Graphic gives thanks to God
The Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) yesterday held its annual end-of-year thanksgiving service with a call on the management and staff of the company to remain thankful to God for sustaining the company as the leader in the media industry.
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Sixteen staff of the company were also honoured for their distinguished contribution to the growth of the company. The workers danced to gospel song ministration from Destiny Project.
Making the call, the General Overseer of the Global Revival Ministries, Reverend Dr Robert Ampiah-Kwofie, in a sermon, acknowledged that remaining at the top of the industry over the years had not been easy.
God, he said, had given the company the grace to maintain an excellent standard of operation and added that “as we have believed God and come together to thank him, he will continue to do greater things in our individual and corporate lives”.
Challenges of a champion
“Every champion faces challenges because a leader is always the target of others who will scrutinise and learn your strengths and weaknesses in order to overtake you. So to have maintained that leadership position for a long time is an achievement of great measure,” he said.
He said 2014 had been a very challenging year for businesses which had seen some folding up because of the quantum of losses experienced but added that “God will defend those who are appreciative and grateful.”
For 2015, he said, God would continue to protect the lives of staff of the company from danger, and added that “God will stop all the schemes of the enemy because of our thanksgiving”.
He said some people did not see the need to thank God for the year and urged that regardless of how difficult things might have been in the year under review, an attitude of gratitude to God would multiply his blessings, and added, “There are things that we do today that would have eternal consequences”.
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Opportunities for glorification
The Managing Director of GCGL, Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, said people always went to God seeking solutions for their problems for solutions but those challenges for God were opportunities for his glorification.
“Some of the crisis we have seen in our lives was for God’s glory to be seen,” he said, and explained that although the year had been a “Jericho year”, it was an opportunity for God to glorify himself for his children to have testimonies.
He recounted when the company was being hit by a number of accidents involving its drivers but when the face of God was sought through fasting and prayers, God had answered and the accidents had ceased.
Difficult year but….
“It has been a difficult year but the good Lord has seen us through. Our biggest thanks is to God for what he is going to do for us in 2015,” Mr Ashigbey said, and added that it required all staff to repose their trust in him to be able to overcome all challenges in 2015.
Staff also danced and sang songs of praises to God for seeing them through the year.
Awards
Sixteen staff of the company, who were honoured for their distinguished contribution to the growth of the company, included seven journalists of the company who won various awards at the 2013 Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) awards and hardworking staff. There were also longh-service awards.
A Senior Procurement Officer, Mr Francis Crabbe, was adjudged the Overall Best Worker.
The seven GJA awardees were the 2013 Journalist of the Year, Mrs Mabel Aku Baneseh, Edmund Kofi Yeboah, Maxwell Akaalare Adombila, Samuel Tei Adano, Seth Bokpe, Nana Konadu Agyeman and Akwasi Ampratwum-Mensah.
Workers who were honoured for their hard work were Mr Victor Kwawukume, Mr Abednego Kwao, Mrs Hadiza Nuhu-Billa Quansah, Zadok Kwame Gyesi, Moses Tetteh Narh, Michael Twum Barima, Diana A. Kankam and Vanlare Agbetormenyo.
Some workers were also recognised for working long hours.
Writer’s email: victor.kwawukume@graphic.com.gh