Pastor Eric Ossei Yeboah, Bantama District Pastor of the Seventh-Day-Adventist (SDA) Church in Kumasi, has cautioned Ghanaians against the obsession for material wealth, saying it will only plunge the nation further into economic problems. He said the craze to be rich through whatever means offered little hope for the Nation’s economic advancement and must therefore be discouraged. Pastor Yeboah gave the advice when he preached a sermon at the end of a five-day camp meeting of the Old Tafo SDA Church in Kumasi. The meeting under the theme: “The People of Hope” was attended by over 3,000 delegates of the Church. He said acquiring wealth honestly and through hard work was not wrong, but that the tendency to wantonly rush for possessions without due regard to how they were acquired was sinful. Pastor Yeboah maintained that it is only God who blesses the hands that work, thus, one needed to be patient in life whiles working hard to achieve a lifetime ambition. He advised Ghanaians to bank all their hopes on God and to ask Him to be their guide in all their endeavours, adding “in spite of predicaments and sufferings, which people go through there is still hope for Ghanaians”. Pastor Yeboah called on churches to intensify their evangelism activities and programmes to win more souls for Christ and also help to transform society. He stressed the need for people to eschew negative tendencies that impeded development and efforts to support government towards building the nation. The Bantama District Pastor admonished Christians to live religious and upright lives since society looked up to them as agents of change. Source: GNA