Women Missionary Union holds conference

Members of the North Eastern Mission Field Women Missionary Union of the Ghana Baptist Convention are attending a five-day conference in the Yendi Municipality on the theme: “The role of Godly women in the fulfilment of the great commission.” 

Organised by the Global Missions Resource Centre (GMRC), a non-profit religious international organisation, based at Yendi, the conference is being attended by about 420 participants, to empower and build their capacities to be role models in their communities and also encourage them to evangelise effectively to win souls for Christ and be agents of change in society.

The conference will also pray for peaceful elections for the country in the upcoming polls. 

Addressing the conference, the Executive Director of Global Missions Resource Centre (GMRC), Rev. Dr Emmanuel Kwabena Mustapha, urged women to use their roles as mothers and wives in society to impress on men and the youth to make this year’s general election peaceful, devoid of violence.

He said peace was a prerequisite for development and,therefore, everything must be done to sustain the current peace in the country, adding that violent conflicts resulting from elections mostly affected women and children. He cited some recent electoral violence in the sub-region to buttress his point.

He noted that Ghana was about to witness another general election and urged the women as part of their civil responsibility, to go and cast their ballot on the Election Day as their way of contributing to the sustenance of peace and multiparty democracy in the country.

Working for peace

Rev. Dr Mustapha, who is also the founder of the GMRC, urged the women to also help in educating the people to know that their political opponents were not their enemies and emphasised the need for all to work together for peace for Ghana during the elections, irrespective of their political affiliations.

Deaconess Mrs Rose Karikari Anang of the Grace Baptist Church at Sakumono in the Greater Accra Region advised the women to exhibit the godly character in them as they go and preach the gospel, and asked them to be respectful, peaceful and tolerant towards their neighbours, communities and those they were going to share the gospel with.

The Lead Womens’ Missionary and host of the conference, Mrs Felicia Akua Agyeiwaa Mustapha, announced that out of the 420 women participating in the programme, 50 of them had been selected to empower them to higher levels of leadership. 

An 11-member committee was appointed with its President as Mrs Justine Atsu to lead them for the next three years.