Year: 2020

CHILDREN MINISTRIES DEPARTMENT

The department during the period under review organized some programs.
Churches were given GCs specially designed 28 fundamental beliefs for children dubbed “God Loves Me 28 ways. It is expected that before the child leaves the children ministries class he/she have learnt all our fundamental beliefs and understood why he/she is an Adventist the concept.
In March, the children took part in the Global Youth Day Celebration which was branded adopt
They also celebrate Children Sabbath on July 27.
Local Churches organized quizzes among the Children

Camp-meeting
The conference bought camp-meeting readings for the children ministries.

Youth camps.
Children in the department attended Youth camp-meetings in their respective districts and zones across the conference.

Future plans
The division is organizing a convention for children ministries leaders and I am pleading with church leaders to sponsor the children ministries leaders to attend this all-important program for the benefits will be plentiful.

Challenges

1. Poor attendance to meetings and workshops.
2. Improper place of worship for the children.
3. Little or no supervision of the activities of the children by church leadership
4. Inadequate resource for the department.

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. The department should be resourced with more Adventist literature for children and their leaders.
2. Church leadership should sponsor children ministries leaders to attend more workshops, seminars and conventions to equip them with the requisite skill they need to bring these little ones to Christ.
3. Church leadership should take keen in interest in the spiritual growth and development of our children.

Appreciation
I am indebted to God for his spiritual leading and guidance.
I am grateful to the leadership of the conference, pastors and all workers and local church leaders who in their diverse ways made this report a success.
I will be ingrate if I fail to recognize the selfless service of our children ministries leaders who have remained dedicated to call to nurture these little ones in spite of the challenges.
God bless you all.

Humbly submitted by
Children Ministries Director MICG
Mrs. Veronica Nkansah Sarpong

WOMEN’S MINISTRIES REPORT
FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY – DECEMBER 2019

Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Psalm 40:5
The department has accomplished some success for the Lord and the ensuing pages tell it all
Pastor chair, the department is committed to;
• A. NURTURE (REACH UP WITH GOD)
Revive women to have an intimate relationship with God
• B. EMPOWER (REACH IN WITH GOD)
To provide leadership training, seminars and resource materials to further develop women ministry leaders.
• C. SUPPORT EVANGELISM (REACH OUT WITH GOD)
To involve women/ young women using their individual gifts to reach out to friends and neighbors so as to bring them to Christ.

EVANGELISM
As one of our objectives explains, women are empowered to reach out with God, thus women are always encouraged to actively get involved in bringing souls to Christ. In this regard, women within the conference organized three major campaigns.
1.WAD/NGUM SUPPORTED THE WOMEN DURING THE PRE-WAD CONGRESS 2019.
SITES
i. Bremang –East Church Of The Nkontwima District Won 15 Souls.
ii. Achiase District opened a new church at Ntiri Buoho won 15 Souls.
iii. ADASS: Temple Crusade Were Organized.

1. SOME CHURCHES ORGANIZED TEMPLE CRUSADED AND IN ALL WE WON 95 SOULS TO THE GLORY OF GOD.

SPECIAL DAYS CELEBRATION

Date	Theme	Author
March
June	The call to arise and shine
August	Love changes all things
November	Lord save my family	Mrs. Veronica Sarpong

WAD CONGRESS
To the glory of God MICGC presented 92 delegates during the WAD Women Ministry Congress.
List of Delegates for WAD Women’s Ministries Congress

MID-CENTRAL GHANA CONFERENCE

NO	DISTRICT	NUMBER OF DELEGATES
1	Shepherdess	5
2	Director	1
3	Abofour	0
4	Achiase	5
5	Akomadan	2
6	Bantama	14
7	Barkese	0
8	Boamang	6
9	Bohyen	13
10	Bremang	3
11	Kodie	2
12	Maakro	5
13	Kronum	4
14	Namong	1
15	Nkenkaasu	0
16	Nkontwima	10
17	Ohwim	7
18	Offinsso	3
19	Old Tafo Mile 3	10
20	Suame	4
	Total	95

