The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa has acknowledged that, the recent Ministers’ Conference held on campus has brought a lot of blessings to the University. He said this when he was delivering his welcome address at the 2010 Annual Ministers’ Conference of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana held at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, the Premier University of Science and Technology and one of the finest in Africa.
He advised the conference participants to take stock of activities in the past year and then contrive for the ensuing year. He said, “It is my prayer that at the end of your Conference, you would have renewed your strength for the challenges ahead and would have also advanced pragmatic strategies as to how we can all contribute individually and collectively to reposition the Church for growth.” He assured them that, KNUST is ready to offer them support in anyway as far as the conference was concerned but admonished them to be extra cautious of security since the campus was a bit quiet.
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rt. Rev. Dr. Yaw Frimpong-Manso was of the view that, in repositioning the Church for Growth, they must also prioritise their focus and activities. He added that despite the achievement of the Church in National and Social matters, thus in education, health, Church buildings, donations, among others; emphasis should also be put on spiritual development and Evangelism. He urged all participants not to be ashamed of the Gospel but should rather rise up and build the spiritual walls of the Church with prayer, daily Bible studies and vibrant worship services. In conclusion, he challenged them to contribute their quota to the development process like Prophet Nehemiah of old with much prayer and fasting.
In a related development, the National Chairman of the Ministers’ Conference of Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rev. Dr. J. O. Y. Mante expressed his gratitude to God for the lives of participants and acknowledged their presence. He encouraged the participants to accept challenges and solve them than to bury their heads in the sand like the proverbial ostrich. In addition, he urged them to seriously develop an African form of worship and systems of church operation that would allow church members to seriously pray to God by themselves than relying on those written prayers from Europe or America.
Concluding his message, he called on Ministers to abide by serious discipleship, quality worship life style, especially in song ministration, and to be simple ministers in Christ’s Vineyard.
