By Christopher Tetteh, GNA
Sunyani, Dec. 23, GNA - The Sunyani New Town District of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church is establishing a youth training centre to provide employable skills training for the teeming unemployed youth in the Sunyani Municipality.
On completion, the centre being built behind the Church premises, would offer free skill training in masonry, auto-mechanics, carpentry and joinery and other trades, not only for members of the Church but the general public.
The centre, according to Pastor Paul Twumasi Danquah, the President of the Mid-West Ghana Conference, is also designed to offer skill training to school dropouts, single teenage mothers and the less-privileged in the society.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) after a special service held to climax the 70th anniversary of the church in Sunyani, Pastor Danquah appealed to the members of the Church to contribute in cash and kind for the development of the centre.
The anniversary was celebrated under the theme: “70 Years of Adventism in Sunyani: Heralding the Second Coming of Jesus Christ”.
Pastor Danquah expressed concern over the high rate of youth unemployment in the country saying as partners in development, there is the need for the Church to support government to provide decent jobs for the people.
Aside the spiritual development of the people, he said, the SDA church is determined to ensure that the socio-economic needs of the people were also provided to give them a sound mind to worship God.
Pastor Danquah said there are plans to construct a modern standard hospital at a yet to be chosen location in the Bono Region, and this would be in addition to the SDA Hospital in Sunyani to provide quality and accessible healthcare service delivery to the people.
In a brief history, Pastor Danquah said the seed of the SDA faith was planted in Sunyani in 1949 with only 11 members, and now could boost of 37 branches and seven Districts in the Sunyani East Municipality.
Furthermore the Mid-West Ghana Conference has 25 Districts with more than 200 churches currently.
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