Faith Convention, which has been an annual gathering of Christians since 1981, took a break in the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This year’s event is dedicated to “Confronting the Challenges of the Times” emphasizing the harsh socio-economic difficulties Ghanaians are going through.
As a result, the one-week event, which began on Sunday July 24, 2022, will among other plans, give priority attention to youth social and economic empowerment, career counselling and quality community leadership training along side souls winning and prayer intercessions for national prosperity.
The Archbishop of the Episcopalian Council of the Perez Chapel International, Most Reverend Charles Agyin Asare liking Ghana’s current economic crisis to the 1983 hunger period due to climatic and environmental challenges, assured that, by the time the Faith Convention ends on Sunday July 31, 2022 in Kumasi, God would have used his faithful to intervene in directing the nation how to scale the economic hurdle it is going through.
“In 1981, ’82, ’83, the nation went through a situation like that, where there was drought and in ’82 Rawlings had taken over the reigns of government, no food in the stores and no provisions and it looks like there was divine judgement on the land. Fire was breaking out everywhere, and out of desperation, many young men and women sought the face of God. And today, most of th mega church and men of God and Christian businessmen you see came out of that desperation”, Archbishop Agyin Asare reminisced.
The Presiding Bishop and General Overseer of the Word of Life Christian Centre and Missions, Reverend Dr. Isaac Quaye, while urging Ghanaians to see the prevailing socio-economic difficulties in a global perspective and that God, working through his men, will help the country avoid calamities like the Arab Spring and the Sri Lanka pandemonium in recent times.
The Executive Chairman of the Faith Convention, Rev. Douglas Frempong, noted that the event is not only bringing together revered men of God to pray but to cause a positive change in the affairs of both the country and the people.
