Church of Pentecost partnering Prisons Service to transform lives of prisoners-COP Chair

The Chairman of the Church of Pentecost (COP), Apostle Eric Nyamekye, says the Church is  partnering authorities of the Ghana Prisons Service to transform the lives of prisoners in  various prisons across  the country.
Apostle Eric Nyamekye mentioned that this move by the Church of Pentecost forms part of a five-year strategic vision of the church, dubbed “Vision 2023”, with the overarching theme: “Possessing the Nations: Equipping the church to transform every sphere of society with values and principles of the Kingdom of God.
Speaking on Atinka TV’s “Ghana Nie” with host Nana Owusu Nkrumah, Apostle Eric Nyamekye said the Church’s decision to construct correctional facilities across the country is to decongest the crowded prisons, and not to encourage crime.
He said the correctional centers would have church auditoriums that would contribute to the reformation of the inmates.
Apostle Nyamekye explained that as part of the strategic approaches adopted by the Church to realize ”vision 2023,”  COP partnered government to undertake some social intervention initiatives which include the construction of prison facilities.
According to him, as a church, COP is in the business of seeking and saving sinners including prisoners.
“The Nsawam Medium Security Prison, I am told, was built for 800 inmates, but currently houses close to 3,500 inmates. That is an excess of about 2,700 inmates. If as a church, we can put up very big and magnificent auditoriums, which we only use on Sunday mornings and in the evenings and look on unconcerned as our brothers and sisters struggle to find a place to lay their heads, then what kind of followers of Jesus Christ are we?” he added.
The Church of Pentecost is building five settlement camp prisons for the Ghana Prisons Service to help decongest the country’s prisons.
The new facilities are located in Obuasi and Ejura in the Ashanti Region, Nsawam in the Eastern Region, Hawia in the Western Region, and Kenyasi in the Ahafo Region.
In the wake of covid-19, the Church of Pentecost has among other things availed its Pentecost Convention Center to be used as Isolation Center.
Ghana has 1279 covid-19 cases with 10 deaths and 134 recoveries.
 
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