The Superintendent Minister of the Airport East Circuit of the Methodist Church, Very Rev. Solomon T. Nortey, has encouraged the church to leverage technology for the purposes of winning souls for Christ which is the main mission of Christendom.
Technology or the internet , he said , has brought about vast visual realism, making it possible for millions across the oceans and time to gather and learn about Christ and the Church can no longer stand aside of this transformation.
Very Rev. Solomon Nortey said technology has come to amplify the voice of the Church with its virtual environment but cautioned that care must be taken in the application of technology on social media and other digital platforms in order not to dilute or pollute the word.
He was speaking at the 4th Annual Memorial Lecture in honour of the late Prof. Kwame Esiboa de Graft-Johnson organised by the Association of Methodist Men’s Fellowship of the Airport East Circuit of the Methodist Church Ghana held at the Kwesi Dickson Memorial Methodist (KDM), Adjiringanor Accra on Friday as part of the Men’s Week celebration of the Church.
The topic for the lecture was: ‘Presence, Participation and Place: The Role of Men In Recovering the Theology and Praxis of Church Gathering In a Digitally Dispersed World’.
Prof. de Graft-Johnson who died at the age of 95 years in 2022, represented the Christian Council of Ghana for several years and onetime Chair of its Programmes Advisory Committee.
He served the Government of Ghana including the chairmanship of the Commission of Enquiry into the Land Tenure system in Ghana in 1967.
In his remarks, the Special Guest at the Lecture, Rt Rev. Andrew Mbaeh-Baiden, Bishop of the Northern Accra Diocese of the Methodist Church Ghana, urged men of the Church to let their presence be felt as they were created by God ‘to lead and set the tone at home, in the society, the nation and at Church’.
He said it was not enough for men to ‘just to show up as Christ does not need passive men worshippers’ and that it is the presence and participation of men which fixes what is broken and brings peace and development.
Very Rev. Yaw Addai-Yeboah, Minister-In-Charge of the KDM, extolled the virtues of Prof. K.E. de-Graft-Johnson, a Founding member and first Chairman of the Immanuel Methodist Men’s Fellowship, in the Regimanuel Gray Estate and a Professor and once Head of the Sociology Department of the University of Ghana.
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Mr Kweku Amoako Atta de Graft-Johnson, retired Research Scientist, on behalf of the de-Graft-Johnson family expressed gratitude to the Airport East Circuit Men’s Fellowship and the Church for instituting the annual lectures to honor the memory of the late Professor.
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