The 75th Annual National Convention of the Women’s Fellowship of the Apostolic Church – Ghana has ended in Koforidua over the weekend.

The 75th Annual National Convention of the Women’s Fellowship of the Apostolic Church – Ghana has ended in Koforidua over the weekend.

The convention, which brought together more than 10,000 women of the church drawn from the southern sector of the country, was the largest number ever recoded in the history of the women’s fellowship gatherings.

Addressing the convention at a thanksgiving service the Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Baba Jamal, commended the church for its contribution to the socio-economic development of the country.

He appealed to the women to resist the temptation of focusing attention on purely outward ceremonial observance and merry-making but rather to improve upon their knowledge and skills in wherever they find themselves so as to become responsible future leaders of the church in particular and the nation in general.

He said in the past parents sent their children to church to be taught the knowledge and fear of the Lord and also collaborated with teachers in the training and disciplining their children.

But of late that co-operation was lacking resulting in parents assaulting teachers who tried to discipline children thus leading to breakdown of morality and discipline.

He urged the church to ensure that the ethical values of the country were promoted and should be fair in its criticisms of government.

Mr Jamal said the church should be bold to point out the infractions of all governments and not to do selective criticism so as not to loose its respect and credibility.

He appealed to the church to pray ceaselessly for God to intervene in curbing all acts of immorality that was creping into the moral fabric of the society.

“We are all witnesses in recent times of the spate of lawlessness, drug trafficking, corruption, armed robbery, ritual murders, cyber fraud popularly known as “Sakawa” and occultism,” he said.

The National Secretary of the fellowship, Mrs Mary Nana Tagoe, told the GNA that the fellowship had contributed to the socio-economic development of the country.

She said it had set up vocational schools and other training centres to give skills training to girls and elderly women. 
 

 
Source: GNA

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Although the girl’s social workers had appeared to have given a green light for her baptism, officials in the fostering department said her carer had failed in her duty to preserve the girl’s religion and should have used her influence to prevent the baptism from going ahead.

They said the girl should stay away from church for six months, and later struck the carer off the fostering register. The carer, who has over ten years experience looking after more than 80 children, is now challenging the local authority’s decision.

Her case is being backed by The Christian Institute’s legal defence fund. Neither the carer nor the girl can be named for legal reasons.

The carer is an Anglican who attends a local evangelical church. She said: “I did initially try to discourage her. I offered her alternatives. I offered to find places for her to practise her own religion. I offered to take her to friends or family. But she said to me from the word go, ‘I am interested [in church] and I want to come.’ She sort of burst in.”

The foster carer is devastated at being de-registered. She said: “This is my life. It is not just a job for me. It is a vocation. I love what I do. It is also my entire income. I am a single carer, so that is all I have to live on.”

The Christian Institute’s Mike Judge said: “All people should be free to change or modify their religious beliefs. That surely must be a core human right in any free society. I cannot imagine that an atheist foster carer would be struck off if a Christian child in her care stopped believing in God. This is the sort of double standard which Christians are facing in modern Britain.”