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Apostle Eric Nyamekye re-elected Chairman of Church Of Pentecost
The Church of Pentecost has re-elected Apostle Eric Nyamekye to serve as its chairman for the next five years.
This historic event took place during the Church’s 46th General Council Meetings on Thursday, May 4, 2023, where Apostle Nyamekye secured an overwhelming majority of the votes, winning 1,255 “yes” votes out of the 1,262 total votes cast, representing 99.45%.
Apostle Nyamekye assumed office as the 6th Chairman of the Church in 2018, securing 98% of the total votes cast, and immediately set in motion a five-year strategic vision, titled “Vision 2023,” with the overarching theme of “Possessing the Nations.”
The Vision 2023 has led to the expansion of the Church’s ministry scope, with the introduction of new ministry interventions such as the Home and Urban Missions (HUM), Ministry to Persons with Disabilities (MPWDs), Chieftaincy Ministry, Chaplaincy Ministry, School Outreach Ministry (SOM), PENSA International, and Pentecost Workers Guild (PeWG), among others.
Through these ministry interventions, many unreached and marginalised groups, such as commercial sex workers, street dwellers, drug addicts, African migrants, expatriates, Fulanis, and Kotokolis, among others, have been brought to the saving knowledge of Christ and reformed.
Under the sterling leadership of Apostle Nyamekye, the Church of Pentecost has made giant strides in ministry as well as on the national and global fronts.
The Church’s membership has grown by 29.1%, from 3,257,699 to 4,203,077 worldwide, and it has won 1,151,723 souls for Christ, out of which 782,578 have been baptised in water from 2019 to 2022.
Within the same period of his administration, the Church of Pentecost has constructed 57 water facilities and spent GHS 23,313,518.93 on educational support and GHS 8,132,040.65 on health support for members.
Apostle Nyamekye’s administration has also initiated various social development projects in deprived communities and institutions across the country, including the construction of reformation centres for the Ghana Prisons Service, where the Church has completed and handed over two out of the five facilities to the Service, while the three others are at various stages of construction.
Overall, Apostle Nyamekye’s first term has been remarkable, and his re-election as Chairman of The Church of Pentecost inspires optimism for what the Lord has in store for His church in the next five years.
The Church was also presented with a national award by the President of the Republic of Ghana, H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for its instrumental role in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the church played a crucial role in evacuating some stranded citizens in Ukraine to Ghana following the Ukraine-Russian war.
Profile of Apostle Eric Nyamekye
Apostle Eric Nyamekye was called into ministry in 1991 and has since served in many stations, including South Africa, where he was a missionary. Before his election as Chairman of the Church of Pentecost, he served as a member of the church’s Executive Council for five (5) years. He also worked with the church’s youth ministry, where he served as a member of the national executive committee and later as a patron.
He holds a Diploma in Human Resource Management from the Institute of Commercial Management, UK; a Post-Graduate Diploma in Applied Theology from the University of Manchester, UK; and a Master of Arts degree in Religious Studies from the University of Ghana, Legon. Apostle Nyamekye is married to Mary and is blessed with six children.
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Pres Akufo-Addo inaugurates 2 projects
President Akufo-Addo (middle), being assisted by Herbert Krapa (right) Virgenia Palmer (second from right), US Ambassador to Ghana, Brain Herlihy (extreme left), Chief Executive Off
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday inaugurated the Ghana Bridge Power Project (GBPP) and the Flowerpot Interchange at Kpone Katamanso and Ledzokuku municipalities of the Greater Accra Region.
The project is to improve traffic flow and stimulate socio-economic activities in the region.
He announced that 14 interchange projects are currently underway across the country, emphasizing the government’s commitment to completing them on schedule.
“These projects are part of the administration’s broader infrastructure development plan aimed at improving transportation and boosting economic growth. “We are building a new Ghana. A nation that works for everyone,” he stated.
Mr Francis Asenso-Boakye, Minister of Roads and Highways, cautioned the public against erecting unauthorised structures along the intersections and medians of the newly constructed interchange.
He added that despite challenges government faced, it still remained determined to achieve the goal of improving the country’s road infrastructure.
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153 apprentices in Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality receive start-up kits
Kosi Yankey Ayeh
153 apprentices, who have successfully completed training in various vocations in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality, have received start-up kits to establish their own businesses.
The beneficiaries were given sewing machines, hair dryers, spraying and welding machines, and a certificate.
Distributing the start-up kits to the beneficiaries at a graduation ceremony in Ahwetieso, Mrs Kosi Yankey-Ayeh, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA), in a speech read on her behalf said, these aspiring entrepreneurs have honed valuable skills in hairdressing, baking and confectionery, sewing and welding skills that would empower them to transform their passion into sustainable enterprises.
She encouraged them to use the skills and resources they have gained to make a meaningful impact in their communities and added that, they should not hesitate to reach out to their Business Advisory Centre’s whenever they had challenges.
Mrs Yankey-Ayeh said the Apprenticeship Programme, a vital component of the Business in Box Project, was a collaborative initiative between the GEA and Mastercard Foundation.
She said the government of Ghana, remained steadfast in its commitment to providing dignified and sustainable employment opportunities for the youth.
According to her, since 2017, the GEA had facilitated the creation of over 109, 471 jobs, with an impressive 67 per cent benefiting women.
Mr George Mireku Duker, Member of Parliament for the Tarkwa Nsuaem Constituency and the Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, observed that it was better to equip the youth who were eager to work than to give them a token.
The laudable programme, he said, must be replicated everywhere for the teeming youth, who were struggling to get jobs, so they could establish themselves for a better future.
Mr Duker stated that he had distributed equipment to support thousands of youths in his constituency and was therefore happy that the government was also committed to getting this programme done.
Mr Benjamin Kessie, Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Tarkwa Nsuaem Assembly said, through the programme 250,000 jobs would be created within four years by the implementers, who were on course.
He expressed gratitude to the President, Vice President, and the MP for initiating the programme to aid the youth, adding that the MP from day one had worked so hard to ensure that the youth in his constituency got a fair share of these equipment.
