenets of the faith.
“We cannot claim to be Christians while we keep on living in our past misdeeds,” she said, and advised them to study the scripture in order to know the will of God.
Touching on the 2008 general election, Prophetess Sara cautioned politicians to be mindful of their utterances so that their campaigns would be devoid of violence.
She said efforts should be made to maintain the country’s enviable record in the successful conduct of elections and asked the electorate to judge politicians who came to them through their utterances.
Preaching the sermon, the Tema Area Head of the Church of Pentecost, Prophet J.E. Ameyaw, said Ghanaians needed to demonstrate to the outside world that the country’s democratic dispensation had come of age.
He, therefore, asked politicians not to consider their opponents as enemies but rather as colleagues who had a similar agenda for the development of the country.
Prophet Ameyaw urged Christians to remain resolute in times of difficulties in order not to be swept away from their faith by the devil.