Counselor and President of Warrior Wives Prayer Ministry Global, Pastor Doctor Mrs. Agnes Odoi, has attributed the increasing rate of divorce cases in Ghanaian society to the lack of proper premarital counseling.
According to her, pre-marital counseling is supposed to prepare a would-be couple for marriage, but unfortunately the timing takes away their focus.
In an interview with Paul Anomah Kordieh on e.tv. Ghana’s ‘Christian Connect’ show, she said, “They end up not focusing on the teaching rather they focus on the dressing, the party, and what will happen at their wedding. So, they don’t have that attention to study or listen to what the counselor is taking them through”.
She mentioned that, there are so many churches that don’t have time for premarital counseling.
“In 2020, research I conducted made me find out that there are some churches that even use two weeks for pre-marital counseling, and some of them also use seven days because there is pressure from family and couples to get it done immediately,” she disclosed.
She also added that, sometimes there is also a problem with the counselors because they are not professionals.
“There are so many churches that make people counselors based on how long they have been married or how old they are, which is wrong.” “This is because there is no form of training or seminar for them to go through,” she said.
She emphasized that counseling has been taken like advice, but both are totally different.
“We’re not preparing our counselors, and those we call counselors are not counselors, because from all indications, a lot of the counselors don’t have what it takes to counsel,” she added.
By: Gyamfuah Owusu-Ackom
