COVID-19 Lockdown: Victory Bible Church donates food Items to 2,000 homes

Victory Bible Church International (VBCI), a charismatic and pentecostal church, has given out food items to over 2,000 homes within the Awoshie-Anyaa communities in the Ablekuma North Constituency where the church is located.

The gesture of the Church is in line with the call of government for religious and corporate institutions to join hands with the state to mitigate the impact of the current COVID-19 lockdown in Greater Accra, Kasoa and Greater Kumasi.

The families who received the food items on April 19, 2020, thronged the church's premises to pick up their share of the food items. Officers of the Ghana Armed Forces and the Ghana Police Service together with representatives of VBCI ensured that the humanitarian activity went on within the laid down protocols by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and government.

In an interview with journalists on the sidelines of the event, Senior Associate Pastor in charge of the humanitarian service at the Headquarters Church, Dominion Sanctuary, Rev. Anthony Anderson, observed that VBCI under the leadership of the Presiding Bishop, Rt. Rev. N. A. Tackie-Yarboi, is very community-centred as a church and that the COVID-19 crisis has offered the ministry the opportunity to activate her social and humanitarian wing to serve the Awoshie community and its environs.

"The Church is community-minded, Jesus is people-centred and so we are only an arm of Jesus Christ within the community, bringing help and being compassionate to the community. We believe that like the Bible says, Jesus saw the multitude and he was moved, we see the people in the community and we are moved by their plight," Rev. Tony Anderson stated.

Items distributed

Among the items shared to the families were bags of rice, cooking oil, tins of sardines, semolina, loaves of bread and packs of sachet water.