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The World Community Churches International building
The World Community Churches International building

Accra Compost MD builds chapel

The Managing Director of the Accra Compost and Recycling Plant (ACARP), Rev. Dr Richard Amponsah, last Sunday saw his long-cherished dream of building a house for the Lord fulfilled, as the first church building of the World Community Churches International (WCCI) was dedicated to God.

He was supported by many well-known men of God, including the world-renowned Evangelist Dr Lawrence Tetteh and Prophet Christopher Yaw Annor of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), to unveil a plaque and dedicate the temple to God.

Speaking to the media after the dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony, Dr Amponsah said it had been his dream to build a church for God to show appreciation to Him for the blessings He had bestowed on him and his family.

“I put some things before the Lord and one of the things that I vowed to God was that God if You do all these things for me I am going to build a house for You and so the motivation was the fact that God has been so gracious to me and everything that I asked God to do in my life He has done it and I also had to do my bit,” he said.

He attributed all his successes in life to the grace and blessings of God and said that was what informed his decision to put up a church building in every community in the world where people could also worship God.

Dr Amponsah said through the help of God, he and other partners had been able to transform the lives of many people who had gone wayward at Tantra Hills where the church is sited.

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 The Tantra Hills church auditorium, which has a seating capacity of 700, currently seats about 300 congregants.

 Some of the clergy before the dedication of the church. They are (from right) Dr Lawrence Tetteh, Prophet Christopher Annor, Dr Richard Amponsah (3rd left), Founder of the WCCI.

Dr Amponsah indicated that he could not place a cost on the auditorium, since it took five years to build, with the support of his family and some friends who shared in his vision.

Explaining his concept of community churches, he said “they are churches that interact effectively with the community. Community churches mingle with communities and community churches go to homes within church environs; ask people about their challenges and share with them the word of God”.

Collective responsibility

Lauding Dr Amponsah for founding the WCCI and dedicating a church building to God, Dr Tetteh said: “We have a collective responsibility to build the nation. It is not about politicians or the clergy or society. The whole of Ghana has a collective responsibility where we have a united front.”

Stressing the significance of the deed by Dr Amponsah, he said: “Come this December, you will see politicians going to church. People who have never been to church before will go to church because there is no gainsaying that the church is the most organised body in the nation and if there is any community that has given to the nation, it is the church.”

“Every politician in Ghana, as well as all classes of people, has drunk from the church so we need to be mindful of that and see how we can all stand with the church to grow because it is through the church that some of us have come to where we are today.”

 

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