ecumenism

Video: Trumpet Call Agriculture discussed with Lindani Dube

October 26, 2012
Trumpet Call Agriculture is an ecumenical initiative to feed the nation of Zimbabwe through Christ-centered faith, love and practical action. In the video below, you can listen to the initiative’s co-leaders Pastor Scott Marques of the Newfrontiers churches and Rev. Lindani Dube, Secretary General of the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, talking about the challenges and achievements of their ...

Transformation Conference in Harare by Anglican Church of the Province of Central Africa (Oct 2-7)

October 1, 2012
Transformation Conference — Anglican Church of the Province of Central AfricaDates: October 2 to 7Venue: Glamis Arena Stadium, HarareTime: 8 am to 4 pmGuest Speaker: Dr V. Baffoe (Ghana); Apostle Florence Kanyati; Evangelist Saungweme; Rev Edgar Ruddock (UK)Theme: Our season of renewal through the power of transformation” (Matthew 17:1-2)Contact: Rev ...

US ophthalmologist who grew up in Zimbabwe to set “eye camps” in rural areas

July 31, 2012
About a dozen US volunteers filled a shipping container with medical equipment and supplies recently at the West Georgia Eye Care Center to ship to Zimbabwe in support of ophthalmologist Dr. Stephen Beaty‘s mission work to restore sight to the blind. Beaty, a surgeon with the center, left for Bulawayo ...

Mbare Report No. 111 “AIDS orphans” is a discriminatory term. Though it describes the conditions of children who have lost their parents due to AIDS quite accurately

July 15, 2012
Even in Mbare you need to use “politically correct language.” I have learnt that handicapped people want to be called “differently abled”. At least those fluent in English – the Shona speakers don’t know what the fuss is all about. “AIDS orphans,” I am told, is discriminatory, even though it describes ...

ESS encourages Church to speak out on political issues affecting government

May 30, 2012
The Ecumenical Support Services (ESS) in partnership with the Netherlands Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation last Friday launched a Development of Theology Dialogue Seriesaimed at encouraging the Church to speak out on political issues affecting the transitional government. “The Church is not doing enough.–That is our concern. And we do not know why. We ...

“Gospel Times” editor: to give hope to the hopeless, it is high time we publish good news

May 16, 2012
Christians in Bulawayo have welcomed the arrival of yet another Christian magazine Gospel Times that hit the streets of the second-largest city in February this year. Gospel Times is published by a newly established Bulawayo-based media company, Chayah Media Services, the publisher of the Southern Star newspaper. Leslie Phiri, the magazine’s editor ...

Call to Worship Africa celebrations unites various churches in prayer

May 2, 2012
reprinted from the Newsday   Musicians from different Christian denominations belted out praises to the Lord at this year’s two-day Call to Worship Africa celebrations at the Harare International Conference Centre.   The gospel musical fiesta, which last year featured a Grammy-award winner Don McClurkin, has this year been extended ...

Former Anglican bishop of Matabeleland ordained Catholic priest in UK

April 25, 2012
reprinted with additions from the Catholic Herald  Robert Mercer, the fourth Anglican bishop of Matabeleland, was ordained a priest for the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the UK end of last month.  The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is a personal ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church immediately subject to ...

My prayer with African Apostolic Church

March 30, 2012
It is Saturday around noon and everyone is rushing to the Senga shops in Gweru. People talk as if they all know each other. They encourage each other to walk faster. Fascinated, my best friend Tariro Guwira and I, two students at Midlands State University, decide to join the mob. ...

On clothes and prayers at Midlands State

March 23, 2012
I am in Gweru. And it looks like everything is changed totally from the environment to the people. Especially the Midlands State University students. It is summertime. Blazing hot! You look to your left. You see young ladies –some in hot shorts, some in hot skirts, some in short dresses ...