Since 2018, GH31.75 million has been raised through fundraising activities by the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral of Ghana towards the cathedral's construction.
Different Christian denominations donated GH2.21 million of the total.
At a press conference yesterday in Accra, the board announced this as it unveiled another massive fundraising effort known as "The National Cathedral Week."
The dates for the National Cathedral Week are July 4 through July 10, 2022.
In a news conference, Apostle Professor Opoku Onyinah, the chairman of the board of trustees, stated that the purpose of the commemoration was to support efforts to increase donations for the national cathedral's construction.
The amount of money raised so far does not cover the needs of the construction's cash flow. As a result, we have come to a very crucial point when we must scale up our fundraising efforts.
"Overall, public mobilisation is the main focus of our fundraising during National Cathedral Week. Additionally, we hope to find one million Ghanaian Christians willing to pledge monthly contributions of at least GH100 to the National Cathedral Project. That is feasible since there are over 20 million Christians in the nation, he added.
The week was by far the most ambitious mobilisation of the trustees to anchor the development of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, according to Apostle Prof. Onyinah, a former Chairman of the Church of Pentecost.
Call on churches
By pushing their members to sign up for the 100-cedi club, he urged all churches in the nation to endorse the mass mobilisation plan.
That, according to Apostle Prof. Onyinah, was the key to the church's ownership of this important landmark that also honoured the presence and contributions of Christians to the nation.
"We think the urgency is demonstrated now that the Bible Museum and Biblical Gardens have been integrated, and the development has stalled.
As we work to address some of the most important problems, he urged the nation's religious leaders, "We want to appeal to you not to forget this aim of the National Cathedral Project."