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SDA College of Education, Koforidua climaxes 60th anniversary with durbar
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The SDA College of Education 60th anniversary celebration was climaxed with a durbar at Asokore near Koforidua last Sunday.
The theme for the one week programme was “60 years of Adventist Teacher Education in Ghana: Our Success, Our Challenges and the way Forward.”
The Acting Principal, Dr Cecilia Ofosua Odame recounted the numerous infrastructural development going on in the college and paid a glowing tribute to the government especially President Akufo-Addo for responding swiftly to their request for the fixing of the deplorable roads of the college.
According to her, the government through the Ministry of Highways had completed the first phase of the college’s 4.55 km road network and announced that the government had again released funds for the completion of college administration block and the ongoing 16- unit tutors quarters. Dr Cecilia Odame said that the college was established in 1962 with only 120 students but currently the student population was over 2,400 but lacked lecture theatres, and transportation for both students and tutors.
She, therefore, appealed to the government, philanthropists, NGOs and old students to provide the school with adequate and well equipped theatres or lecture halls, a 60 seater bus and a 16- seater minibus to cater for the current student population.
“It will go a long way to enable the college achieve its vision and mission for the building of the nation” she added.
Pastor Prof Robert Osei Bonsu, President of the West-Central African Division of the SDA Church, said the church had accepted the task of conveying to the world a message of God’s grace in establishing His ideas on earth.
The Minister of Education Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, in a speech read on his behalf said “education transforms lives and enables unimaginable development of persons and states and without it no one could beat poverty, diseases, marked inequalities and environmental degradation.”
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He said no nation could account for quality education without accounting for the quality of its teachers and, therefore, called on colleges of education to adopt the 21st century skills such as, critical thinking, communication collaboration and creativity to enable the youth gain employment to develop the nation.
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Seth Acheampong read President Akufo-Addo’s address while the President of the Southern Ghana Union Conference of the SDA, Pastor Dr T. T. Ocran chaired the programme.
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Christians have been urged to demonstrate a living faith in Jesus Christ by allowing their confession of Him as Lord and Saviour to reflect in their daily lives.
According to the Kaneshie District Pastor of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana (EPCG), Rev. Dzidzor Nathaniel Affram, a genuine Christian’s confession should go beyond words and be demonstrated through obedience to God, love for others and service to the Church.
He made the call at the 40th anniversary remembrance service for the late Wesley Kwasi Kwadzo at the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana, Maranatha Congregation at Awudome Avenui in the Volta Region.
Speaking on the theme, “The Church Built on a Living Confession,” Rev. Affram said life would continually present challenges capable of testing Christians’ faith, making it necessary for believers to hold firmly to their confession that Jesus Christ is Lord.
He explained that accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour required Christians to live according to His teachings, stressing that their faith must be evident in their conduct.
“A living confession listens to God and not man,” he said, urging Christians to remain obedient to God even when faced with difficulties and pressures.
Rev. Affram further encouraged the congregation to care for vulnerable people and demonstrate concern for others, adding that such acts were practical expressions of Christian faith.
He also urged Christians to identify and use their God-given gifts to build the Church.
He said every member of the Church had a role to play and cautioned Christians against looking down on others because of their status or abilities.
The remembrance service brought together family members, friends, members of the congregation and sympathisers to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the late Wesley Kwasi Kwadzo.
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