| Dear Pete: Greetings and blessings in Christ!
Please, find the information which you need. Please, feel
free to edit the information as you see fit. Tomorrow, we
will send specific needs of each local Church as we did not
think of this. Thank you, Larson & Jenny NEW LIFE FELLOWSHIP
New Life Fellowship is a young, but dynamic Bible believing
fellowship group of Churches in Zambia, and Congo (Zaire).
Currently, our Church ministry headquarters is in the Zambian
town of Mufulira in the Copperbelt province. Since the inception
of our Church movement in 1997, we now have four Churches
in Zambia and two Churches in Congo (Zaire) in a rural area
called Mokambo and in Lumbubashi. As of July 2001, another
local Church is being pioneered among the poor of the poor
people on the outskirts of the town of Mufulira. Between 1998,
and 2000, we had established three Churches in Angola. But
all our Angolan Churches have now been displaced by the on
going war in that country and most of the members are now
living in a refuge camp in Zambia. For security reasons, we
can't reveal the name of the refuge camp where they are living
on the internet. We are in touch with these refuge brothers
and one of their leaders came to meet us in Mufulira, Zambia
to ask for some material support and to tell us that they
are continuing on with Church work in the refuge camp. However,
as all our Churches are in great need, we do not have the
resources to help these brothers and sisters at the moment.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
-To win, disciple, and to train believers to proclaim the
gospel of Jesus Christ in their own land and in other nations
of the world.
-To help believers put "God First" in their lives and everything
(Matthew. 6:33)
-To meet the pressing needs of humanity, (spirit, soul, and
body) through believing prayer and practical means.
-To help declining Churches to grow spiritually and numerically.
-To establish a dynamic non denominational Bible college and
other institutions of learning in Zambia which will benefit
other African nations.
EVANGELISM, SEMINARS & CHURCH PLANTING
All New Life Fellowship Churches do exist for the main purpose
of reaching the lost with the gospel of christ. Each local
church is involved in personal evangelism among the poor people
where we are currently working. However, besides personal
evangelism, small scale interdenominational crusades have
been conducted at least once each year during the past two
years. In June 2001, three small interdenominational crusades
were held in the Zambian village of Murundu (near the boarder
with Congo), and in the towns of Mufulira and Solwezi. In
each crusade, many people gave their lives to the Lord and
were encouraged to read the Bible; to pray and to go to a
local Church where the Bible is honored as the true word of
God and also where the Lord Jesus Christ is recognized as
the only Savior of all humanity.
Another important program which is conducted by New Life Fellowship
Churches in conjunction with The God First Team is seminars
for Church leaders. The main purpose for the seminars is to
build believers in their faith and to inspire Church leaders
to reach out to evangelize the lost with the gospel and to
plant Churches.
OUR CURRENT PROJECTS
(1) Due to to the high poverty levels in Zambia with a lot
of unemployment, we are currently trying to develop a carpentry
project for unemployed people in the community. We already
have some few carpentry tools for the project and we are renovating
a small room which we have been renting for the past three
months for the project. The room is quite small and we need
to rent some additional space. At the moment, we don't have
finances to do so. In addition to the carpentry project, we
also have two second hand sewing machines which we would like
to use for a sewing class for the unemployed ladies. The sewing
project is also in need of a room to rent.
(2) A HAMMER MILL FOR THE POOR
Currently, we are also planning to set up a Hammer mill for
the poor people in the small town of Solwezi. The Hammer mill
will be grinding maize meal (Zambia's staple food) for the
people of Solwezi and the surrounding areas. So far, we have
appointed three Christian leaders to plan for this project
even before we find any money for the project. One leader
is our own National co-ordinator; and the other two are from
The Christian Brethren Church (also known as Christian Missions
in Many Lands)
All our current projects projects as well as the other projects
which we would like to set up will not only give skills to
the unemployed, but they will also be used as tools for evangelism.
OUR CHURCH LEADERSHIP Our Churches are run by a team of pastors
and other leaders under the supervision of the National Co-ordinator,
the Copperbelt Co-ordinator as well as the Director who is
currently doing post graduate studies in Melbourne, Australia.
All our pastors do not receive any salary honorariums at the
moment because the Churches and our non denominational ministry
called, The God First Team do not have finances to support
them. As a matter fact, one of our pastors has his wife working
for another Church in order to support him.
PRAYER NEEDS
Please, pray for our carpentry and sewing machine projects.
