The Legon Branch Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church Saturday dedicated its church building and a youth centre.
The modern church building estimated at nearly GH₵1.2 million, houses an auditorium, treasury, offices for the ministry, women and council of elders, music and a conference rooms and other ancillary facilities.
The youth centre has a conference hall auditorium, library, play grounds restroom and others built at a cost of GH₵ 85,000.
Inset, Pastor Dr Hammond (middle) cutting the tape to dedicate the building
Preaching the sermon on the theme “To God be the glory “, after performing the dedication ceremony, Pastor Dr Solomon O. T. Hammond, President of the Accra City Conference of the Adventist Church, admonished Christians to always set before them a Godly ambition of peace, development and progress to everyone in the society.
Pastor Dr Hammond stressed that, “as Christians wherever we find ourselves, the Christ-like characteristics must be exhibited to the glorification of God. We must eschew negative and corrupt tendencies that do not glorify God.”
The Host Pastor of Legon Branch, Pastor Dr Samuel Larmi, urged the congregation and Christians to allow themselves for the teachings God thought in the church to renew their spirit to see the need to put God first in all their endeavours.
Rev Charles Antwi Boasiako, Chairman of the Chaplaincy Board of the University of Ghana, speaking on behalf of the Acting Vice Chancellor said the University made the right decision by allocating the land to the church and urged them to use their platform to mode committed Christians.
Such committed individuals, he said, would be a great resource personnel capable of exposing charlatans parading with false prophesies.
Kofi Okofo Dartey, an elder of the church, explained that, the Legon Church began on the campus with a few undergraduate students in 1963.
The elder said in 1985, the church was renamed Staff Village Adventist Church and later admitted into the sisterhood in 2004 with the current name.
He said that the church currently had a membership of 326 and fellowship strength of 400.
BY VICTOR A BUXTON
