Apostolic Church-Ghana gets a new President

Accra, July 8, GNA-The Reverend John Annan Adotey, newly inducted President of the Apostolic Church-Ghana, on Saturday expressed worry over the rate at which moral decadence has engulfed the nation. He mentioned drug trafficking, corruption, wickedness, immoral and indecent dressing as some of the vices that are breaking down society, adding that many people are now chancing wealth by doing many evil things.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency after his induction ceremony in Accra, Rev. Adotey said the situation has become more compounded with the Church compromising so much with the world. "You cannot even distinguish a Christian from those of the world", he noted.

Rev Adotey, has therefore, called on Christians to rise up to the challenge of leading the crusade to bring sanity into the world by seeking the kingdom of God through righteous living and fearing the Lord God Almighty.

He said: "when we, in Christendom lead the crusade, the world will emulate our steps and thereby achieve the needed transformation to build our nation. Then Ghana would be peaceful and wealthy nation that we all desire it to be".

Earlier, at the induction service, the Immediate past President of the Church, Apostle Joseph Anim, led other ministers of the gospel from all the branches of the Church in the country and overseas to officiate Rev Adotey into office.

Rev Adotey, born in May 28, 1945 into the Apostilic Church Ghana, is a graduate of the University of Cape Coast and has held various leadership positions in the Church. Between 2002 and 2005, Rev Adotey was also the head of Ghana National Office of the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) where he had worked in various capacities since 1978. He would head the Church as its President for a four -year term. Rev Adotey is married to Mrs Rebecca Akweley Adotey, a Deaconess of the Church, a retired educationist and a former National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP.

The induction ceremony was graced by government dignitaries, including Mrs Elizabeth Sackey, the Member of Parliament for Okaikoi North, former Ministers of State, Bishop Charles Agyin Asare, Head of the Word Miracle Church International and Apostle Ekow Badu-Woode, General Secretary of the Ghana Pentecostal Council. Six other pastors of the Church were also ordained into priesthood to head the branches of the church in the country.