Videos: Church, NGO support the Beads of Life Orphanage

Fire Trinity Ministry International (FTMI) , in partnership with George Amoako Alhassan Foundation (GAAF), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), have brought smiles to the inmates of the Beads of Life Orphanage at New Koforidua in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality of the Ashanti Region.

The gesture forms part of the church’s social responsibility to climax its annual 40 days fasting and prayer festival, and also to mark first anniversary celebration of the organization. It is also to reduce the woes of the vulnerable inmates at the orphanage.

Assorted items worth GH¢25,,000 were donated to the inmates .Among the donated items were bags of rice, bags of sugar, gallons of cooking oil, toiletries, biscuits, toffees and pastries.

Others included boxes of soap, detergents, used clothes, educational materials, foot wears, loaves of bread as well as an undisclosed amount of cash in an envelope.

Presenting the items to the home, General Overseer of the church, Apostle Dr. George Amoako Alhassan, who doubles as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GAAF, said the donation was the eleventh in a series of such live made to the inmates of the home.

According to the clergyman, he was inspired by the biblical injunction to care for the poor and vulnerable in society, while pledging the church’s and the organization’s continuous support for the children.

“The kind of fasting I want is this: remove the chains of oppression and the yoke of injustice, and let the oppressed go free. Share your food with the hungry and open your homes to the homeless poor. Give clothes to those who have nothing to wear, and do not refuse to help your own relatives,” he quoted the book of Isaiah 58:6-7,

He urged other religious bodies, corporate organisations and philanthropists to support orphanages. “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world ,” he said.referencing the book of James 1:27.

He commended his donor partners both in Ghana and the Diaspora for their support, praying for God’s blessings for them.

Receiving the items, the director of the orphanage, Doris Agyemang, commended the church and GAAF for their love, and promised to use the items judiciously for the benefit of the children.

He also appealed to well-meaning individuals and organisations to emulate the kind gesture of the church and the organisation.