Accra, Aug. 20, GNA -
The Right Rev, Dr Setorwu Kwadzo Ofori, the Moderator of the Global Evangelical
Church (GEC), has urged the government to resource and revamp all the
Agricultural Training Colleges to save them from imminent collapse.
Rev Dr Ofori said
agriculture was the mainstay of Ghana’s economy and lauded the government’s
Planting for Food and Job policy, which would enable the country to become
self-sufficient, and regretted the current poor state of the Colleges of
Agriculture in the country.
The policy, he
noted, must be sustained and every attempt made to ensure that Agriculture is
made attractive to the younger generations in order to make it sustainable.
The Moderator was
speaking at the Commissioning Service of some Thirty-nine Ministers of the
gospel at the Victory Chapel of the GEC, Ho Fiave, in the Volta Regional capital
on the theme: “The Christian Leader”.
He said it was sad
that all the six Agricultural Colleges under the Ministry of Food and
Agriculture (MOFA) in the country had virtually collapsed or were operating far
below their production capacities.
He, therefore,
called on government to extend a lifeline of two million Dollars to each of the
six Agric institutions in order to turn their current deplorable state around.
The Moderator said
the GEC had plans to venture into agriculture in the near future, and urged the
newly commissioned ministers, especially those in the hinter land, to together
with their congregants, venture into agriculture.
This, he said, would
enable them to support themselves and feed others.
Rev Dr Ofori urged
the newly commissioned ministers to make a difference in the world through
preaching the unadulterated word of God.
He urged them to
guard against materialism and focus on the Great Commission.
Rev Angela Hellen
Adjabeng, one of the newly commissioned pastors, on behalf of her colleague
ministers, acknowledged God for not only calling them into the pastoral
ministry, but also equipping them to do his work.
She thanked the
leadership of the church, the Global Theological Seminary, where they were trained,
their families, friends and well-wishers, for their prayers and support.
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