Pray for the Lord's provision of one hundred American dollars
each month for the rental of the project room and also to
enable us rent another extra room. Currently, we have a one
year rental agreement on this room.
Please, pray for the Lord to provide us with seven thousand
American dollars to enable us buy an electric hammer mill
that will be grinding maize meal (Zambia's staple food) for
the people of Solwezi.
** Please, note that there's power in prayer, James 5:16,
17.
** If you would like more information on our work in Zambia,
Congo (Zaire) or the Angolan refuge Church or if you would
like to support any of our Churches or any of our projects
for the needy, or if you would like to go and see what God
is doing through our work, please, contact
Ps Jacob Mutembu
National Co-ordinator
New Life Fellowship
Private Bag S.20
Solwezi Zambia
or
Ps Moses Muke
Copperbelt Co-ordinator
New Life Fellowship
P.O. Box 40929
Mufulira, Zambia
For quick information on any information which you need in
connection with our work in Zambia, please, contact:
Rev Larson & Jenny Mutembu,
P.O. Box 38,
Chirnside Park,
Victoria 3116,
Australia Telefax: +61-3-9726-8862
Email: mutembla@alphalink.com
or fellowship@skybiz.com
Web site: http://skyfamily.com/newlifefellowship
Pete Benson wrote:
Hi Jenny and Larson,
Yes, do write up this information in article form, giving
a short but good description of the churches in need of sisiter-church
links, their needs, evangelistic opportunities as they receive
support, etc. Be sure to list contact address information
for setting up sister church links with these congregation,
addresses, phone-fax numbers, email addresses etc. I don't
think the same security precautions that I took for those
congregations in S.E Asia that I put on my section are needed
but if you think they are, then take those precautions when
writing your article (click on "What is Evangelism?" and then
the title "Evangelism Through Sister-Church Links" to see
what I'm talking about). If your missions need any Campus
Crusade for Christ International resources, be sure to contact
them. They can provide a lot of evangelism resources in the
language of the local population for almost anywhere in the
world. You can look them up online at: http://www.jesusfilm.org
Agape,
Pete Benson
Dear Pete: Victories and greetings in Christ's name! Thank
you for the other information which you had told us about
Campus Crusade for Christ International materials. Larson
did their evangelism course when he was in my first evangelical
Bible college in Zambia in 1989, and we will be happy to contact
them to supply our people with some appropriate tools for
evangelism and Christian growth.
Regarding the needs for our Churches, we think we mentioned
that all our Churches are in great need. The first need is
of course lack of financial support for the pastor's salaries
or honorariums. The other is lack of Church buildings for
worship. To build a Church building, all our Churches will
first need to have money to apply for Church building sites
from their respective councils or village authorities. As
for our Lubumbashi Church in Congo (Zaire), they first need
money to officially register with the government before they
can be allowed to meet in a public place. Thus for now, they
are meeting in two different homes. It is of course, legal
for them to meet in homes before they can be registered. Just
like in Zambia, each local Church has got to find money to
pay for it's registration even though it belongs to New Life
Fellowship which is an officially registered Church movement.
In Zambia, the payment for registration will not be needed
for each local Church that is planted once we find money to
apply for "Exemption from Registration".
Another great need which we have in all our Churches is lack
of finances to support the orphans, widows and other poor
people. With the high death rate which in most cases is the
result of HIV Aids and malaria, every local Church has got
needy widows and orphans. We don't have a vision to start
orphanages because we don't want to displace the orphans from
their wider extended family. Thus, we would rather support
them in the homes of their extended families. We do of course,
do respect the old mission stations which have orphanages
and those who have visions to start up orphanages. To add
to the list of orphans is a list of homeless street kids whose
parents can't afford to support them. It is because of these
enormous needs in all our Churches that we feel that God has
called us not only to preach the word alone, but also to be
practical by meeting some of their physical or material needs
which we may be capable to meet. For how can we effectively
preach to starving and hungry people whom their governments
can't help? How can we effectively minister to them without
offering them something which can help them to be who God
wanted them to be? In all the projects which we would like
do establish, we would like to empower the poor people to
be able to help themselves for life.
Pete, we hope we have given you some enough information which
you can add to what we have already supplied as you see fit.
Once more, thank you for your passion and indeed for your
desire to help us advertise our needs our needs to those who
might be able to help. God bless, Bro. Larson & Jenny
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