mission

Video: Canadian Christian, “Trip to Zimbabwe changed the way I teach”

December 27, 2012
“I saw God there. More than I had seen God ever in my life. It’s changed the way I shop, it’s changed the way I buy food, the way that I eat in general. It’s changed the way I teach,” says one of The Meeting House of Canada volunteers to Zimbabwe. ...

Video: Canadians visit Mennonite Central Committee partners in Bulawayo

November 20, 2012
Every year a small team from The Meeting House, a church in Canada, travels to Africa. Last year, they came to Bulawayo to spend time learning about Mennonite Central Committee partnering organizations there. Photographer Paul Bettings who travels the world working on projects with the likes of World Vision, provided ...

Professional golfers help US Mormons with shipment to Zimbabwe

November 19, 2012
From American Fork (Utah, United States) to Zimbabwe sounds like an advertisement for something that covers the entire alphabet. In reality, it’s a humanitarian service project. Members of the American Fork Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been sorting, packing and preparing items to ship ...

Former Carmelites Superior in Zimbabwe to be buried in his native Ireland

November 15, 2012
Father Sean Coughlan, O.Carm, who served as Carmelites Superior in Zimbabwe from 1961 to 1970, died at the Beacon Hospital in Ireland on November, 12. He was in his ninety first year. Fr Coughlan arrived in Zimbabwe in 1949. He served  at Saint Joseph’s Mission in Sakubva (the first high-density suburb to be established in ...

UMC missionaries visit Zimbabwe, Malawi

November 12, 2012
A group of seven people visited  the village of Mutambara in Manicaland  for a week last September, where they checked in on the Hope Center that Acworth United Methodist Church helped build. Along with Rev. James Gwin, senior pastor of the US state of Georgia-based church, the group included Shirley Rose, who has represented ...

What the destruction of Timbuktu in Mali has in common with Zimbabwean Christians’ attitude to the traditional Shona religion

October 12, 2012
by Tendai Huchu This summer, Islamist fighters attacked and destroyed centuries-old mausoleums and tombs in Mali’s Timbuktu with pick axes. Whatever their doctrinal rationale for doing this, they were not only destroying their own heritage, but a vital inheritance for the whole world. Iconoclasm is nothing new and has been ...

Video: 2012 Zimbabwe Mission Trip – Abiding in Christ Ministries

August 27, 2012
Abiding in Christ Ministries was on a mission trip to Zimbabwe earlier this year,  where the church had an opportunity to teach and equip pastors with the Holy Spirit, help out to 1,000 orphans with school supplies and other much-needed materials. Abiding in Christ Ministries have put together a little video to ...

How mature are Zimbabwean churches to carry the Good News overseas?

June 6, 2012
Writing from the United States, Ken Mufuka in his essay “Roman Catholic struggle for identity!” invoked Zimbabwean Christians recently to sympathise with the trials and tribulations of the US Catholic Church. Mufuka argues that the gender discourse in America became so polarizing that the country’s Catholics risk either losing their faith ...