The ManicaPost
Morris Mtisi Post Correspondent
A TOTAL of 358 Seventh Day Adventist missionaries descended on the Eastern Border city of Mutare for two weeks and set it on evangelical fire.
The two weeks started off with an estimated 2 500 SDA youths coming together at Hillside Campsite to revive their lives in Christ. After the revival, they went on a marathon clean-up campaign of the city and surrounding areas that included Mutare Provincial Hospital, Meikles Park and Sakubva Bus Terminus. The message was simple: Let’s keep our city clean! Let’s keep our environment clean! God loves clean people and clean environs!
Then the door-to-door crusade started.
The crusade established house and work-place Bible studies covering major scriptural teachings on family life, evangelism and biblically supported health and wellness.
The 358 SDA missionaries mainly from Harare and Chipinge church districts ministered to families and workmates for two weeks fulfilling Jesus’ instruction He gave before dying for humanity and returning to his Father, also our Father, in Heaven: GO YEE THEREFORE AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS . . . (Matthew 28 vs 19)
In his farewell sermon to Mutare Central congregation, one elder Ndlovu repeated and emphasised Jesus’ appeal to Peter: “Feed my Sheep!” saying no matter how Peter loved or us love Jesus, we must feed his sheep.
In the same benedictory vein, Pastor Nicholas Bimha and his wife thanked all the missionaries for setting Mutare on evangelical fire for two wonderfully blessed weeks.
Said Pastor Bimha: “The love, grace and power of the Lord was upon Mutare for two weeks. Thanks to God’s missionaries and those who hosted them and facilitated their missionary work. Greater missions and programmes are coming soon as we march and get closer to the day of Jesus’ second-coming to take us home.”
In a similar valedictory speech and prayer to all who had been baptised, Pastor Francis Mbira warned the new ‘creatures’ in Christ to divorce the devil completely and keep near Jesus.
“Mind your old friends who may be keen to drag you back into the old ugly world of gossip, fornication, useless music and Africa Movies that may be thrilling yet a disgraceful abomination of the truth about God and Godliness,” he said.
