Rev. Wegman presenting a Church calendar to the Director General, Prof. Amin Alhassan
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The newly elected leaders of the Assemblies of God Church has commended the leadership and staff of the Ghana Broadcasting Cooperation (GBC) for it’s tremendous contribution to the nation’s development and growth through dessemination of information on its numerous channels across the country.
According to the newly elected leaders of the Assemblies of God Church lead by Rev. Stephen Wengam, the cooperation has discharged it’s constitutional mandate excellently in a professional way.
This commendation was made during a courtesy call on the leadership of the state broadcasting firm, Ghana Broadcasting Cooperation (GBC) on Thursday, 15th December, 2022 in Accra
The courtesy call was to introduce the newly elected leaders and also use the opportunity to commend GBC for the it’s good work done over the years despite the economic challenges and limited resources.
In his address, Rev. Stephen Wengam, the head of the church, said Assemblies of God over the years has had a good and cordial relationship with the Corporation and considers GBC a major stakeholder, hence the visit.
Assemblies of God Ghana Newly Elected Leadership Commends GBC
In commending GBC, he said the church wanted to add its voice to the call on government to commit resources to the state broadcaster.
He also advised all Ghanaians and political parties to unite in these trying times, share ideas and come up with solutions that better the economic situation of the country as opposed to tearing ourselves apart through blame games.
Rev. Wengam ended by listing six thematic areas that as new leaders they hoped to implement to position the church and also affect the nation as a whole positively.
The areas were; Reach, Rebuilding, Restore, Reforms, Repositioning and Rebrand. He added that the Assemblies of God Church was willing to partner with GBC on all fronts to build a more stable and healthy nation.
Assemblies of God Ghana Newly Elected Leadership Commends GBC
The Director General, Prof. Amin Alhassan welcomed the leadership and used the opportunity to also sensitize them to platforms that GBC operates (Radio, TV and Online) and its audience reach. Most importantly, he enlightened the leadership on what GBC represents in the economic space and emphasised that GBC was not only in business for money but as a public service broadcaster, GBC was mandated and thus more concerned with fairly representing the complex diversity of each region in the country.
He also Indicated GBC’s willingness to collaborate with Assemblies of God and concluded that, both the social and developmental interventions of the church needed to be publicised so Ghanaians can appreciate their contribution to national development.
Source: www.thenewindependentonline.com
