Story: Mary Ankrah
CHURCHES in Ghana, in partnership with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in the United States of America have launched the Ghana Jesus Festival (GJF) to proclaim the gospel and revive the faith of believers.
The Ghana Jesus Festival seeks to give the opportunity to a large number of people to make peace with God and become genuine believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.
The festival is also to help churches in Ghana to develop “disciple-making pastors” and make the local churches “disciple-making congregations”.
The GJF is therefore intended to impact positively on the society and promote spiritual, economic and social development in the country.
It is hoped that through the GJF, lives would be transformed, especially those dealing in drugs, homosexuals and the corrupt.
At the official launch of the GJF in Accra, the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Dr Edward Omane Boamah, urged Christian leaders and churches to revive Ghanaians with good messages so that they would be able to impact positively on the lives of politicians to prevent activities that would not improve the lives of people.
Dr Boamah also said Ghanaians and the world expected higher standards from Christians and so they must watch their ways and should not tarnish the good image of Christianity and the clergy.
He encouraged the Christian community to use the GJF to remember and support disadvantaged children in the orphanages to assist the government in providing for them and urged the media to ensure that Christianity occupied a higher pedestal in the society.
The festival is slated to take place from April 28 to 29, 2012 at the Accra Sports Stadium and would train church leaders in Accra, Tema and Kasoa municipalities in discipleship.
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