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Thinking Theology

Thinking Theology gathering, the first time in Zimbabwe, was held on the 8th-11th of May 2018 at ZESA Training Centre attracting an average of 90 participants from EFZ and ZCC members. This was unique in that there was collaboration with various partners to make the event a success, the rich presentations on family, leadership and integral mission enhanced our EFZ Mission as well as approaches to this mission. A follow through on the REFLECTIONS and OUTCOMES of this Gathering will be made and communicated soon.  Theological Reflections Theological reflections on the role of the church in public life, were held in Bulawayo and Harare in April 2018. The theological reflections seminars’ provided platform to stimulate sustained dialogue within the church to understand their social responsibilities and obligations as informed by the scriptures and to contribute towards the development of a compendium focused on promoting public participation within the Church. The theological seminars’ also provided a platform for church to reflect on its mandate and through the presentations of developed papers by theologians from different schools of thought church reflected on how it can operationalise its role as the salt and the light of the world and also look into its regulation system in order to provide a leadership role for the nation.  Theological Reflections Meeting – Bulawayo Enunciating the role of the church in Zimbabwe’s Peace Building Agenda The Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD), with the support of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and the ACT Alliance hosted a Dialogue Exchange Programme under the theme “Religious Leaders Supporting the Peace Process in Zimbabwe”. The DEP follows key (peace-building related) events that have taken place in Zimbabwe over the past five months, including the signing into law of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission Act, the appointment of the Commissioners to the NPRC and nation-wide consultative processes conducted by the NPRC which have culminated in the development of the Commission’s strategic plan. All these events were as a result of the years of work that various stakeholders, particularly the church and civil society, have put in as their contribution to the peace building agenda of the country. It was therefore against this background that this DEP was conducted. The DEP had both local and international participants including representatives from Kenya, Togo, Burundi and South Africa. Specifically, the ZHOCD has been involved in shaping the peace and reconciliation agenda in Zimbabwe and this DEP was constructed to build upon an on-going engagement between the churches and National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) in Zimbabwe and to strengthen capacities of the church to contribute to the implementation of the peace framework and peace-building broadly.  While the ZHOCD has contributed significantly to the establishment of the NPRC, there remain gaps in the area of capacity building for church leaders. These capacity gaps have been identified by church leaders themselves and include limitations to appropriately map scenarios and to conduct mediation and negotiation as they host various national dialogues with different stakeholders.  Additionally, the NPRC conducted consultation with Zimbabweans across the country earlier this year and the DEP was critical at this stage in order to prepare participants/church leaders to understand the scope of work of the NPRC, its legal and technical limitations and capacity challenges as well as to influence its subsequent interface with stakeholders and communities in rolling out a peace & reconciliation process. The DEP also provided a platform for church leaders to critically reflect, through a process of theological reflection, on their religious mandate to uphold and strengthen peace in Zimbabwe.  Delegates at the Dialogue Exchange Programme

World Menstrual Hygiene Day

  The Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ) together with 7 of its members namely Faith Ministries, Faith in God Church, Assemblies of God Church, Jabula New Life Ministries, ZAOGA, Jesus Power Christian Ministries and The Apostles Church as well as the Harare Provincial Women Committee joined to commemorate the World Menstrual Hygiene Day at Chikurubi maximum female prison on the 28th of May 2018.  The menstrual hygiene day also known as the menstrual health day is an annual awareness day, which aims to highlight the importance of good menstrual hygiene management and is meant to benefit women and girls worldwide. The day is commemorated on May 28 of each year since 2014 when it was initiated by the German-based NGO WASH United.  The objectives of menstrual hygiene include: To address the challenges and hardships many women and girls face during their menstruation. To highlight the positive and innovation solutions being taken to address these challenges. To catalyse a growing, global movement that recognizes and supports girls and women’s rights and build partnerships among those partners on national and local level. To engage in policy dialogue and actively advocate for the integration of menstrual global, national and local policies, programmes and projects.  The theme for 2018 menstrual hygiene day is Empowerment. While the issue of menstrual health does not have a specific SDG, it fits well in Goal number 5: Achieving gender equality and empower all women and girls.  The commemorations were held with an aim to empower the female prisoners by educating them on issues of menstrual health, preaching the word of hope as well as providing them with hygiene packs to use during menstruation. The EFZ Secretariat and the Churches involved managed to gather resources to distribute to the inmates such sanitary pads, pants, bath towels, soap, Vaseline, baby clothes, sugar, slippers, disinfections, toilet paper, blankets, tooth brushes and tooth paste which had a value of $1500.00. Precious Pearls was of great assistance by donating reusable pads and hygiene packs. Other individuals like Dr Grace Taruvinga and Thobekile Ncube partnered with EFZ to make the day a success. The inmates were also blessed with a lunch on the day.  A total of 101 inmates benefited from the donations and the event was attended by Swedish Embassy, Canadian Embassy, Dutch Embassy, Zimbabwe Prison Correctional Service (ZPCS), Female Prison Support Trust (FEMPRIST), Southern Africa Trust (SAT) and Women on Fire. The ZPCS represented by the Deputy Commissioner General Mrs Mupure expressed her gratitude and testified that it was the first time the Prison had people coming to celebrate the day with them.  It was a day to remember as the inmates were taught on menstrual hygiene, encouraged from the word of God, prayer for, celebrated the love of God through song and dance as well as fellowshipped with food and drink.  As EFZ seeks to impact the nation in all aspects of life, showing love, care and concern for those in prison illustrates how the church promote life with dignity to all regardless of gender, religion or political affiliation. EFZ pledged to lift the flag of the menstrual hygiene day that is aimed at helping women on menstrual hygiene management and carry the SDGs mantra of “leaving no one behind”.     

