As part of its 71st World Convention slated for Accra in July, the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International (FGBMFI) will organize a Business Expo to enable foreign and local entrepreneurs to network and create partnerships.

Beyond bringing them together, FGBMFI’s ultimate agenda is to encourage partnerships among businesses whose defining character is the infusing of honesty in business.

“Fighting the canker called corruption, an evil which is at the core of Africa’s lack of progress, is our ultimate objective,” says Mr Ray Snowden, the National Director for Corporate Business Development Directorate of FGBMFI.

Answering media queries on why the FGBMFI is mixing a spiritual revival with a mundane event like a business expo, Mr Snowden said “business is not evil; only evil people make business evil”, adding that the Fellowship, while working to weed out corruption, seeks to replace that culture with a spirit of integrity and ethical conduct.

The purpose of the media encounter was to throw more light on the 71st World Convention of the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International, a three day event at the International Conference Centre in Accra from July 13 through 15th. Some 2,500 people from over 40 countries have registered to take part. It is the second of its kind in Africa in Africa in the Fellowship’s 71 years of existence.

Mr Snowden said international booths will be set up to enable businesses to exhibit goods, services and technology at the venue, creating a “B2B platform” to advertise, create partnerships and seek trade representation. Alongside the exhibition will be seminars at which internationally reputed speakers, such as Dr Tommy Combs, of the USA, Nigeria’s Abiodun Falabi and Tuo Adama from La Cote d’Ivoire, will teach on how to sustain the cutting edge in business.

At the plenary sessions in the morning, afternoon and evening sessions, the convention will be addressed by such sought after ministers as Apostle Joshua Selman of Nigeria and Joana Hunter, an American minister of the gospel.

The Convention theme is, ‘Empowered for Service’.