The Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles, Province of Ghana has launched its 140th Anniversary celebration with a call on stakeholders to help build a proposed community clinic, a general clinic, and a retirement home at Brafoyaw.
The clinic will help the sisters within the OLA Province to get good healthcare as the current facility is not the standard that the province deserves to effectively handle health issues.
For the retirement home, it will be user-friendly that will help the aged in society to receive better care and family love.
Launching the anniversary at the Holy Family Catholic Church at Brafoyaw in Cape Coast, Sister Perpetual Cecelia Acquah, Provincial Superior of the OLA Province said all their actions are geared towards having a significant effect if it is done to carry out God’s will.
According to her, Very Reverend Father Pere Augustine Planque’s message and mission in founding the OLA Sisters was premised on Jesus being known and loved through the living out of the gospel.
“From this humble beginning, the sisters of our lady of apostle have for 140 years evangelized skilled, and educated many illustrious men and women of Ghana. Our Ghanaian sisters and our sisters from Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Burkina-Faso, Niger, Chad, and Ivory Coast continue working with us to do the church’s mission in health, and pastoral education of our dear people and in and outside Ghana,” she continued.
Sr. Cecilia Acquah further indicated that the celebration marks their love for God, their commitment to caring for the sick, teaching catechism, and bringing out the best in the youth.
To her, the OLA sisters owe all 140 years to the sisters who struggled through many challenges including exhaustion from heat and sicknesses to keep the OLA mission alive including courageous women whose death could not deter others from undertaking the hazardous journey to share in the lives of those who had preceded them.
She said the celebration also gives them the chance to not only look back at what has been achieved so far but to look forward to engaging in new areas of missionary work in the world today.
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Source: Anthony Sasu Ayisadu/ATLFMNEWS
