The Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church has highlighted how illegal small-scale mining (Galamsey) is impacting its activities.
The turbidity levels of water bodies resulting from illegal mining otherwise known as 'galamsey' has forced the church to construct its own baptisteries to baptise new converts.
As a church which believes in baptism by immersion, a ritual which Jesus Christ himself was taken through by John the Baptiste in the Jordan River, the Church says galamsey has adversely impacted that aspect of winning souls for Christ.
In the church, new converts are taken through the same ritual as Christ in a stream or river to become a 'new creation'.