Accra, April, 6 GNA - Reverend Edward Randolph-Koranteng, President of the Men of Vision and Evangelism (MOVE) has called on Ghanaians to explore their God- given talents to end the scourge of poverty and unemployment instead of seeking "manner from heaven".

"We have potentials and good things bestowed on us by God, which needs to be utilize for the benefit of all. For us to be able to unearth these good potential there is the need for us to be creative thinkers, explore the available opportunities, combine faith with work since the two go hand in hand," he stressed. Rev. Randolph-Koranteng, made the call at this year's annual MOVE conference in Accra. MOVE is a subsidiary organisation under the Harvest International Ministry.

The conference, which was on the theme: "Tomorrow Happened Yesterday, " attracted about 150 participants and served as a platform for Christians nationwide to brainstorm on the word of God, share ideas on entrepreneurship and came out with solutions on how to deal with the daily work hassle. Presenting a paper on :"Conforming with New Trends of Doing Things to Aid Success," Rev. Randolph-Koranteng noted that, the world is moving at a fast pace, hence the need for Africa to be innovative, creative and "Think outside the box" to be able to survive.

"About 20 per cent of the world's population controls 80 per cent of the world's

wealth. This is because often Africans are only noted for praying but not working

hard to exploit their endowed natural resources to help development and

livelihood," he said. Rev. Randolph-Koranteng indicated that, "As a continent we need to cultivate

the habit of taking risk and learn more from failure than success. He said people had to take risk to enable them to innovate the many things

mankind is enjoying today including aero planes and vehicles. "Failure provides great learning opportunity and should be viewed as the very

life blood of success. If you give people the freedom to innovate, the freedom to

experiment, the freedom to succeed, then you must give them the freedom to fail. "The organisation of tomorrow will demand mistakes and failures. It is only by

trying lots of initiatives that we can improve our chances." On how to be creative, he indicated that, there is the need to adopt the four

basic steps namely Learning, Experimenting, Adapting and Differentiating. Rev. Randolph-Koranteng observed that there is the need for Africans to pursue

formal and informal education, continuous experiment and adapt to modern trends

of doing things and stop copying other people's work. "We also need to understand the nature of challenges, develop effective

strategies towards addressing such challenges, dare assumption and stop riding on

the past glory of our forefathers," by shedding the old ways of doing things. Rev. Fitzgerald Odonkor, President of Harvest Praise International, urged the

participants to remain steadfast in the Lord, stay focus and take responsibility for

their actions. He called on parents to create a conducive atmosphere for their wards to enable

them identify their talents as the only way to encourage them to be self confident

and creative.