THE METHODIST CHURCH GHANA

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THE METHODIST CHURCH GHANA

• 5th BIENNIAL /43rd CONFRENCE
• AT WINNEBA
• OFFICIAL OPENING
• MOST REV. DR ROBERT ABOAGYE-MENSAH
• (Presiding Bishop of the Methodist conference)
• MR JAMES ABAIDOO- BREW-(Lay President)
• RT REV. KOW .B. EGYIR (Administrative. Bishop)

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PRESIDING BISHOPS ADDRESS TO CONFERENCE 2008
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Ebenezer, appreciation to all

• CHURCH AND STATE ELECTIONS
• Presidential/Parliamentary elections
• Presiding Bishop/Lay President

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EVANGELISM MISSION AND RENEWAL

• Standing Orders ( S.O.11)
• Doubling of Membership ,406 Churches planted in
  five years
• 91 Churches from Jan.2007- March2008
• Missions Conferences
• Renewal Programmes
• Twinning Programmes

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YOUTH DIVISION

• Renovation of Aburi Youth Centre
• GHAMSU in Students in Church Evangelism

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STUDENTS IN CHURCH EVANGELISM
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Connexional Youth Assembly
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EPISCOPAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT

• Large number of ex-Bishops
• Unwieldy regalia accompanying office of Bishops

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Ten year strategic plan

• Launched on 16th December 2007
• To rekindle Wesleyan zeal of Holiness.
• To review the Board system of administration.
• Expand financial resource base.
• Promote ICT for development.
• Quality human resource management

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Provision of Youth and gender mainstreaming

• Expansion and modernization of infrastructure.
• Initiate policies of poverty reduction.
• Strengthen linkages and collaborations internally
  and externally

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METHODIST RAFIKI SATELITE VILLAGE

• Village formally opened on 14th December, 2007
  at Gyaahadze near Winneba

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METHODIST DEVELOPMENT FUND

• Dissolution of the 30 harvest contribution
• That the MDF has come to stay
• That the Church hierarchy must commit itself to
  ensuring that the scheme operates at all levels
  of the Churchs administration
• That the education of the members of the Church
  about the MDF and its benefits must go

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Methodist Development and Relief
Services(M.D.R.S.)

• Made tremendous impact in the lives of many
  people and communities.
• Promotion of Moringa and Soya Beans projects,
  Rural Enterprises Project, such as soap
  manufacturing, Micro-finance, Transports hiring
  and rental, Ga Rural Community Enhancement
  Project (- GRACE), as well as Water Project in
  general

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M.D.R.S
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MORINGA
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METHODIST UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

• ACQUISITIONS
• The University has acquired the following
  properties
•  A three-storey building which is being used as a
  Guest House at Latebiokorshie.
• A building to house staff of MUCG and a large
  warehouse to serve as stores for the University
  has also been acquired at Dansoman very close to
  the University

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M.U.C.G

• ONGOING PROJECTS
• The construction of a five-storey South Wing
  Faculty block has reached the first floor. This
  phase is expected to be completed by the end of
  August 2008. When completed, the South Wing
  Faculty Block would add more floor space to
  accommodate about 1600 students. The basement of
  the block is under preparation to contain about
  twenty-nine offices for staff.

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M.U.C.G

• The Landscaping of the Dansoman Campus has
  reached an advanced stage. The Sports field is
  being grassed. Plans are being made to put the
  main campus road in shape.
• The Lay Movement has agreed in principle to build
  a Library Complex on the campus in exchange for
  the current one which would be converted into a
  residential hostel.
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M.U.C.G

• SATELLITE CAMPUSES
• Tema Campus
• Wenchi Campus
• Kumasi Campus
• This year Kpeehe Resurrection Society with the
  support of the foundation money from Immediate
  Past Lay President, Mr. Ato Essuman has offered
  scholarship to 8 students to be increased to 10
  students annually.

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Grant House

• The old presiding bishops manse is now developed
  into an office space and rented out and is
  called Grant House, named after the first
  President of our Church, the Most Rev. Dr.
  Francis Chapman Furgeson Grant

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FRANCIS CHAPMAN FURGUSON GRANT HOUSE
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REFURBISHED GRANT HOUSE
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Presiding Bishops Residency

• It was funded mainly from three sources partly
  from rent from the old manse, contribution from
  the 170th Anniversary Celebration and the
  Methodist Development Fund.

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Presiding Bishops New Residency at East Legon
Accra
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Presiding Bishops New Residency at East Legon
Accra
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Presiding Bishops New Residency at East Legon
Accra
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Presiding Bishops New Residency at East Legon
Accra
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Establishing and Investing in a Company

• The establishment of these companies will add to
  our traditional forms of financing the Church
• An example is what we are doing with the
  development of the Suame Round About landed
  property. Plans are well ahead for that property
  to be developed into a shopping mall.

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Ghanaian Methodist Churches Overseas

• In Germany, Italy and Canada the home churches
  requested us to send them more ministers
  (pastors). In response to this request, last year
  we sent Very Rev. Jane Odoom to Germany, and this
  year we are going to send a Minister each to
  Canada and Italy.

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Ghanaian Methodist Churches Overseas

• Very Revds Jacob French and Peter Y. Acheampong
  and their families together with mature lay
  leadership and responsible congregations have
  brought warmth and growth in the two Ghanaian
  Methodist Churches in Toronto. The two Ministers
  are exchanging pulpits and celebrating some of
  the Christian feasts and festivals together.

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World Methodist Family and Ecumenical Relations

• The Lay President, the Administrative Bishop and
  I attended the World Methodist gathering in
  Seoul, South Korea. Our partnership as a Church
  with the Methodist Church in Britain, which is
  over 170 years old is still strong and growing,
  to which we are grateful to God

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Conclusion A Word of thanks and appreciation

• Let me take this opportunity to thank the Lord
  who called me into the ordained ministry, and in
  his own right time led the Conference of 2002
  held in Kumasi, where I was commissioned in 1973,
  to elect me as the Presiding Bishop of the
  Methodist Church Ghana
• I thank my family, especially my dear wife, Mrs.
  Grace Aboagye-Mensah for standing with me under
  all circumstance, and praying for me and the
  church in all things.

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SONG

• Aseda nyinaa yee wo de, Jesus Mebotantim Nyame,
• Ayeyi nyinaa yee wo de Jesus
• Makokyem ne mabankese ne wo
•  Onyame dza waye dooso Wadom nti na ye te ase
• Aseda nyinaa ye wo de Jesus .Yebeka dee waye
  akyere aman .Jesus ye bebo wo din da da
• Makokyem ne abankese ne wo

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APPRECIATION

• Most Rev. Dr. Robert Aboagye-Mensah
• Presiding Bishop
• The Methodist Church Ghana
• August, 14, 2008
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