SYNOD COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE INDUCTED

The Synod Committee Executive (SCE) of the Global Evangelical Church (GEC) has been inducted into office to serve for the next four years from January 2012.
The new Synod Committee Executive is made up of the Moderator, Rt. Rev. Dr. E. K. Tettey, the Synod Clerk, Rev. P. Y. Tefe, the Male Presbyter, Prof. R. K. Adosraku and the Female Presbyter, Prof. (Mrs.) V. P. Dzogbefia.Rt. Rev. Dr. Tettey succeeds Very Rev. Dr. E.K. Gbordzoe, Immediate Past Moderator, who served for eight years. The induction ceremony held at the Great Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science 

and Technology (KNUST) was described by many as solemn, moving and historic. It was officiated by Very Rev. Dr. Gbordzoe, Rev. Prof. Elom Dovlo, Immediate Past Director of Studies of the Church, and Rev. Dr. S.K. Ofori, Immediate Past Synod Clerk.
The new Moderator, the Synod Clerk, the Male and Female Presbyters on the Executive have all served in Kumasi. Rt. Rev. Dr. Tettey until his election as the Moderator had been a lecturer at the Department of Publishing Studies of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Before his election to the office of Synod Clerk in 2007 for his first term, Rev. Tefe, who is now in his second

term on the SCE, was Pastor of the Anloga-Kumasi congregation of the Global Evangelical Church. Prof. Adosraku and Prof. (Mrs.) Dzogbefia are currently lecturers at the Departments of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Biochemistry respectively of KNUST. 
Congratulating the Executive in his fraternal greetings, the Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Prof. William Otoo Ellis, said he was certain the Global Evangelical Church had elected a “formidable team made up of individuals with proven administrative, intellectual and spiritual capabilities.” “This University and its Christian fraternity are therefore proud of having the 

privilege of seeing these illustrious sons and daughter of this institution and of the Lord attain such greatness,” he said, urging the Executive to look up to Christ as their guide.   
The Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC) in its fraternal greetings signed by Apostle Samuel Yaw Antwi, General Secretary of the Council, on behalf of the National Executive Council, lauded Rt. Rev. Dr. Tettey for his selfless service to the Church and his transformational leadership in society. The Council prayed for multiplication and growth in his administration, calling on GEC to make its presence in the Council felt strongly. There were goodwill messages from the Children, Youth, Women and Men Ministries as well as from the foreign branches of the Church, who congratulated the team and pledged their support for the new administration of the Church.TheChildren Ministry was grateful to the Lord for how far He has brought the Church.“The Ministry…believes that with your administrative and organizational skills coupled with the grace and empowerment of the Holy Spirit, you will propel this great Church and the Ministry to a higher level in the next four (4) years,” it said.The Youth Ministry urged the Executive to work assiduously to lift the image of the Church from its current state to another level. “May the Bible be your guide in everything that you do. We admonish you to be strong and courageous. Meditate on the word of God day and night…then you will be successful,” the message read.The Women Ministry said they saw the election of the Executive as divine, “for it is the Lord who ordains leaders. We pray the Good Lord will grant you the Wisdom of Solomon in the discharge of your duties.” The Men Ministrylooked forward to seeing ‘tremendous impartation’ upon the lives of the Executive, asking God to be the lifter up of their heads. “It is our prayer that the Lord directs your paths, and you will not lack….Together we will help to create a Church of God’s heart in Jesus’ name,” the Ministry said.The UK branch believed the Church has made major strides, and was confident the Lord would grant the leadership wisdom to move the Church to a higher dimension. “May the Holy Spirit guide you as you embark on moderating the affairs of our great Church,”they said. Welcoming the new Executive on board, the Church in Norway believed the new “Moderator and his able executives have been strategically elected by the Lord to carry on the vision, especially in the area of aggressive international evangelism and Church planting in the Diaspora.”From New York, USA, the Church prayed that “the Holy Spirit through whom all things are possible” directs, guides and leads “us to greater heights in the Lord,” calling on the entire Church to lend “the needed support that can move the Church to a higher level of grace.” 

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