{"id":17101,"date":"2010-12-03T16:33:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T21:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=17101"},"modified":"2010-12-03T16:33:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T21:33:06","slug":"ambassador-stevens-lectures-attitudinal-change-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=17101","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Stevens Lectures Attitudinal Change in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an effort to promote the president agenda for change, Sierra Leone\u2019s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, HE Jongopie Siaka Stevens<em> (in photo)<\/em> has started a \u2018meet the people tour,\u2019 to preach love, unity and commitment among his compatriots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His latest move was recently received in an annual thanksgiving ceremony, organised by members of the United Brethren in Christ Church, Berlin, Germany, on Sunday 28.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Brethren in Christ according to its leader, Rev. Pastor Peter Sorie Mansaray, \u201cIs a mission district branch of the United Brethren Church in Sierra Leone, seeking to address the needs of Sierra Leoneans in Germany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the thanksgiving ceremony, Ambassador Stevens talked about the need for Sierra Leoneans to change their attitudes and work collectively towards promoting their country\u2019s interest. He emphasised on the essence of love and unity, which he said, amongst other things, \u201c involves commitment that has no boundaries.\u201d\u201cThe words pledge, vow, and promise are synonymous to commitment. Our national pledge is a commitment. Therefore we should put the words of our national pledge into practice regardless of where we find ourselves. Let us work for the unity, peace, freedom, justice and prosperity of our motherland,\u201d Ambassador Stevens noted. His administration according to the leader of the Church, Rev. Pastor Peter Sorie Mansaray, and other members, has said to have being extremely instrumental in establishing a cordial, and working relationship among Sierra Leoneans in Germany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is the kind of leadership we are looking for,\u201d Pastor Mansaray said, adding that recent developments ranging from the relocation of the embassy, to the engagement of Sierra Leoneans on issues of national importance by the Ambassador and his diplomatic actors, leave no room for questioning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pastor Mansaray said, as part of his church traditional activities to organise an annual thanks giving service, this year\u2019s ceremony was important because of the Ambassador\u2019s message to the people. \u201cWe should change our attitude and love one another for the interest f our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the establishment of the church in 1997, Pastor Mansary said it has been engaging on the welfare of Sierra Leonean refugees in Germany, strengthening the Sierra Leonean community, and protecting the interest of its members in diverse ways.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur Church is the only Sierra Leonean Church in Berlin, and we are trying our best to address the needs of our brothers and sisters,\u201d he disclosed.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to promote the president agenda for change, Sierra Leone\u2019s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, HE Jongopie Siaka Stevens (in photo) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[751,1],"tags":[866,6201,5492,6202],"class_list":["post-17101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news","category-uncategorized","tag-attitudinal-change","tag-he-jongopie-siaka-stevens","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-sierra-leones-ambassador-to-the-federal-republic-of-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}