Hail 2011: Year Of Breakthroughs(D/G, Monday January 3, 2011)

..........................................The Chairman of the Upper Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, Rev Esmond Wasau Nagba, asked Christians to lead Godly lives if Ghana is to progress and take its place among the developed nations, Benjamin Xornam Glover reports from Bolgatanga.“As we enter the new year, our responsibility as Christians should be to make an impact wherever we find ourselves as parents, husbands, workers, security persons, children, wives, politicians, among others. This is your responsibility and privilege as members of God’s church,” he said. Rev Nagba said this in a sermon on New Year’s Eve at the Peniel Congregation of the Presbyterian Church.“Our relationship with Jesus Christ should go beyond the walls of the church. We are to bring God’s presence in the places we find ourselves,” he said.He called on all Christians to eschew corruption, cheating and all other vices that went against the accelerated development of the country and rather reposition themselves to impact the land positively through their responsibilities to God.Some residents of Bolgatanga who spoke to the Daily Graphic were optimistic that things would be right in the new year.