By: Gloria Anderson
Residents of Kumasi including children and the vulnerable in society have benefited from free health screening and free NHIS registration organized by the Missionettee wing of the Women‘s Ministry of the Assemblies of God Ghana as part of giving back to society.
Participants were taken through general medical examination, including blood pressure, and sugar levels and those found with diseases were treated while others were referred to hospitals for further medical treatments. They also counseled on the need to lead good healthy lifestyles to help prolong their lives.
The event coincided with the first national Missionette sponsors and Mentors Conference held in Kumasi as part of the Church’s Corporate Social Responsibility and was aimed at bringing quality healthcare to the doorsteps of the people in and around the Kumasi Community.
Mrs Monica Wengam, First Lady of Assemblies of God and National Advisor to the Women Ministry called on all to stand firm for children especially the girl child, ‘’training and equipping them to position her to be a generational leader with a difference’’.
She urged the mentors and sponsors to train girls to win souls and help them to be women of substance.
“We must prepare them to be great mother’s, supportive wife’s and competent, religious, business and political leaders. We must bridge the young developmental gaps between the boys and the girls.”
Assemblies of God describes teachers who train girls as Mentors because the church believes these teachers are mentoring the young girls to be more than them. She encouraged leaders, Pastors and all church workers for their dedication and assured that the church under its new leader, Rev Stephen Wengam is pursuing a transformational agenda which will rebrand the church and called for the cooperation of every member.
“Also, we will rebrand our department, Ministries to attract more people to join especially unbelievers.”
National Missionettee Organizer, Ps. Mrs Esther Oduro Dwumo said the national conference was organized to equip sponsors and mentors on the best methods of training young girls in this technological era to meet their needs.
“The real missionettees we’re going down and also, we needed rebranding and packaging the whole thing. Rev Wengam has been saying that we need transformation we need to put a lot of things together so we decided to come together carry ourselves build ourselves.
This is a national rally we’ve got all the regions coming. it’s kind of a modern capacity building to teach sponsors the modern way of establishing the girls in the system and also bringing on new members to attract them so that those in the world would want to join us. We need to let them know that we don’t do things the way we use to anymore, there are new things that we have to bring on board.”
She noted that the national executives of Missionettee also gave all 24 regional Organizers bibles to be shared with the girls as an evangelism tool.
A total of one thousand children and aged were registered for free with the NHIS.
The residents who were all filled with gladness for the services they received, expressed their appreciation to the leadership of the ministry, as well as the health personnel for the kind gesture extended to them.
