Abokobi (GAR), 13 Sept. GNA - Thirty church leaders were on Saturday presented with certificates, after undertaking a three year course in Family Life Education and Techniques in Counselling. The programme, which brought together 118 participants from member churches of the Christian Council of Ghana (CCG), was organised by the CCG.

It involves the training of counsellors from member churches, who take the course in only a week of every year for three years. Fifteen others, who were inducted for the course, were also presented with certificates as a form of recognition and acceptance by the CCG.

Addressing the participants on Saturday, Reverend Ama Afo Blay, who was the chairperson for the occasion, praised the graduates for endeavouring to take the course and urged them to encourage other counsellors to do so.

"I will also urge you to impart unto others all that you have learnt so that your churches could be encouraged to sponsor more councillors," she said.

In a message read on his behalf, Mr Fred Deegbe, General Secretary of the CCG said, family life formed the foundation of the every church and should therefore be solidly built.

He said recent happening indicated that "the church had come under severe attack from the evil one" hence the need for more education on how to save families from such attacks by the enemy. He appealed to the graduates to read more, to enable them to have an insight into Family Life Education and Counselling Skills. Enumerating on the course, Madam Joyce Steiner, Programmes Manager of the CCG said, in the first year of the training, participants are taken through Family Life Education, while in the second year they get tutorials in Basic Skills in Counselling and in the final year, training in advanced form of Family Education and Case Study.