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Churches can complement govt’s poverty-alleviation effort –
Cleric
By Rachel Horner
Leader of Christ Faith Tabernacle
International Church (UK) aka Jesus City who arrived Sierra
Leone on Tuesday has charged churches to use their resources in
partnership with the government to fight poverty.
Speaking to a handful of journalists in
Freetown, Apostle Alfred T. B. Williams said churches can create
avenues to help and invest in poverty alleviation programmes.
“Government alone cannot reduce poverty.
Churches can do something to attract their communities. Churches
can create community-based programmes, provide for the poor and
the needy by teaching them the love of Christ and reducing crime
by administering the youths,” he said.
Apostle Williams opines that to raise the
needed finance is not a problem as it has been written in the
Bible that: “the earth is the Lord’s and its fullness thereof;
the world and they that dwell therein.”
He said the aim of his visit to Sierra
Leone is to hold meetings with church and government leaders to
integrate what God is doing in Africa and then called on
churches to concentrate more on the words of God. In the end,
Williams said he is in Sierra Leone to improve the country’s
economic, spiritual and social development.
The Apostle who is also the head of all
black churches in England said he believes in holistic gospel
and he is here to introduce the Jesus City project, which is a
God-inspired programme, designed to place Africans in a better
position to help themselves.
According to the minister, the project
which will kick-off next year having gotten government’s
approval, has a range of hugely needed programmes such as those
that will focus on hospitals, youths, women, orphanage,
industry, education and agriculture.
Buttressing what Apostle Williams said,
Evangelist Victor Ajisafe called on indigenous pastors to see
this development as the beginning of a transformation in Sierra
Leone.
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