Apostle Eric Kwabena Nyamekye, Chairman of the Church of Pentecost (CoP) The Chairman of the Church of Pentecost (CoP), Apostle Eric Kwabena Nyamekye has bemoaned the attitude of some sectors of Ghanaian leaders against the ways of God.
Aps. Nyamekye lamented about the attitude of some Ghanaian pastors who spent precious time preaching about their designer shoes and jackets they bought from western countries to show their wealth describing the act as shameful of religious leaders.
He told the packed church which was also attended by chiefs that it was equally shameful for chiefs to sell one parcel of land to 10 people.
He did not stop there, the revered man of God said it was shameful and despeakable for our political leaders to go to Europe and others to borrow huge sums of money to build roads and social amenities for the citizens only to corrupt it for their personal benefits.
The man of God said sometimes, we blame the politicians alone but many directors who are church leaders are peptrators of corruption.
He lamented that about 70% of Ghanaians are believed to be Christians who believed in Christ yet corruption was on the ascendency which was indicative of the fact that the corrupt society was dominated by Christians and therefore called for a complete change of mindset to free the system of corruption and selfishness.
Aps. Nyamekye expressed his disgust when he addressed hundreds of member of his church, chiefs and politicians at the Asokwa Area assembly in Kumasi during the church’s launch of it’s Environmental Care Campaign programme in Kumasi.
The campaign which was launched in Accra last year bears the slogan for the next five years as "My Environment My Responsibility".
Aps. Nyamekye told the congregation that the church as part of its civic responsibility is in partnership with Zoomlion Ghana Limited to ensure that the environment is kept clean at all times while tree planting is incorporated beginning from the church for a green revolution in Ghana.
He said the Church of Pentecost will partner with government to provide facilities to decongest Ghana’s over populated prisons, build CHPS compounds in selected communities and drill boreholes in another partnership with World Vision also in some selected communities across the country.
He said God created the earth and handed onto man and and demanded care of it from man which must never be overlooked.The Asokwa Municipal Chief Executive, Hon. Akwanuassah Gyimah said government was grateful to […]
