Ordination! Ordination!! Ordination!!

The Church of Pentecost through the Odorkor Area Head, Prophet James Osei Amaniampong on Sunday, 16th June, 2013 ordained some Elders, Deacons and Deaconess within the Santa Maria District.

This was part of his last visit service to the District as he will be transfered to Teshie-Nugua by the beginning of the last quarter of the year 2013.

This service brought together all the four Assemblies within the District under the auspices of Rev. David Addo, the Residence Pastor. Some of the assemblies include; Central Assembly, Ebenezer Assembly, A-Lang Assembly and Bethany Assembly.

A few of the ordained Elders include; Elder David Addo, Elder Ebenezer Addo Ohene, Elder Alexander Bronyah, Elder Cletus Dery, Elder Nicholas Abban and Elder Isaac Donkor.

Some of the Deacons include; Deacon Felix Brakatu, Deacon Pious Boateng, Deacon Kwabena Odame-Otoo, Deacon Charles Kumi, Deacon Emmanuel Kwarteng, Deacon Maxwell Ocran, Deacon Amoabeng, Deacon and Deacon Robert Assiamah.

Some of the Deaconess include; Deaconess Comfort Kwarteng, Deaconess Olivia Donkor and Deaconess Joyce Koduah.

They were encouraged to serve the Lord in their Generation and were encouraged to be bold and fear not for God is with them always as they dutifully discharge their task. Gen. 28:15

Deacon Felix Brakatu

Deacon Felix Brakatu

Engagement Invitation

You are cordially invited to my engagement, which comes off on 22nd June, 2013.

Engagement! Engagement!! Engagement!!!

Felix Brakatu Engages Ruth Authur

Felix Brakatu, Executive Secretary of GAIDA engages Ruth Arthur from the Church of Pentecost-Ebenezer Assembly come 22nd June 2013.

Personal Message: "I have the singular honour to invite you to our engagement which comes off on 22nd June, 2013 at Antie Aku in Accra."

Come, be a blessing to this wonderful Traditional solemnization of our marriage.

 
 

How blogging about work can increase your professional influence

Two weeks ago, I blogged about a workshop I had attended in Vietnam. The meeting convened several researchers in order to choose a relevant research protocol for livestock value chain research: definitely not newsworthy content for the mass media. However, this week end I received an email from a human resources specialist who had read my blog about value chain research in Vietnam. She wanted me to consider a job offer to work for two years on developing a new sustainable agriculture initiative in the Amazon basin for a large American foundation based in California. I had been headhunted.

I was particularly pleased to read the following sentence in her email: ‘This is a wonderful opportunity for a thought leader who is available to take a two-year sabbatical.’ I am sure this was a standard flattering phrase for all the people she had approached. Nonetheless, it was the second time I had been identified as the right person for a particular job by somebody I did not know who had found out about my expertise through an Internet search. Unfortunately, I did not possess any of the specific requirements to apply successfully for that job.

The lesson I have learned from this experience: as a young professional working on agricultural research for development, blogging about my work is likely to have an impact on my career development. It will also increase my influence on my professional peers, and hopefully, on the real-life business and policy decision makers who will be using my expertise

NB: A caption from  jo Cadilhon, Agricultural Economist, ILRI

Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity; A Workshop Worth Attending

Captions from workshop

In relation to ICT bridging the communication gap in the area of the world becoming a global village, it has become very expedient for both the old and youth to join the world in that respect.

The need to do so first of all comes with where, how and who to impact or acquire this knowledge. For a fact, one cannot solve this by missing out on this very well structured workshop, thus Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity organized under the auspices of the Institute for Scientific and Technological Information (CSIR-INSTI).

For that matter, this learning opportunity also gives participant the capacity to also train others or impact the knowledge acquired.

On behalf of all the participants for this workshop, we say a big kudos to all the organizers for putting up this workshop.

I recommend that, just as we have become trained on this application there should be a trainer of trainer course to upgrade our knowledge or to build upon what we have acquired as the world becomes innovative and dynamic with the use of technology.

In pix first from the right is Felix Brakatu

Web 2.0 Learning Opportunity; So Far So Good

Felix Brakatu

If one would ask my opinion on how far with the organization of the program, my candid opinion is so far so excellent. 

To start with, I came in as a novice but with a little background in one other area of blogging which is webs.com of which I have created one for my organization. Notwithstanding the fact that, I already had a fair view of what blogger is all about,  this workshop had really been “ an eye-opener” for me in understanding its importance and how to link it to other social networks, hence I came in as a novice.

One other thing worth mentioning in relation to the success story we all share about this workshop is the facilitator who blends the complexity of the application with easiness making its understanding so simple. For this reason, we have youngsters of myself on the same pedestal of understanding with the aged such as Mr. Fiawoto.  

Anyway, the usual light off had its fair share of the program, just as our lights or power supply were out yesterday’s afternoon but with the help of a standby generator we were rescued.

One other issue that bounced on a few of us was the poor internet connectivity but trust me, the IT guys were around to save the day.

So far we have covered two days activities but high expectations to complete the 5-day workshop devoid of the two issues mentioned above. Hopes are high that the tempo of our workshop will keep on soaring higher and higher. You can check on my twitter on Miriam Akeriwe’s comment on her expectations for the workshop for day 3.

We hope to have a fruitful presentation today just as we have been having since the inception of this workshop.

Who Am I ?

Felix Brakatu is currently the Executive Secretary for the Ghana Agri-Input Dealers Association(GAIDA) which is under a broad consortium by name the Ghana Agricultural Associations Business & Information Centre (GAABIC)

With a humble beginning, he started as a student way back, 2001 from Mc Carthy Hill JHS and continue his second cycle education at the Bishop Herman College, Kpando in the Volta Region.

In view of pursuing higher education, he ended up at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi and after having read Geography and Sociology he ended up along the line as an Executive Secretary for GAIDA.

He had represented his organization on many platforms and had led in taking major decisions concerning the association.

In view of experience, he has gathered experience in blogging, leading or giving presentations at trainings & workshops and Monitoring and Evaluating Projects.