Reward of honor has been bestowed on 20 teenegers for keeping their chastity despite social temptation.
According to the Graphic, each of the girls, between age 13 and 16 received undisclosed sum of money for sustaining the culture of honour.
A Wenchi West District of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, (SDA), Mid-West Ghana at the weekend made the special recognition to the 20 girls for preserving their virginity.
The honor of virginity and thanksgiving service was on the side-lines of the observation of the first Sabbath Day of the Church, held at Wenchi.
Wenchi West District Coordinator of the Young Adventist Women Ministries, Mrs Nana Amponsah Poku, commended the girls for keeping their virginity, and urged them to preserve it before marriage.
“God created you uniquely beautiful and you must not allow anybody to lure and break your virginity until you marry”, she urged the girls.
She also asked them to be cautious about the friends they picked in 2025.
Poku said, the ministry was dedicated and committed to moulding girls and young women responsibly to grow and become useful adults in the society.
She underlined the need for society to re-visit ancient traditional norms that protect girls from promiscuity, saying customs, such as puberty rites, ought to be re-introduced to help preserve the virginity.
“The ancient Bragoro or Dipo rite was very essential in preserving girls’ virginity and controlling teenage pregnancies inimical to the growth and development of young girls and women”, she stated.
Associate Pastor of Wenchi West District of the SDA Church, Pastor Andrews Dua Bour Kyere, also commended the girls for their shining example of keeping their virginity and urged girls in the Church to remain ‘pure’ and concentrate on their education.
Some of the girls expressed their happiness about the honour, and also thanked the church for their support towards their spiritual upbringing and development.
