Hohoe (V/R), Aug. 30, GNA - Reverend Frank Anku, out-going Synod Clerk of Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana, on Friday explained that the quest to assume a General Assembly (GA) status was to re-align the administrative set-up of the Church to fit into international standards.

He said the Church remained the only institution in Anglophone international circles to still operate at the Synod level. Rev Anku was briefing delegates of the National Congress of the Evangelical Presbyterian Students' Union (EPSU) on highlights of the 67th Synod, held in Ho recently. He said under the new dispensation, Synod Committee or Cabinet of the Church has changed to become the Council with the Presbyteries becoming the Synod instead.

Rev Anku said the Moderator of the Church, Synod Clerk and Presbyter Executive (PE) would now be known as Moderator of the GA, Clerk of the GA and PE of the GA respectively. He said the difference between what pertained previously and the new status was in the area of nomenclature rather than suitability in the international Anglophone sector. Rev Anku said his tenure and that of the Moderator would tentatively end on December 31, this year and that the Moderator-elect and Synod Clerk-elect would be inducted on January 11, 2009 at the Dela Cathedral.

He urged the youth to patronize the E. P. University College to improve their academic standing, adding that this was the gesture to crystallize the value of youth development in the Church towards nation building. Rev Anku commended the Church and other stakeholders for their cooperation, which made it possible for them to complete their stewardship. 30 Aug. 08