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A COLOURFUL ceremony was held at the St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Elmina in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) municipality of the Central region last Sunday to officially induct into office new leaders to steer the affairs and administration of the church. Inducting the executives into office, the Parish Priest, Rev. Father John Manso-Hamilton charged the executives to exhibit good character and lead exemplary lives for the congregation to emulate. �As leaders of this great church, all people, especially the youth, will be looking up to you, therefore lead good lives and protect the image of St. Francis of Assisi,� he added. Rev. Father Manso-Hamilton further appealed to the executives to go all out and look for what will help the church to grow and stand on its feet as a parish. �As a parish, there are more valuable things the church will need to discharge its duties, therefore as you have accepted to lead this church, I command you to use your strength, knowledge and wisdom to fight for development in the church to win more souls for Christ,� he stated. The newly inaugurated executives have retired educationist, Frank Amissah as the church President; he succeeded another retired educationist, Elizabeth Hommiah who served for more than 10 years. Madam Josephine Cal-Rhwe was elected Vice President with Samuel Mensah as the Secretary, while Beatrice Christopher was elected Vice Secretary. Godwin Anane, Michael Gym, Mary Magdalene Eshun, Thomas Vibedor and Master Grant Essilfie are all members. The event was also used to launch the church�s harvest which is expected to come off in October this year. The theme for the harvest is, �But just as you excel in everything�see that you also excel in this grace of giving.� The harvest is aimed at soliciting funds for continuous developmental works in the church. The harvest committee Chairman, Mr. Arhinful disclosed that the committee had targeted GH�5,000 to purchase materials to repair the church�s ceiling in order to prevent birds and other insects from disturbing church services. According to the committee, the harvest has been divided into different categories, where special collections will be held before October to remind the congregation of the main harvest itself. St. Francis of Assisi was established over 20 years ago and has seen tremendous transformation as it initially had to hire a community centre to hold church services until its ultra-modern church complex which accommodates hundreds of people was built about eight years ago.