SPECIAL ACTIVITIES OF THE CONGRESS
Community Service
The conference benefited from the WAD Congress in three different ways.
• As Part Of The Congress ADASS Received A Construction Of Modern Wash Room For Both Students And Staff At Cost About 8000
• Kwaman Basic SDA School also had washroom for both pupils and staff.
• The Department also donated items such as Industrial Machine, Shoe Grinding Machine, Last etc. at a cost of GH?4,500 to an orphanage and a home for the physically challenged- Action Foundation-Offinsso.

TOPICS DISCUSSED AMONG OTHERS.
i. Serving after Jesus model
ii. Lovingly praying for the prodigal son
iii. Serving Christ as queen of hope
iv. Effecting parenting in the 21st century
v. Aging gracefully
vi. Women and legal issues
vii. Loving him for Christ
viii. How to handle hurts and frustration.
ix. Choosing life partners.
x. Workshops on victims of domestic abuse

CAMPUS MINISTRIES
• A YOUNG LADIES DAY WAS AT WESLEY SHS ON MARCH 23, 2019.

RETREATS
• Nkontwima district young ladies organized young ladies day at Bremang East on13th April 2019.
• Namong district organized a weekend retreat at Sakam. About 50 women attended. The guest of honor was Nana Afransor the queen mother of the town.
COMMUNITY SERVICES
• Offinso district donated foodstuffs and toiletries worth GH?3000 at Action Foundation
• Old- Tafo Mile 3 also visited Kumasi Central Prisons and made donations worth GHS 1500.00
• Kronum district also made some donation to Denase Orphanage

HEALTH
Nkontwima District climbed the Nsuta Kwaman Hills as a way of de-stressing the body and also admiring God’s wonderful designs

END IT NOW
Offinsso and Suame District organized Abuse Prevention Day. They marched through the principal streets with ply-cards.
They had on these cards expressions among others as
i. stop child trafficking
ii. respect the right of the child
iii. children are also created in the image of God

WIM DEVOTION BOOK 2020

WOMEN FROM OUR CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTED TO THE 2020 WIM DEVOTIONAL BOOK.

THESE ARE:

1. Mrs. Dorcas Osei Afriyie
2. Mrs. Regina Oduro Baafi   
3. Mrs. Mary Amponsah Boateng
4. Mrs. Abigail Asante Djin
5. Mrs. Veronica Sarpong
6. Mrs. Ophelia Nkansah Tonto
7. Mrs. Grace Owusu Amoako

 These books are sold and the profits are used to sponsor our needy but brilliant young ladies.

SCHOLARSHIPING OUR SISTERS
Mid-Central Ghana Conference received an amount of 2000 cedis from the SOS fund from the Northern Ghana Union . This was used to support four of our young women, they are ;
i. Sandra Owusu Acheaw-Offinso District
ii. Wendy Lartey-Bohyen District
iii. Lauren Dian-Ohwim District
iv. Pat – Kronum District

WORKSHOP
1.Ohwim district organized a day’s retreat at Ohwim church.
2.Boamang district organized wealth creation workshop. They learnt how to make different soaps like bf, geisha, guardian, sunlight key soap and detergents like omo, parazol and dettol.

FELLOWSHIPS
Offinsso district at Obuasi
Abofour , Nkenkaasu and Akomadan zone(ANAZONAL) at Abofour Central Church in February.
Amakye Bare in the Barekese district inaugurated the Women Ministries on August 10, 2019.
Kronum District made a donation of 10 bags of cement and clothings to Denase orphanage

SPECIAL DAYS
PASTORS AND ELDERS APPRECIATION DAY
Most of the women leadership led the churches to appreciate our spiritual leaders.
Maakro church did it in a grand style, the organized dinner for the elders and the spouses and donated other gifts as appreciation for their selfless support to god’s work.
Suame church organized a night with our mothers ‘, to celebrate the mothers in the church. The mothers in turn also shared their experiences with the church and admonished the upcoming ones to be dedicated to the call to motherhood by god.

