Right Reverend Sampson Yamoah, Bishop elect for the Wenchi Methodist Diocese, has said that effective childhood development must come from training at the home, the school and the Church.
He, therefore, called on parents, teachers and religious leaders to collaborate and make the home, school and Church, ideal places towards the proper upbringing of children.
Right Reverend Yamoah said this when he opened the 2008 Biennial Diocesan Youth and Students Assembly at the Nkoranza Methodist Church recently.
He stressed the need for youth to be self disciplined and give utmost respect to their parents, teachers as well as Church leaders.
Right Rev. Yamoah also charged the youth to be law abiding in order for them to receive great blessings from God and grow as responsible future leaders as well as allowed Jesus Christ to rule their lives and eschewed negative social vices.
Referring to the theme for the Assembly dubbed: "Raising Young Leaders of Integrity for Sustainable Development of The Church", he advised the youth to take their education serious in order that they would reach high marks and acquire gainful employments in future.
Right Rev. Yamoah urged the youth of the Church to learn vocations and or engaged in agricultural activities so as not to become liabilities in their communities.
"The youth should ensure effective management of their time and resources and guard against extravagance in order to acquire wealth and establish better assets and command respect as responsible persons when they become adults," he said.
Professor Emmanuel Otchere, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at the Wenchi Campus of the Methodist University of Ghana, called on parents to lead lives worthy of emulation by their children in order for them to become useful citizens in future.
Professor Otchere stressed the need for parents to invest much of their resources in the education of their children, since education is the only legacy they could bequeathed to them.
Mr Joseph Nketiah, also a lecturer at the Faculty, urged graduates of the Senior High Schools to seek admission into the college to acquire the necessary education that would enable them to develop agricultural technologies and to become outstanding farmers in their communities.
Mr Nketiah advised the youth to take the farming as an occupation and not as a hobby and referred to Mr Thomas Ahimah from Offuman, who was the first person to be adjudged as the National Best Farmer in Ghana and said he has acquired international recognition all because of farming.
In a welcoming address the Nkoranza Circuit Youth Organiser, Mr. Albert Mensah thanked the Church for organising Assembly at Nkoranza and called on the participants to propagate the good news to their colleagues in their variuos communities.