(Nsempa) - New Diocesan Bishops for Methodist Church

Nsempa Monday Oct 26, 2009 (Spread)

Story and Picture: Enoch Darfah Frimpong, Kumasi

The Methodist Church Ghana has inducted into office, four new Diocesan Bishops to help with the administration of the church in the Kumasi, Tema, Effiduase and Obuasi Dioceses.
The Presiding Bishop of the Church, Most Rev Professor Emmanuel Kwaku Asante performed the induction service for the new Bishops at the Wesley Cathedral in Adum-Kumasi today (Sunday)
The newly inducted Bishops who are to serve for a six-year term were Right Rev Osei Sarfo-Kantanka for Kumasi, Right Rev Moses Quayson for Effiduase, Right Rev Stephen Bosomtwi-Ayensu for Obuasi and Right Rev Winfred H.Y. Ametefe for Tema.
A fifth Diocesan Bishop for Wenchi, Right Rev Sampson Yamoah was also given recognition. Bishop Yamoah has ever served as a Diocesan Bishop at Tarkwa and the church has given him a second chance to serve at Wenchi.
Most Rev Prof Asante who presented the pastoral staff to the new Bishops in an induction sermon emphasized the need to place premium on the reliance on God for success.
He said success was not limited to material prosperity but it was defined by righteous living.
He therefore urged the new Bishops not to value material wealth and property at the expense of the reliance and “a walk with God”.
“What is material wealth without God”, he questioned and stressed that true wealth cannot be defined without the presence of God.
Most Rev Asante told the new Bishops that their position had nothing to do with wealth and prosperity but they should learn to depend on God always.
He said when that was done it will help to build the church and the nation
He tasked the church to put the past behind them and help support the new administration to move the church forward.