VULNERABLE DAY
Some churches organized a special day for the orphans and the vulnerable.
They made donations in kind to the orphans, widows and the aged in the church. They commended the aged for holding onto the call from their maker and handing over the baton to the younger generation.
A special dedicatory prayer was made for all the groups. Districts that organized this program include Ohwim, Bremang and Achiase.

Challenges
a) Poor attendance to meetings, workshops and programs.
b) Church leadership should take keen in interest in the spiritual growth and development of our women who are the majority in the church.
c) Little or no sponsorship from the church to support women’s program.
d) To acquire a land for Ntiribuoho Church.

RECOMMENDATIONS
a) Church leadership should take keen in interest in the spiritual growth and development of our women.
b) Women leadership within the conference has decided to support the newly opened Ntiribuoho Church with GHS 20,000.00 through solicitation. I plead with church leadership to give them room to solicit from the members to support such a worthy course.

Appreciation
I am indebted to God for his spiritual leading and guidance.
I am grateful to the leadership of the conference, pastors and all workers and local church leaders who in their diverse ways made this report a success.
I will be ingrate if I fail to recognized the selfless service of our Women’s Ministries Leaders who have remained dedicated to work God’s vineyard in spite of the challenges.
God bless you all.

Humbly submitted by
Children Ministries Director MICG
Mrs. Veronica Nkansah Sarpong

Elder Ted Wilson pays a courtesy call on the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo at the Jubilee House

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Introduction
Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Elders, Colleague Ministers and Workers, Institutional Heads, Ladies and Gentlemen. I am privileged to present to you a brief report on Publishing Ministry as a departmental director for the period of March – December 2019.
Mr. Chairman, as a Church with the gift of the Spirit of Prophecy, we should always be mindful of the fact that literature evangelism or Canvassing to be precise, should be our passion and needs be pushed on to the fore with much earnestness and effectively, as Ellen White urges, because it the work of God which is profusely blessing bearing to those that take it on.- Colporteur Mins. p17.
Therefore, as a Conference it is our serious charge to lift the Story of Calvary aloft for people to have the best glimpse of the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the hope He has for those that believe in Him through the spread of literature.
Mr. Chairman, I took up the task as a Publishing Ministry director of the Conference with the above responsibility as a focal point.

PLANS AND STRATEGIES
My main focus of the duty was on sales and sharing of Adventist literature, through which witnessing of the gospel be accomplished; the need to recruit personnel for the Conference as Literature Evangelists was first.

1. Recruitment of Literature Evangelists
   • Train, equip and empower LEs through workshops seminars.
   • Replenish ABC with the necessary books and stuff
   • Nurture Church members on how to best promote or sell Adventist literature.
   • Form Publishing Ministry Council to plan for the ministry
   • Visit and supervise Churches, sites, and stands of promotion and sales.
   • Recruit Local or Regular LEs, Student LEs and Part-time LEs
2. Map up strategies to distribute free Adventist literature
   a) Deposit free books at Hospitals, Banks, Shops etc. for people who are not Adventists and cannot either have time to attend Adventist evangelistic programs.
   b) Identify donors to fund the cost of the books in order that it could be freely distributed.
   c) Take inventory of old stock and ascertain the quantity available in order to make out where exactly to begin.
   d) Provide or ensure accommodation for Student LEs for their temporal stay of work.
   Provide Cupboards at vantage Church premises thus Bantama, Maakro and Bohyen Churches to showcase available literature at the ABC. This will communicate to members and non-members to patronize them at ease.

