Rev Dr Isaac Wuni, Senior Pastor Koinonia Baptist Church (KBC) Tamale

Koinonia Baptist Church, Shalom Baptist Church and Christian Missions Resource Foundation (CMRF) are holding a 5-day medical evangelistic exercise in Tamale. Rev Dr Isaac Wuni, in his welcome address to the participants of the Tamale Missions, stressed on the need to demonstrate compassion to all people.

Speaking from Luke 10:30-38, on the story of the good Samaritan, he emphasised, that Christians must not be part of those who walk away from the challenges that face our communities. God has called all to be a solution to the challenges in our communities. We need to brace ourselves and turn those challenges around.

He bemoaned the neglect of the great commandment, which is love for our neighbour, and the extensive focus on the great commission as the only panacea to the problems of humanity. Christians, as he noted, must exhibit both the great commission and the great commandment to make our communities better. We must preach the Gospel and be evangelistic. However, we must also meet our social obligations by supporting the challenged and providing social amenities. This is what has inspired some churches in Ghana to build hospitals, and schools and to engage in various forms of social interventions in the bid to make the people better.

He concluded that the mission exercises to Dungu, Tuutingli, and Tarikpa are ways we partake of God’s missions and express his love to the people. Participants were therefore encouraged to be zealous in reaching others with the love of God.