INTRODUCTION
By the Lord’s Grace the challenge of having adequate space to cater for members during Sunday services and other special occasions is no more. We now worship at the basement of the uncompleted chapel, Hallelujah. May the name of the Lord be praised.

The church also continues to grow numerically. Our prayer is that the Good Lord will help us complete the chapel.

OFFICERS IN THE CONGREGATION
1. Rev. Anokye Nkansah - Minister in charge
2. Ms. Beatrice Yirenkyi - Catechist
3. Ms. Josephine Nyarko - Director of Finance
4. Ms. Augustina Ankomah - Session Clerk
5. Mr. F.A. Osafo Affum - Senior Presbyter

SOCIAL SERVICES HEADS
Mrs Gladys Amoako Yirenkyi – Head teacher, Presbyterian Primary School
(Junior School).

NUMBER OF PRESBYTERS - 14 (fourteen)

STATISTICS
Children under 12 years

Junior.Y (12-17 years)

Y.P.G. (18-35 years)

Adults (Above 35 years)

CHURCH DEPARTMENTS

CHURCH LIFE AND NURTURE

A) CHILDREN’S MINISTRY

There are four teachers and two attendants. Students from P.T.C have been helping during children’s services.
The children participated in all activities on the children’s calendar. The Minister and session sponsored all programmes and activities.

i. Children’s Week Celebration
The congregation as well as the children attended the weeklong activity.
CAMP 2004: This was held at Okuapemman School. Six children attended. Four girls and two boys.

ii. Finances
The minister and session have met all our financial needs. Other people have also been helping us with other things.

iii. Graduation
Twelve children were graduated from children service to J.Y. They were nine girls and three boys.

iv. Membership
The children service consists of 112 girls and 58 boys totalling 170. It is important to note that one of the teachers has been elected as the Akuapem Presbytery Children’s Ministry President

B) YOUTH MINISTRY
The Youth Ministry consists of the Junior Youth (JY) and the Young People’s Guild (YPG)
I. Conferences and Meetings Members participated fully in all meetings and conferences held under the year of review.

II. Youth And Students’ Week
The group was part of this year’s Youth and Students’ Week. The youth
participated in a musical show organised by the P.T.C NUPS-g, prayer and football games. The group won the football and volleyball games.

III. Christofest
The youth participated fully in the Christofest organised by the Presbytery.

IV. Half night
The group organised two half nights during the period under review.

V. Visitation
The group visited the Boti and Akaa falls.

VI. Marriages: Two marriages were recorded during the year

VII. Problems
a) Attendance at meetings is not encouraging.
b) There are a lot of members in the youth age bracket who do not want to be part of the Y.P.G
c) Difficulty of payment of dues.

VIII. Projections
1. To promote evangelism through games.
2. To establish an income generating venture to beef up the income of the group and also to give employment to the youth.

B) WOMEN’S MINISTRY
The women’s Fellowship is the only group under the women’s ministry. Numerical strength stands at fifty- eight (58) with fifty - three (53) as regular members. There is an increase of sixteen (16) members over last year’s number. May the name of the Lord be praised.

Out of the 58, 48 are communicants and efforts are being made to draw the 10 who are non-communicants to the Lords trade.

1. Finance:
The group has seven hundred thousand cedis (ø700, 000.00) at the G.C.B, Akropong and as the time of writing of this report an amount of sixty thousand cedis (ø60, 000.00) at hand.

2. Activities
a) Prayer meetings.
b) Talk on diets, health and taking proper care of the body.
c) Visited the sick, prayed for them and donated cash and in kind to them.
d) Learnt out to make pomade, powder etc. Some were sold and the monies accruing were added to group finance.
e) Excursion to the Aburi Botanical Gardens.

3. Challenge
How to organise programs that would involve the other women who are not members of the women’s fellowship.

C) MEN’S MINISTRY
1. Men’s Fellowship
The Presbytery and District Executives inaugurated the group on 20th June 2004. Present was the Minister in Charge Rev. Anokye Nkansah.

2. Membership
The Membership strength of the Fellowship rose from 20 in 2003 to 30 in 2004. Two members have so far left for further studies but continue to the join the group, as when they are in town, we are glad to say that we have not lost any member.

3. Activities
The fellowship celebrates and observes all programmes of the church as prescribed on the almanac, as well as those of the men’s Fellowship, National, Presbytery and District.

This years men’s week celebration was celebrated and proceeds have accordingly been dispatched.

The Fellowship also helped to sponsor the zone representative to this year’s National Annual delegate’s conference held at Nsaba and paid all its dues as required.

The group meets every Sunday after forenoon service and evenings when required.

Members are involved in every sphere of church life: worship, youth ministry and most especially fund raising and construction of the church building.

Visitations to disabled and sick members are also well taken care of. We believe strongly that the group is both spiritually and physically strong.

