Methodist University College Receives Support

The Methodist Development Fund (MDF) which was established two years ago has made GH¢600,000 available to the Methodist University College for infrastructural expansion.

The Most Rev. Professor Emmanuel Asante, the Presiding Bishop of the church, who disclosed this said the introduction of the fund in August 2008 has strengthened the church’s finances for accelerated growth.

In a message at a special church service at the Wesley Methodist Church at Old Tafo in Kumasi to create awareness about the fund, Rev. Asante said it was specifically established to promote education, construction of health and other social infrastructure as well as evangelism and investment activities of the church.

He said members of the church had voluntarily been making monthly contributions towards the fund and encouraged all to help ensure its success.

Before the MDF was introduced, he said the church was supporting the university with 30 per cent of its harvest contributions every year, and that it was to ensure its sustainability that the church at its conference in Winneba in August 2008 designated the third and fourth Sunday of November every year as MDF awareness day, to be celebrated throughout the country.

He said there should not be any illusion that the MDF could give tremendous relief to the church in terms of meeting its financial obligations.

Rev. Asante said a manse for the Presiding Bishop had been built with resources from the MDF.

Preaching the sermon, the Right Rev. Professor Osei Sarfo Kantanka, the Kumasi Diocesan Bishop of the Methodist Church, said there was the need to intensify the mobilisation of funds for the Diocese, saying Christians must cultivate the habit of giving in order to access the blessings of God.

By giving, he said “you open the way for showers of blessing while also helping the church to pursue its programmes of caring for the needy and also in the pursuit of evangelism.”