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Child development needs the home, school and
Church - Bishop
Nkoranza (B/A), July 1, Ghanadot/GNA – Right Reverend
Sampson Yamoah, Bishop elect for the Wenchi Methodist
Diocese, has said that effective childhood development must
come from training at the home, the school and the Church.
He, therefore, called on parents, teachers and religious
leaders to collaborate and make the home, school and Church,
ideal places towards the proper upbringing of children.
Right Reverend Yamoah said this when he opened the 2008
Biennial Diocesan Youth and Students Assembly at the
Nkoranza Methodist Church recently.
He stressed the need for youth to be self disciplined and
give utmost respect to their parents, teachers as well as
Church leaders.
Right Rev. Yamoah also charged the youth to be law abiding
in order for them to receive great blessings from God and
grow as responsible future leaders as well as allowed Jesus
Christ to rule their lives and eschewed negative social
vices.
Referring to the theme for the Assembly dubbed: “Raising
Young Leaders of Integrity for Sustainable Development of
The Church”, he advised the youth to take their education
serious in order that they would reach high marks and
acquire gainful employments in future.
Right Rev. Yamoah urged the youth of the Church to learn
vocations and or engaged in agricultural activities so as
not to become liabilities in their communities.
“The youth should ensure effective management of their time
and resources and guard against extravagance in order to
acquire wealth and establish better assets and command
respect as responsible persons when they become adults,” he
said.
Professor Emmanuel Otchere, Dean of the Faculty of
Agriculture at the Wenchi Campus of the Methodist University
of Ghana, called on parents to lead lives worthy of
emulation by their children in order for them to become
useful citizens in future.
Professor Otchere stressed the need for parents to invest
much of their resources in the education of their children,
since education is the only legacy they could bequeathed to
them.
Mr Joseph Nketiah, also a lecturer at the Faculty, urged
graduates of the Senior High Schools to seek admission into
the college to acquire the necessary education that would
enable them to develop agricultural technologies and to
become outstanding farmers in their communities.
Mr Nketiah advised the youth to take the farming as an
occupation and not as a hobby and referred to Mr Thomas
Ahimah from Offuman, who was the first person to be adjudged
as the National Best Farmer in Ghana and said he has
acquired international recognition all because of farming.
In a welcoming address the Nkoranza Circuit Youth Organiser,
Mr. Albert Mensah thanked the Church for organising Assembly
at Nkoranza and called on the participants to propagate the
good news to their colleagues in their variuos communities.
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