4. Finance
The fellowship raises its finances from membership dues of 3,000 cedis per month and other voluntary contribution. A free will offertory as also taken at every meeting to meet the welfare needs of its members. Other sources of income are from Men’s week celebrations, and this year from the inauguration. The fellowship has a credit balance of over 2 million cedis and has begun the process of opening an account with Ghana Commercial Bank to lodge it.

5. Projections
The Fellowship will evaluate it’s activities and put in place action plans to strengthen it and make it into a more dynamic force in the day to day activities of the church and to equip its members with entrepreneur skills and encourage credit schemes and partnership commercial venture to help them to be financially strong. The Fellowship also intends to have amore effective mechanism to help the Youth Ministry to stand solidly on its feet and direct their leisure into productive areas

D) CHURCH CHOIR
1. Membership
The choir has a total membership of 25; 18 females and 6 males. There are three (3) distant members. It is unfortunate that only eight (8) members are active.

2. Meetings
The group meets on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 7:00 p.m to 8:00 p.m. Mondays have also been added. The meeting starts at 5:00 p.m. and ends at 6:00 p.m.

3. Conferences
The group attended the 53rd Ridge Conference held at Obosomase, the 11th anniversary of delegates’ conference held at Nsawam and 46th National Delegates Conference at Akim Oda.

4. Visitations
Members often visit those who seldom come to meetings and those who do not attend church regularly.

5. Finance
Members pay monthly dues of ø1000.00. Every Saturday at meetings, silver collection is taken.

6. Achievement
On 22nd February 2002 the choir was inaugurated. In attendance were the District Minister Rev. G.O Kwapong, Rev. E.K Amankwa, Rev. Felix Asante and the Minister in charge Rev. Anokye Nkansah. The amount realised was ø7, 344,000.00.

7. Challenges
Although the choir has moved thus far, it has not been functioning well. As shown above the number of active members are eight (8).

E) BIBLE STUDY AND PRAYER GROUP ( B.S.P.G.)
1. Activities
The group meets once a week; Wednesday 7:00 p.m –8:00 p.m. The group uses the Discipleship Training Material for its study. Once every month, the group meets to pray. Also the group visits the sick and some inactive members once in every month. Added to this the group meets to practice Presbyterian hymns.

2. Finance
The members pay ø2, 000.00 as monthly dues. At every meeting day offertory is taken

3. Challenge
How to organise the group for inauguration.

F) SINGING BAND
No report was given.

G) DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL SERVICES.(DSS)
1. A Presbyter donated a podium to the church.

2. A bereaved family also donated a lectern to the church, which is being used by
the Junior ‘Y’.

3. The Christ Presbyterian Church presented fifty (50) plastic chairs out of the
hundred (100) plastic chairs they promised the church.

4. A member of the church who is a student at the University Of Ghana presented
a red carpet to the church to be used to cover where the altar is.

5. A member of the church also donated 100 Euros to support buying of an
Amplifier.

6. A friend of the church also donated ø1, 000,000.00 to help the invalids in the
church.
May the Lord bless these donors.

H) ECUMENICAL AND SOCIAL RELATIONS
Members of the church participated in all activities of the local council of churches and other Christian activities.

Finance
Due to prudent financial management all assessment for the year under review have been paid to the District. As usual the source of funding was from the tithes, offertories, voluntary thanks offering (VTO).
Last year we hinted the problem of members seldomly giving thanks offering. There has been a slight improvement in the year under review.

I) NOTABLE EVENTS
1. On the 9th April (Good Friday), the church began to worship in the basement of the uncompleted chapel. May the name of the Lord be praised. The problem of the people sitting on the verandas during services is no more.

2. The church choir was inaugurated on 22nd February 2004.

3. On the 20th June 2004 the Men’s Fellowship was also inaugurated.

4. Christ Presbyterian Church donated fifty plastic chairs to the church.

5. The annual harvest and thanksgiving serviced was celebrated on 17th October 2004.

6. Two sign posts (wooden) have been erected at vantage points to direct people to the church.

J) CHALLENGES
1. Patronage of morning devotions not encouraging.

2. Organization of burial services and registering the basement for weddings.

3. The menace of a refuse dump just close to the church and school.

4. Completion of the basement.

5. Activeness of the youth.

K) GOALS FOR THE COMING YEAR
1. Quarterly retreats.

2. Seminars and worship on liturgy and preaching.

3. Continuation of the work on the chapel.

4. Purchasing of public address system.

5. Continuation of the act of memorizing one scripture every month.

6. To prepare church members for personal and group evangelism to increase church membership by fifty (50).

7. Training of more Bible Study leaders to organise group Bible studies.

L) MEMORIZATION OF SCRIPTURE
To boost our knowledge in scripture, the Minister- In-Charge has introduced the memorization of scripture. Every month the whole church memorizes one
scripture. There would be a quiz competition on that at the end of the year.

M) FAITHFUL DEPARTED
The church registered five deaths, all of whom were communicants. May their souls rest in peace.