WHO TAKES OVER FROM MOST REV. TITUS AWOTWE PRATT?

    The Methodist Church in Ghana is scheduled to go for a Conference in August this year to elect a new Presiding Bishop. 

The Presiding Bishop is the head of the Church in the country and serves a six-year one term.

 However, the reigning Presiding Bishop, Most Reverend Titus Awotwe-Pratt will be retiring from active service upon the attainment of the mandatory 70 years. He served for three of the six years after his election at the Kumasi Conference in 2014. 

He however had to stay on till the August 2018 National Conference. Most Rev. Awotwe-Pratt took over from Most Rev. Professor Emmanuel Asante who served his full six-year term. 

Ministers of the Methodist Church, Ghana, will constitute the electoral College to vote on candidates who will be nominated by members within the college. 

In an interview with Garden City Radio at Ayigya in the Oforikrom Municipality of Ashanti, the current Presiding Bishop, Most Rev. Awotwe-Pratt said during the three years of his stewardship, the church has been able to establish about 200 new Societies of the Church in the country.

 It is in line with his administration’s goal code-named ‘Vision 2020’ to add 300 more societies to the church between 2016 and 2020. 

The focus has been the Volta region and the three regions of the north which had not been evangelized by the Church. Most Rev. Awotwe-Pratt said many Ministers, Lay Evangelists and Deacons have also been trained to spread the word of God. 

Additionally, the finances of the church has improved with certain hitherto administrative structures streamlined for the growth of the church. 

All these achievements, the Presiding Bishop noted, were possible as a result of the support and cooperation he earned from the rank and file of the church during the period.