Zimbabwe

Our mission headquarters in Cape Town continues to be a hive of activity as we sort through almost thirty tons of Bibles and books to be categorized, designated and shipped off to Missions, Christian schools, Bible colleges, churches, university ministries, evangelists and chaplains in the field. We have already had the joy of loading up vehicles with tons of great evangelistic and discipleship materials for Christians suffering in Zimbabwe. By God’s grace, Bibles and discipleship material,  have been delivered to pastors, pensioners and prisoners in Zimbabwe.  Thanks for helping this devastated nation.

 One Sunday I was so amazed and I found tears coming out of my eyes as a man rises up in the church to give a testimony. Like many other Zimbabweans this man has no source of income, his wife died 2 years ago and he was left with four children in their young ages. Because he was homeless he took the kids to the rural village where he left them under the care of his mother who was also destitute and almost 70 years old. He left the kids at the village and came back to town to squat and scavenge for food. On this particular day we were giving out tracts to the areas where the squatters live and the homeless live and this man had decided to kill himself. He received the tract and folded it and put it in is pocket without even reading it.

 
He was going to kill himself on the very same day, he had everything ready for the incident, he had asked for rat killer poison which is sold in the streets after lying that he was being troubled by rats at his squatting place.

 
This man went to the railway lines, a quite place and distant from people and sat down to do his job of committing suicide, but before he drank the poison, he thought of writing something to the people who will find his body, to give directions of his rural village and the address. He had the pencil which was so short  but alas, he had no paper to write the words, after searching and searching he got the tract out of his pocket and decided to write on it.

 
Opening the tract, the headline on the tract said “ Whom will you Blame.” The man read the tract and was instantly convicted and decided to give life a chance and seek a church. After a week of searching for a church where he can fellowship, he finally came to our church and immediately recognized me, he said Pastor, Pastor and I said, no I am not a Pastor, I am an Elder and he said it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter, you saved my life when you gave me that tract and he told this story.

 
What am I saying -  I am saying you people have done and still doing a tremendous work in sending the millions of tracts and magazines that goes all over around the world and here in Africa as well. Thus we take this opportunity to thank you for the thousands if not millions of people who have given their lives to Christ after reading one of the tracts, magazines and some literature.

I am grateful to be one of the brothers who benefitted from them literature sent by you. It transformed my life into studying the word of God and learning a lot, as well as, increasing my faith. Bless you all. Thank you for the timely encouragement and the faith building articles. You will never know how much blessings your literature has brought into my life.

I thank the Lord who connected you with my pastor. Sincere thanks for the literature. I am one of over 140 orphans at House of Grace Orphanage.

Your gifts of literature is God-given and heaven leading. I have decided together with my pastor, to translate the messages and print them into Zimbabwean languages.

We have managed to reach countries such as Mozambique & Malawi, ministering and sharing literature with them and bibles. Keep us in your heart. I pastor 9 assemblies which almost 60% read English. We have distributed most of the bibles we received to youth groups and married couples who are doing well in their Christian movements and helping the new growing Christians.

You just made my day, no amount of words can describe the value of your ministry to us, I serve in EHC as a zonal director in 3 countries Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, in all my monthly travels in these nations, the cry for reading material gets louder, you will find Bible schools that virtually have no reading resources and students pass years without books to study. The reason the work for evangelism in Africa is still so massive, is not because Africa has not been evangelized, no, but because we have to re-do the work again and again, people are converted but not given depth in Christ for lack of informative resources. More than 85% of church leadership in southern Africa have no formal bible school training. Our tragedy can be summed up in the words we frequently use now to remind ourselves of relevance AFRICA- RISKS BUILDING A CHURCH 20KM LONG BUT ONE INCH DEEP. GOD BLESS YOUR PASSION. Keep the books coming.