STATISTICAL REPORT ON LITERATURE EVANGELISTS FOR THE PERIOD
I. Regular LEs –
a. Full Time: 25
b. Active LE: 15
II. Part-Time LEs – 9
Total sales – GH?14,002.80

Workshops
Sunday 10th March 2019, was scheduled for a workshop and recruitment of LEs. After letters of notification had circulated through Churches and districts as well as text messages on the various platforms of the Conference, the workshop was carried out at Bantama Church premises with only a hand full of participants.
It was a gross disappointment since that was the first time of dealing with that department and also no recruitment of literature evangelists was made, for none yielded. Unfortunate situation was that though, I was not discouraged.

Recruitments
On this aspect of mobilizing personnel for the department, the Union director, Pastor Richard Armah Tandor joined hands with me moving from Churches and to districts, promoting and trying to recruit LEs at the expense of his own resource. Among others are: Sunday, 9th February, the Publishing director, Pr. SK Adusei attended a workshop in Offinso for Publishing, promotion, recruitment and training.
On Sarturday, 16th March, 2019, Pr. Armar Tandor the NOGH Publishing director assisted the conference director at a visit to the Old Tafo Mile3 district for promotion and recruitment of Literature evangelists.
Additionally, on Sunday 14th July, 2019 another Publishing workshop was scheduled for promotion, recruitment and training of LEs at Bremang Central Church. As a matter of fact, all those workshops could not yield the results aimed at having a band of literature evangelists the Publishing Ministry needed.
It is still our earnest prayer of enlisting LEs for the Publishing Ministry of the Mid- Central Ghana Conference.

Student Literature Evangelists
The Publishing Director for the Northern Ghana Union Mission, in the month of May 2019, after a NOGH publishing advisory committee meeting notified the office of the publishing director, MICG of taking charge of all four ladies student literature evangelists who had come from Babcock University in Nigeria for a period of four month from then.
These student LEs were welcome and resided at the Nkontwima Church guest house for their period of stay till they finally left for Babcock University in Nigeria where they came from.
On behalf of the leaders of the administration, I would like to use this platform to express profound appreciation to the Nkontwima district Pastor and his elders for the generosity exhibited towards our student literature evangelists during their period of work. May the Lord replenish whatever you expended on their behalf.
After they had left, the ABC – Mid-Central Ghana Conference had disposed off a greater quantity of books which heather to had been a bottleneck of the Publishing Department of the Conference.

BANTAMA CHURCH AS ABC ANNEX
As part of the plan or vision of carrying out literature evangelism, Bantama was cited as a point of ABC annex for the conference. After submission and acceptance of proposals to the Administrative Committee meeting, Bantama Church premises was accepted as an Adventist Books Center Extension for the Mid – Central Ghana Conference.
Currently, the Northern Ghana Union Mission has offered a metal Container of 12′ long for display and sales of Adventist literature. However, sales and display have not as yet begun, due to some little work that needs to be done, couple with the problem of the actual positioning of the container at the Church compound. It is hoped that by the close of the first quarter, things might have been straightened for operation to begin.

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE / BOARD
On Friday 23rd August, after it had been accepted by the Administrative Committee, to set a committee or board responsible for editing materials that are written from the conference and those from our Churches to the public domain, the MICG Editorial Committee/ Board was given birth to. It was since announced to Churches about the birth of this board.
It was also announced that the board had come out with a News Letter which all matters of interest in the Church, within the domain of our Conference are warmly invited for edit and publication. Interested and completed works could access this E-mail address: micgeditorial@gmail.com. The committee or board still waits patiently for completed articles to work on.
Challenges

1. Church members lack commitment and willingness to yield to be recruited, for fear of being dispossessed of their livelihood.
2. Members believe that price of Adventists books are so costly, and that depending exclusively on it might render them out of business.

Gratitude
We really appreciate how far the Lord has led us. It is our prayer that as we have set the pace in the new year, may He guide us through His will in order to accomplish our set goals.

Submitted by,
Pastor Stephen Kwadwo Adusei
Director, Publishing Ministry