THE Kumasi Chaplaincy Board has intensified its outreach programme on evangelism in second cycle schools within the Kumasi metropolis and its environs, as a way of influencing students to adopt Godly lifestyles and morally upright attitudes.
This, according to the board, would enable students to become responsible adults in future.
The programme is also intended to influence students for them to interact positively with their peers to reduce the level of indiscipline that has characterised the youth in particular and society in general.
The Chairman of the KCB, Rev Oscar Amoah, who announced this during a media encounter in Kumasi, said the level of indiscipline that had permeated society had created a serious challenge to the church.
The programme was part of the launch of the 50th anniversary of the KCB, on the theme “transforming society through effective school Ministry: The role of Kumasi Chaplaincy Board”.
Rev Amoah who is also the Chaplain of the Kumasi Anglican Senior High School, noted that “our failure to mould and shape the youth who are future leaders of society will spell doom for the nation in the very near future”.
Explaining, he said “the rate of indiscipline and crime committed among the young generation has escalated, and is still increasing. Our society can now has more criminals than ever, and we are concerned about the unfortunate trend of affairs”.
He said concrete steps should be taken to address the level of indiscipline among the youth before it exploded into a chaotic situation that could undermine the survival of the country.
The school ministry, he said “concerns itself with carrying out the work of God in schools to take care of the spiritual and moral lives of the school community which will eventually impact positively on their academic and social lives” .
Explaining, he said the ministry involved the school community in the preaching of the word of God, praying for them and addressing their spiritual, emotional and other needs.
He said “an untrained child of today will destroy his future and that of others”.
He pointed out that apart from not fully appreciating what adolescence meant “peer pressure and the desire to experiment with a number of things expose their minds to a barrage of issues”.
He said there were also problems of conflict with parents “who are seen by these young ones as ‘not understanding’ and being domineering, the breakdown of family values, coupled with poor inter personal relationship between parents and their children”
These problems, he said resulted in “waywardness, drug abuse, alcoholism, gambling, sexual immorality , gangsterism, among other vices”.
Rev Fr Amoah said “the craze to become rich overnight, Internet fraud, occultism and other ritual means, popularly known as ‘sakawa’ , has also become widespread in recent times”.
He said the school ministry which was seen to be very strategic did not only complement and consolidate the efforts of the school authority in instilling discipline among students, but also “promote good spiritual and moral lives” stressing that “ the KCB is very convinced that society can be transformed through effective preaching of the Gospel of Christ”.
He called on the public to support the KCB in kind and in cash to enable it to sustain the outreach programme.
Apart from operating from the office of the Scripture Union, he said the KCB also “depends on voluntary contributions from preaching groups of the board which does not own a means of transport to facilitate its operations” and therefore appealed for support in that endeavour.
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