Grace Baptist Church donates to three institutions as part of Golden Jubilee
The Grace Baptist Church at Amakom in Kumasi has reached out to three needy institutions in the Kumasi Metropolis with benevolence worth Gh40,000.
The institutions include the Child and Baby Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, the Manhyia Local Prisons and the All Nations Charity Home at Ayigya.
They received cash donations and assorted food items, clothing, toiletries and confectionaries.
The Mother and Baby Unit received Gh5,000 cash to settle bills of patients who were still at the facility due to their inability to pay their bills.
A Senior Nursing Officer, Victoria Afrah, appreciated the donation, saying it would help alleviate the financial burden of the mothers and help ease congestion at the facility.
Senior Pastor at the Grace Baptist Church, Reverend Robert Asante, speaking at the presentation events, explained the gesture is in line with the church’s corporate social responsibility to support the needy in society.
The donations also form part of activities marking the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the church.
Rev. Asante said reaching out to the needy is a divine call which must be exercised by all to relieve the plight of people who find themselves in unfortunate conditions.
After the presentation at the Manhyia Local Prison, the church members spent time to fellowship with inmates and officers of the prison.
Second in Command at the Manhyia Prison, Chief Superintendent Patrick Seidu, commended the leadership of Grace Baptist Church for the gesture.
He described the intervention as timely since the institution is deprived of some basic necessities to enhance the proper upkeep of the 230 inmates.
He appealed to other individuals, faith-based organizations and philanthropist to emulate the gesture by the Baptist church.
This he noted will complement government’s effort at providing the needs of the inmates.