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The Anglican Diocese of Accra is ready to make this year’s diocesan week celebration which is slated from 21st May to 28th May 2023.
This year’s celebration is on the theme GET TO KNOW YOUR DIOCESE focusing on who are as a diocese, what we believe in, the laws of the diocese, the pillars upon which the diocese rest on, who is the Diocesan, and what do the various people who support the diocese do.
In an exclusive interview with the Director of Programmes of the Anglican Diocese of Accra, Reverend Akua Ofori-Boateng on activities slated for the celebration, she shared that ‘’The week is going to kick off on the 21st of May and it will carry on through to the 28th of May so it’s Sunday to Sunday, we’re going to start the 21st of May is obviously the launch in all parishes where there’ll be announcements about what the theme is. With the theme, Get to know your diocese, members will get to understand the financial situation of the Diocese, how the diocese earns and how the diocese spends on Monday via the Morning Show on ADOA TV at 10:00am. It will be members of the finance team speaking about what we do as a diocese and how money is spent, and indeed throughout the diocese and we can throughout pretty much the rest of 2023 see various members of the Diocese and office the Director of Finance, myself the director of programs, the Director of International Relations, going around from parish to parish talking about what the diocese does, so that all of us have clarity on when we invest in the diocese. What does it mean for us, how do we earn, what is our return on investment as parishioners, when we put our monies, our interest and our energy into the diocese.
Rev’d Akua Ofori-Boateng – Director of Programmes, ADOA
On Tuesday we will be on the PM Show at 8pm on ADOA TELEVISON. This again is continuing to talk about the diocese, answering questions that have to do with the Constitution. With our financial situation, with the personality of the Diocese. You know one of the challenges we tend to have as a diocese is understanding the relationship between the diocese as a whole Anglican Diocese of Accra and the parishes, which one of them is a legally registered entity, who does the nation, Ghana recognize as the Anglican Diocese of Accra, is it your individual parishes? or is it the diocese? so these are some of the things we are going to address.
Then on Wednesday, which is the 24th of May, we are going to spend time with the youth. You know, the diocese is about the youth, in the absence of having a strong youth group, the AYPA, the youth and children’s ministry, we will struggle to have a future. So it is important that our youth know what the diocese is about, that the Constitution is readily at the fingertips of every youth so that when we go for vestry meetings or we go for PCC, when we are making decisions, when we are asked to bring money into the diocese, we have clarity on what it is we are doing and why we are doing it and we know what the future of the Diocese looks like. So, the time on Wednesday will be a youth program.
On Thursday we have the famous diocesan quiz and this year, we are going to be looking at the constitution. We are going to be looking at various aspects of Scripture but a key part of it will be looking at what the diocese does. We need to ensure that as members of this diocese, members of the Anglican diocese, we have clarity, what do we do as a diocese and we are going to be having this quiz at St. Mary The Virgin Anglican Church in Accra, it will be at 6pm and is going to be live on ADOA TV. So, make sure that you don’t miss it. We are going to find out those people who can really stand as future diocesan officials because they have clarity in their minds about who we are as a diocese and what we do.
The Anglican Diocese of Accra (ADOA)
Then on Friday, make sure that you are there for WASETENA MU TE SEN at 10:30am, we will be talking about the diocese.
Finally on Sunday, we crown it all with a Thanksgiving service at every single parish. I believe that on Sunday the 28th of May with all the activities that would have happened, with all the clarity, with all the questions answered, especially with regards to what is the return on investment for an Anglican who puts money into the diocese? What do we do with that money? Who does it benefit? How does it help to grow the church? and with all the different ideas and views that each of you will bring as parishioners I believe we have a lot to thank God for that this diocese has stood as long as it has stood and that all of us will be all the more united by the 28th of May, which also is the Feast of Pentecost.
It is my prayer that on that 28th day of May, which is also the day of Pentecost. That The Holy Spirit will pour out himself afresh on the Anglican Diocese of Accra. Then just like on that day of Pentecost even though they spoke different times but they all understood each other, that we as members of the Anglican Diocese of Accra with all our different giftings, with all our different views and opinions will come to a place where we truly understand each other that no more will we be divided over monies and the various issues that divide us as a diocese, but together on that Pentecost Sunday, given thanks to God we will move forward united as a diocese clear in our minds on who we are? where we stand? what we want to accomplish as a diocese and go forward thanking God, praising his name that His will be done in this diocese. God bless you.”
STORY BY: NAA ANYEMA COLLISON
