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COMMITTEES & BOARDS

The Church has set up the under listed 14 organs to offer technical advice and direction on specific aspects of the Church's administration. Members are experts in their various fields and, in the main, are about seven or nine on each committee or board.
They meet periodically in the year and hold annual general meetings once a year in which they report on their work and advice the General Council on issues involving their specific terms of reference.

Board of Trustees: Responsible for the securing of the church's landed property and historical documents.

Finance Board: Administers the Church's general funds, prepares and submits annual budgets to the Church's General Council and ensures an effective audit regimen for the Church.

PENTSOS Board: Oversees the initiation, promotion, development and management of the social services of the Church and advises the Church in matters relating to social services in the country.

Missions Board: Responsible for the creation and oversight for external missions areas, and their needs.

Pensions Board: Responsible for the general welfare of retired ministers and their widows, their wives and children under 18 years of age.

Press Board: Advises on all issues relating to the commercial functions of the Pentecost Press Limited as well as the development and progress of the press and its staff.

Editorial Board: Advises the Executive Council on and supervises publishing of the Church's diaries, calendars and Pentecost Fire.

Ministerial Committee: Interviews and recommends prospective students for ministerial training.

Estates Committee: Gives technical advice on the construction of major buildings of the Church as well as on matters pertaining to the documenting and securing of such buildings, among others.

Bible Centre Committee: Responsible for the development of courses and progress of faculty, staff and students of the Bible Institute.

Music Committee: Records, develops and protects songs and hymns given to the Church by divine inspiration.

Radio Ministry Committee: Develops gospel messages for radio, writes and distributes tracts and counsels seekers.


Literature Committee: Vets, edits and recommends Church literature and independent publications of ministers of the Church for approval of the Executive Council.

CHURCH MOVEMENTS

The membership of the Church has been categorised into five groups to enhance effective mobilisation towards given goals. Four of the groups, classified as movements, are headed by directors, while the fifth, headed by a National Leader, is classified as a fellowship. The groups are:

Witness Movement: This is the main evangelistic wing of the Church and embraces all able-bodied members of the Church. It meets once a week on Tuesdays and holds general/regional conventions once every three years. Some of the tools employed by this movement are rallies, conventions, crusades, personal evangelism, campaigns and Holy Ghost baptism sessions and training seminars.

Women's Movement
The movement embraces all the womenfolk of the Church from about 15 years of age and above to whom it imparts home management and vocational skills as well as responsible Christian behaviour. Like the Witness Movement, this movement also employs seminars, retreats, conventions and workshops in providing the necessary education for young and adult women to become responsible wives, church leaders and social workers and public servants.

Youth Ministry
The Youth Ministry is open to members of Church between 13 and 40 years. Its aim is to inculcate Christian leadership skills in the youth. Members

meet once a week on Mondays. A segment of the ministry, known as Pentecost Students and Associates (PENSA), meets in tertiary institutions while an association of PENSA groups is known as ITI-PENSA, or Inter-Tertiary Institutions PENSA. Included in the ministry's activities are camp meetings, Bible quizzes, seminars, games, music festivals, excursions and ITI conferences.

Children's Movement
This movement exists to, in line with the biblical injunction, train the child in the way he should grow. The movement groups the children into three age groups to enhance effective teaching. The groupings are 4 to 6; 7 to 9; and 10 to 12 years. Topics treated include (i) Salvation, (ii) Worship, (iii) Prayer/Fasting, (iv) The Holy Spirit, (v) Recitations and Memory Verses, (vi) Bible characters, retreats, etc.

The Children's Movements meets on Sunday mornings before adult services and organises National Children's Day activities in September, each year.

Pentecost Men's Fellowship (PEMEF)
It is the youngest group in the Church and seeks to organise the men folk into responsible family, church, social and public leaders. The movement
organised its first leaders' conference at the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, in August 2000, which was attended by over 700 delegates from all over Ghana. PEMEF meets twice a month on Saturdays.

OFFICERS

THE FOLLOWING COMPRISE THE PRESBYTERY AND THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE ASSEMBLY.

1. Elder Samuel Ankomah Presiding Elder
2. Elder Martin Antwi Secretary
3. Elder George Nyarko Fin. Secretary
4. Elder Jones Frimpong-Baafi
5. Elder Samuel Asante
6. Elder Paul Osei
7. Elder Kenneth Lewis
8. Elder Samuel Asante


DEACONS & DEACONESSES

1. Deacon Edward Gyamfi
2. Deacon Dickson Ampofo
3. Deacon Osei Kofi
4. Deacon Philip Nuamah
5. Deacon Samuel Bamfo
6. Alexander Amponsah
7. Deaconess Mina Opoku-Nyarko
8. Deaconess Elizabeth-Aboraah
9. Deaconess Cecilia Gyamfuah
10. Deaconess Matilda Nyarko
11. Grace Boampong
12. Victoria Quist
13. Victoria Osei
14. Deaconess Rose Agyei
15. Deaconess Diana Bartels
16. Margaret Ankomah

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