Konongo-Odumase (Ash), Sept. 3, GNA - The 48th Annual National Conference of the Women's Fellowship of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), is underway at Konongo-Odumase Senior High School in the Asante Akim North Municipality.

The weeklong conference, which is on the theme: 93Empowered by the Holy Spirit" is being attended by delegates drawn from all the 10 regions of Ghana.

Mr Kofi Opoku-Manu, the Ashanti Regional Minister in a speech read for him at the opening of the conference commended the leadership for sustaining the motive for the establishment of the Fellowship over the years.

He said such gathering provided avenue for re-examining their roles as mothers in society and to adopt measures that would enhance the work of the Church.

He expressed the hope that the conference would be used to discuss matters affecting not only the Church but also the state with the view of helping government to prosecute its Better Ghana Agenda.

Mr Opoku-Manu noted that the level of moral decadence among the youth must engage the attention of such an important congregation of mothers.

"Our time-tested values of respect for the elderly, hard work, among others are virtually giving way to foreign cultures, which seem to be threatening the very survival of this nation", the minister added.

Rt. Rev. Dr Yaw Frimpong-Manso, the out-going Moderator of the Church said the role of the Women's Fellowship could not be compared to any other group in the Church's 182 years of existence.

He reminded them that people in their communities were looking up to them as their mentors and therefore urged them to exhibit good leadership qualities.

He encouraged women in the Church to take up leadership roles since they constituted the majority of the various congregations.