By: Jennifer Frimpong Wiredu
Six years after a devastating fire outbreak at the SDA church ministers parsonage at Akokofoto, a new-story building has been handed over to replace the house that was destroyed by the fire at Dansoman in Accra. The dedication was made by the Accra Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
The three-story building will serve as an accommodation for the Church’s pastors and their families.
The Dansoman building is one of several infrastructures the church is undertaking across Accra.
The aim is to reduce accommodation-related issues for the Church’s pastors and also offer them a befitting place for their families to reside.
During the handing-over ceremony, the President of the Accra City Conference of the SDA, Dr. Solomon OKoe Trebi Hammond emphasized that the building will also help church members to locate their leaders easily and provide the necessary assistance without any hindrance.
The Church has about 60 pastors in the Greater Accra region.
With the facility in place, the church has now moved closer to providing adequate accommodation for all 60 of them.
The Estate and Project Officer, Accra City Conference of the SDA, Mattew Donkor, says the parsonage will help the church save as much as two-point four million cedis annually on rent.
He said the church will replicate the same at different locations to help bridge the accommodation deficit for its pastors in Accra.
Some beneficiary pastors who spoke to GBC News were happy about the initiative and were optimistic that it would serve its full course.
The new building has advanced features that makes it more secure for settlement than before. It has eight-unit apartments to house eight different families.
