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The Central Regional National Director of Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International (FGBMFI), Dr. Samuel Tetteh Kwashie, has said it was important for Christians to take a principled stand in the fight against corruption at all levels.

He said even though a principled stand could cause one his or her career, friendships and reputation, Christians must be ready to pay the price to maintain honesty and integrity and to please God rather than seek the approval of man.

Dr. Kwashie, who is also the Central Regional Director of Health Services, was speaking at the opening of this year’s Central Regional Convention of the Fellowship held at Winneba on the theme “Remember your first love (Rev. 2:4)”,

The FGBMFI is a worldwide evangelistic fellowship of Christian laymen of different vocational, professional, denominational, nationality and cultural backgrounds.

The three-day convention was attended by about 250 delegates from all chapters in the region who were taken through seminars, rallies and prayer sessions.

Dr. Kwashie said just as darkness revealed the brightness of light, when the darkness of corruption thickens around, Christian business men and women and organization leaders should make the light of integrity in Christ shine to let the world know that they would not bow to the pressures of corruption.

“We cannot claim to be oblivious of the current economic difficulties and the much talked about corruption in the country. This is the time for us to stand to be counted”, he said.

The Effutu Municipal Assembly Chief Executive, Mr. Nii Ephraim in a speech read on his behalf, said every generation had its own set of challenges and that the current generation was challenged with corruption at high and low places, wanton display of ill –gotten wealth, poor attitude to sanitation, indiscipline, drug trafficking and sexual abuse.

He said the advancement in technology, which was supposed to have engendered positive impact, had brought in its wake social perversion, cybercrime, pornography and other negative tendencies that were tuning people’s attention from God.

He therefore urged all to have faith in God in whom the solution to the challenges could be found.

The National President of FGBMFI, Mr. George Prah, said the Fellowship was committed to its values which was “to do, with what we have, and to keep within us, the infinite resource of the creator which he has graciously deposited in the believer in Jesus”

He said the world had come to an extra ordinary time in which business and economic challenges faced more challenge than ever and appealed to the delegates to ignite the sense of confidence and capacity that pertained in the early church.

Mr. Richard Ekem, the first Chapter President of the Region who was also the first Field Representative among other positions he held in the Fellowship, was awarded a citation in recognition of his meritorious and dedicated services.

Intercessory prayers were said for the leadership of the nation as well as for the entire country.