Komenda, April 24, GNA - Rt. Rev. Issac K. Quansah, Bishop of the Cape Coast Diocese of the Methodist Church, on Thursday said the mission of the Church was to promote peace, joy, justice and high moral standards to help bring quality of life for all. "The actual presence of the Church must be felt in this nation of ours, at our social, political, economic and moral levels" he said adding that this would only be possible if Christians should demonstrate exemplarily responsible leadership whenever and wherever they found themselves to serve the nation.

Rt. Rev. Quansah said this when he opened the 47th annual synod of the Cape Coast Diocese of the church on the theme "Come Holy Spirit, empower your Church for mission", at Komenda. He said the church and the nation had neglected the Holy Spirit in its mission for far too long and both could depend on the Holy Spirit to achieve their mission of seeking good governance, quality education, job creation among others for its people.

The Bishop urged Christians to deny themselves and resist that which corrupts to facilitate the building of a better nation that is full of peace and love. He said it was unfortunate that people who are mismanaging and ripping the nation have now turned their dubious activities to churches and were mismanaging church funds and crippling its activities.

Rev. Quansah advised against making Church business nobody's business and said "that kind of attitude accounts for delay in completion of church projects which could have generated financial support of the churches." He appealed to Christians to live exemplary virtuous lives of honesty, trustworthy as civil servants or in private employment, fidelity in marriage and lead chaste lives as youth to be truthful Christians. On some of the achievements of the church, Rt. Rev. Quansah said, the church has now entered into moringa farming with over 2,500 moringa trees on six acres of land. He said moringa has been processed into soap, honey and medicines for sale to the public.