Friday, 6 January 2017

First Sabbath offering For Zimbabwe West Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in southern Africa known for its dramatic landscape huge mineral deposits and diverse wildlife. On the mighty Zambezi River, Victoria Falls,one of the seven wonders of the natural world, make a thundering 108m drop into narrow Batoka Gorge. Zimbabwe's capital is Harare Zimbabwe is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the west and southwest, Zambia to the northwest, and Mozambique to the east and northeast. Most Zimbabwean Christians are Protestants. The Protestant Christian churches with large membership are Anglican, Seventh-day Adventist and Methodist. There are about one million Roman Catholics in the country . The country enjoys complete freedom of worship. The Population of Zimbabwe is about 16 million In 2008, with inflation skyrocketing to an astronomical 231 million per cent , the country's currency totally collapsed and became worthless. To stabilize the economy the government adopted the use of the - United States Dollar as its main currency. Our message reached Zimbabwe in 1928. T.T.Ndlovu, a teacher,at solusi mission saw a letter with Reform Movement letterhead in the pastors office.Since he did not know about the existence of such an organization , he copied the address and started corresponding with brethren from Europe.He started preaching the reform message and was banished from the mission to his home area where he eventually pioneered the first reform movement church in Africa. Although in 1951 the enemy attacked the reform movement and caused a chasm within the church, ,faithful members regrouped and since then the work has been steadily developing leading to the establishment of a field and a mission. Recently brethren in Zimbabwe started projects , through self sacrifice ,of building memorials in form of church buildings. Now it has become necessary to build the headquarters, housing church offices ,preschool and a health center. We are appealing to all brethren ,sisters and friends around the world for prayers and donations to accomplish this major development befitting to a country which was the first in Africa to receive the reform message and spread it to other nations in southern Africa Your brethren from the Zimbabwe West Field