Tema, Jan. 1, GNA -Christians in the Tema Metropolis, last night took part in watch-night church services, as part of activities to usher in the New Year.

The services offered the worshippers the opportunity to have sober reflections about their lives and to make resolutions to a chart new course in 2010.

In a New Year Message at the St. Andrew Methodist Church at Community Two, Reverend Francesca Busumtwi-Sam, Minister in charge of the Church underscored the need for Christians to enter the new year with a sense of love, peace and unity.

Rev. Busumtwi-Sam asked them to be obedient to God and to authority, in order to receive God's choicest blessings from the most high. At the Upper Room Assembly at Community Five, Bishop Beatrice Hedidor, Head of the Congregation, asked Christians to re-dedicate themselves to the service of God in 2010.

Bishop Hedidor called on Christians to lead pure and upright lives worthy of emulation.

Rev. Frederick Andoh, District Pastor of the Greenwich Meridian Church of Pentecost, urged Christians to forgive one another. At the Global Evangelical Church at Community Four, Rev. Samuel Yao Kwami, asked Christians to show love and compassion to their neighbours. Bishop Appiah Kubi, Head of the Tema Central United Bethel Pentecostal Ministry, asked Ghanaians to do away with negative and divisive tendencies. Bishop Kubi reminded them that the nation could only develop and progress if they become each other's keeper.

The occasion was used to say special prayers for peace and stability in the country.