Wey Gey Hey prays to God

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It was nothing short of beautiful and proper to see parents and final year students of Wesley Girls' High School in Cape Coast pray together as one entity last Saturday to God.

The spiritually charged and emotional atmosphere of thanksgiving to the Almighty for taking the girls through three years of studies on the Kakum Hill (Kakumdo) and supplication to see them through the remaining days and especially in their final exams, the WASSCE, makes it certain that God was there too and heard every fervent prayer from the parents and their wards.

All thanks to the Parent Teachers Association and the school authorities led my Headmistress, Mrs Jeannette Ruby Siameh, it was a very successful programme which was commended by all parents.

Indeed, as Mrs Siameh put it succinctly, at Wesley Girls' they believe in working very hard but also seek God's strength and support.

For the rest of the story, see some moments captured by #Edmages. #canonshots

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Rainy day at the Summer Palace

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One of the ironies of life happened to a group of African journalists on a 10-month fellowship who were visiting the Summer Palace in China in 2017.

Destroyed during the Second Opium War of the 1850s, the palace was reconstructed by Emperor Guangxu for use by Empress Dowager Cixi and renamed the Summer Palace.

The Summer Palace is a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing in the Haidian District, 15km from downtown Beijing.

It was an imperial garden in the Qing dynasty. Inside includes Longevity Hill Kunming Lake and Seventeen Hole Bridge. It covers an expanse of 2.9 square kilometres, three-quarters of which is water. 

Although the journalists were expecting some sunshine to reflect its name, the rains came down, thus forcing everyone to seek refuge under an umbrella or from a raincoat. 

Despite the rain the journalists had fun touring the old museum located at 19 Xinjiangongmen Rd, Hai Dian Qu, North West of Beijing, China, on June 6, 2017.

Below are some pictures captured by #Edmages during the umbrella moments.

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Greater Works 2023...Yellow Sundays

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This year’s GREATER WORKS conference of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), comes off from Monday, July 31 to Friday, August 4, 2023 at the ICGC’s Christ Temple East auditorium at Teshie in Accra.

The church institutionalised “Greater Works” from the words of Jesus Christ in the Biblical text in John 14:12 when He said: "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do".

The conference is, therefore, a call on participants to go out after the five-day encounter and do greater works in all aspects of their lives.

The Greater Works Conference can be traced back to the various camp meetings organised by the church right from the mid-1980s when the church was growing and getting established.

The annual flagship event of ICGC was officially instituted in 1987 at the Baden Powell Hall, Accra, with an attendance of about 2,000 congregants.

Ministering this year alongside the General Overseer, Ps Dr Mensa Otabil will be Ps Matthew Ashimolowo of Kingsway International Christian Centre in the United Kingdom, Bishop Tudor Bismark of Jabula New Life Covenant Church Harare, Zimbabwe and Dr Mike Okonkwo, the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), Nigeria.

As a prelude to the great gathering of God’s children and also to publicise it, the churches belonging to the ICGC fold have declared all Sundays before the event a ‘Yellow Sunday’ meaning all congregants wear a ‘T’ shirt of the ICGC that is yellow, to church.

#Edmages has captured some of the congregants in their beautiful yellow and shares them with you. #greaterworks2023 #weareicgc #icgcholyghosttemple #40daysofpower #icgcinternational #yearofgathering