Tema Jan 2, GNA—The Central Assemblies of God Church, Tema, has observed the watch night service to usher in the new year with energy despite the gruesome murder of their head pastor on Sunday.
They braved a sad, melancholic and a creepy harmattan night on which for the first time in twenty five years, the most prominent personality of the Church was absent and everyone knew why.
Regardless of the sadness of the situation which saw Rev. Dr. David Nabegmado stabbed to death, the congregants, led by a powerful worship and praise team and a dynamic leadership, sang and praised the Lord for having seen them through twelve months of the passing year.
Even though, one could see melancholy in the eyes of some of the congregants, they still defied the pain in their hearts and thanked God for seeing them through the year.
Delivering the sermon, Rev. Faithful Biney, a Missionary and long time associate of the Assemblies of God church, admonished Christians to command light into their situation as light had the potential of turning their hopeless situations around.
He informed of how light was the solution to the many problems of the world and that the world would be a better place if Christians were able to let the light of God shine in » this dangerous and dark world ».
Rev. Dr. Nabegmado, who had led the Central Assemblies of God church, Tema Community Four, for about 25 years, was allegedly stabbed to death by his nephew, Francis Nabegmado whilst he was preparing to deliver his final Sunday message for 2018.
In an earlier interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), Rev. Alfred Kweku Akumbie, the Greater Accra East Regional Secretary of Assemblies of God, eulogized the deceased head pastor, calling him a man who had impacted a lot of lives in society and Assemblies of God in general and therefore his death came as a great blow to the church.
After the service, they hugged and wished each other well but it was obvious that the unsolved murder which had rendered part of the Church building a crime scene, would dominate their private conversations for a long while.