social ministry

Khula Sizwe Trust empowers villagers in goat farming

August 29, 2012
Khula Sizwe Trust, a Christian NGO operating in Zimbabwe, has transformed the lives of a number of Matabeleland South communal goat farmers through training them on how to look after the livestock. At a media tour organized by the non-profit  organization in Matobo District under Chief Bidi, a number of ...

EFZ launches maternal health advocacy campaign

August 28, 2012
The Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) has started a maternal health advocacy campaign, as the maternal mortality ratio continues to increase in Zimbabwe amid confusion around the scraping of user fees by government. Polite Matibiri, Gender and Development Commissioner of the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, said they are concerned with the lack of clarity on the scrapping ...

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 ...

Video: Woman who travelled to Salvation Army’s Howard hospital for three hours about Dr. Paul Thistle

August 22, 2012
Video: Woman who travelled to Salvation Army’s Howard hospital for three hours about Dr. Paul Thistle This video by the Short Term International Medical Missions Abroad is a short interview with a Zimbabwean woman whose sister had just given birth. They made a 3-hour trip to receive treatment at Howard Hospital in Chiweshe (Mashonaland Central). For over 16 years, Dr. Paul Thistle and his medical team have provided advanced medical ...

What a graduate of the UZ medical school thinks of the ‘salvation’ from the white Howard Hospital doctor

August 22, 2012
Unless you have been living in a cave the past month or so, you most likely have come across news that Salvation Army‘s Dr. Paul Thistle who through his dedicated service for the past 16 years has endeared himself to the community of Chiweshe (Mashonaland Central) in particular, will be leaving Howard ...

Zion Church of God leader: new Pentecostal churches will falter as economy improves

August 21, 2012
Bishop Caleb Mutingwende, the leader of the Zion Church of God has dismissed the newly emerging churches as fly-by social groups that will not survive beyond the present generation. Mutingwende said the sprouting Pentecostal churches thriving on preaching the gospel of prosperity in times of economic hardships were set to ...

Tsuri Yedenga donates gospel song to praise from ZRP

August 10, 2012
A local a cappella gospel group, Tsuri Yedenga, has broken new ground by singing in hospitals, prisons, funerals, orphanages and other social places — all for a good cause. Formed by Joseph Maswela, 34, in 2003, the group has become the favorite of organisations like the Zimbabwe Republic Police and ...

UFIC to help Murehwa, where Anglican project is on halt

August 7, 2012
Rufaro Nyadembera, who heads the United Family International Church (UFIC) charity department on behalf of  Prophets Emmanuel and Ruth Makandiwa donated top-of-the-range hospital equipment to Kadenge Rural Health Centre  as well as tonnes of goods to Tanyaradzwa Children Home in Murehwa (ca 100 km north-east of Harare) last week.  Present at ...

Catholic Relief Service defends grant to contraception-supporting NGO

August 2, 2012
Catholic Relief Services is defending a grant it shared with another aid group that separately funds contraception, which is a violation of church doctrine. The Baltimore-based group that is the Catholic community’s official international humanitarian agency said recently that no private donor money was given to CARE, or to any ...

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 ...