Spend Quality Time With Your Children-Owusu Ansah To Parents

Bishop Yaw Owusu Ansa

Renowned radio pastor, Bishop Yaw Owusu Ansah has admonished parents to spend some quality time to interact with their children to know their challenges.

This, he explained, would give the children the opportunity to share issues affecting them so that they (parents) could offer them assistance to come out of those problems.

“I want parents to spend quality time with their children so that they could also pour out their challenges," he said, adding that “parents must have good interactions with their children."

Bishop Yaw Owusu, who is the presiding bishop of the Dansoman branch of Resurrection Power and Living Bread Ministries (REPLIB), gave the advice in an interview with Oman News during a five day youth camp the church organized for the youth in Accra.

The 2017 Youth Camp was attended by about 1,500 BECE graduates, SHS students and university students.

The youth were taken through several topics including, pastoral clinic.

Bishop Yaw Owusu Ansah explained that they decided to include pastoral clinic in order to interact with the youth to know their challenges and offer them counseling.

He said it was mind boggling what some of the youth told the pastors during interactions with them.

He continued “you live with your child and he /she is a gay or lesbian and sings in the church choir but the parents doesn’t know.

Your child is into all manner of wrongdoings, but you are not aware. One of the guys at the youth camp, who is a teacher, told us that he started practicing gay at the age of 14 and is still practicing it. If parents spend time with their children they will get to know what their children are into. So we engaged them and offered professional counseling and also prayed with them."

The respected man of God cautioned parents to desist from spending much of their time watching “tele novella” and leaving their children to their fate.

“When you spend much of your time watching tele novella and become too busy because of work without paying attention to your children, remember that the system( TV progrmmes and WhatsApp) will pollute them, and who are you to blame yourself,” he stated.

He said God would hold parents accountable on the day of reckoning if they fail to provide godly training and counseling for their children.

Bishop Yaw Owusu Ansah called on those who develop radio and TV programmes to come out with educative programmes which will groom the youth instead of programmes which seeks to destroy them.

Story By: Michael Creg Afful

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