Call on youth to lead decent lives (Page 31)

THE youth have been advised to identify role models to emulate so that they (the youth) will lead decent lives.
They have also been urged to be watchful of the persons whose lifestyles they copied in order not to be influenced negatively by their lifestyles.
The International Women’s Director of the Church of Pentecost (COP) International, Mrs Beatrice Kwaffo, gave the advice at the Mount Olivet Assembly of the church at Darkuman in Accra last Sunday to climax the one-week convention organised by the Youth Movement of the church.
Speaking on the topic, “Factors that Affect the Development of the Youth”, Mrs Kwaffo said the factors were both physical and social and went on to explain that the social factors included one’s religion, education, economic status, general upbringing, among others.
“These factors could bring about positive, as well as negative, attitudes in an individual,” she pointed out.
She called on the youth not to allow the pleasures of the world to force them to move away from God because He did not discriminate but did all things right in His own time.
She lamented the increase in anti-social vices which were affecting the lives of the youth and mentioned lesbianism, homosexuality, Internet fraud (sakawa) and occultism as having been learnt from the use of different forms of communication, as well as some tourists who visited the country.
She pointed out that in their adolescence, Christian youth, just like any normal human beings, were bound to go through both physical and emotional changes which, if not controlled, could force them to indulge in immoral behaviour.
The women’s director stated that anytime the youth were faced with such challenges, they should stand firm and keep in mind that every step they took would be acceptable to Christ whom they served.
Quoting from Romans 14: 17 and 18, Mrs Kwaffo urged the youth of today to “grow in the favour of the Lord of the living”, adding that because men of old such as Abraham, David, Job and Enoch grew in the favour in the Lord, they were blessed and lived fulfilled lives.

Caption: Mrs Beatrice Kwaffo, the International Women’s Director of the Church of Pentecost (COP) International.