METHODIST CHURCH BUILDS TEACHERS TRAIINING COLLEGE (PAGE 11)

Story: Kwame Asideu MARFO, Takoradi

The Sekondi Diocese of the Methodist Church is to establish a Teacher Training College at Abura Ahanta for the training of more teachers for its schools.
Documentation of the land, which was donated to the diocese by the royal Akisi stool family of Abura Ahanta,has been done and a quantity surveyor has demarcated the land with pillars.
The Bishop of the Sekondi Diocese, Rt. Rev. John Harvey-Ewusi, announced this at the opening of the 47th annual synod of the diocese at the Freeman Methodist Chapel at Kwesimintsim in Takoradi.
The six-day synod is on the theme, “Oh Holy Spirit, establish us in the Lord Jesus Christ for the unfinished task”.
He said a special committee, chaired by the Western Regional Manager of Methodist schools, had been appointed to consider the modalities, the possibility to start with a temporary accommodation and accreditation among others.
Rt. Rev Harvey-Ewusi explained that the construction of the training college was a long term project, and that it was the vision of the diocese to establish the college.
He said the diocese had provided furniture for the Abuesi Methodist Primary/Junior High School as its contribution to the new structures donated by the West Africa Gas Pipeline Company.
He said the diocese also provided two packets of iron sheets to the Nsuaem Bibiani Methodist Primary School in the Gwira Circuit of the diocese.
The diocesan bishop further announced that the diocese had established a 31.9-hectare rubber plantation on its Gwira farms.
He said the plantation had been mixed with sunflower as a short term project, since the sunflower did not take a long time to mature.
The Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Chief Executive, Mr Philip Kwesi Nkrumah said the church had a responsibility for shaping the lives of people.
He also urged the church to look at the well-being of the people, and called on them to come out with strategies and policies that would move the communities forward.
The Chief of Kwesimintsim, Nana Egodzi Essuon, called on the church to assist in the promotion of the girl-child education, since there were still more girls who were not in school.