Prophecy by Cindy Jacobs over Zimbabwe on the 18th of May 2018

Prophecy by Cindy Jacobs over Zimbabwe on the 18th of May 2018, during the Leaders Seminar held at East-end Hall, Harare Showgrounds If my people will come together and pray which you are doing, the Lord will say: You are going to see incredible things to happen, you are going to see, as you stand for Israel and if the President will move the embassy and bless and accept an Ambassador from Israel the drought will break, there will be such an amazing blessing, many, many, many companies that are trying to decide “will we invest in Zimbabwe or not? What will we do? And the Lord would say: You are going to see that I am going to do many surprising things: for this is the season of suddenlies for Zimbabwe, this is the time of acceleration. So the Lord said it’s the time to rejoice! It is time to look up because He opened heaven and the redemption draws near for the nation, And the Lord would say: Look and see the tourism is going to open up: many hotels are going to be built. The Lord says: The airport will expand: there will be a big expansion take place and even look to China because China is going to come invest into Zimbabwe and not only build, help with the airport but with the a new sports stadium. The Lord says: There is a new thing coming. God says they are going to come from around the world, major corporations and The Lord would say: I want to bring a healing to this nation. But the Lord gives a warning: If you go to sleep, if you do not stay on point, if you do not keep praying, the Lord says it will go backwards very rapidly. So you must stand, you must intercede, you must be a watchmen and not relax you cannot relax at this hour. This is a critical hour, I see this like as a woman about to have a baby and the woman is in transition and many times the woman at that time decide “no I do not want to have this baby” but you are going to have the baby, so whether it will be a healthy baby or healthy new nation or not will depend on the Church. The Church is the deciding factor for this nation. I want to say that again, Pastors: this is the hour that the Lord is putting a great responsibility upon you. Why? Because He trusts you. He trusts you. Many of you have been through suffering; you have known persecution but doesn’t my word say, says the Lord “Blessed are you when men persecute you and say everything evil about you; rejoice rejoice for so they persecuted the prophets”. So the Lord would say: It is the new time! It is the new season! And the Lord would say: If you will continue to pray…and notice there is a condition to this- the continuation of prayer meetings. In fact the Lord is telling me that it’s very important for the 24hr houses of prayer to continue and even greater ones to do. In fact this is what the Lord is showing me: You will have like a torch that would be like ah ah you know ah, like the Olympians might use but you know – “electric”, and you will assign different Churches and they will take one week of fasting and prayer. And the Lord says: The light must never go out (Leviticus 9). The fire must burn continually on the alter and if the fire burns continually on the alter and you will come into unity and do this, pass the torch Church to Church to Church to Church, The Holy Spirit says: That you will keep the open heavens for there is still a great war over Zimbabwe. The Leviathan spirit wants to conquer and divide; even politically, want to say I am of this person and I am this person and for that reason, I am not going to prophecy who should be President as yet and the Lord might tell me to but right now He has told me I feel in my spirit I know, but the Lord told me its time for the people to decide. Its time for you to listen to the Holy Spirit and this is very important. As a prophet, you never want to control you know, you don’t want to be controlling, you want to be a prophet you want to say what God says but it is very important to be cautious and careful. But I would say this; The Lord says that you are coming into a season where I will raise up a leader not a dictator but someone that will give freedom for all…this is a good time. Referencing from Matthew 28:16-18 Go therefore make a disciple of Zimbabwe; that Zimbabwe should look like heaven. It should be a kingdom nation. A kingdom nation is free from poverty. A kingdom nation is free racism; a kingdom nation is free from even the pain of the past. Because the Name of the Lord is The Ancient of Days, and so in this season; He wants to wipe out the pain of the persecution, the exploitation even from colonialism but He wants you to be able to come to such a place of healing which I know is a difficult thing because there has been a lot of injustice but the Lord wants you to come to a place where you can shake the dust of the past off your feet. You not going to be marked by what was yesterday; you remember what was yesterday; the Lord is not saying forget but God says its a new dispensation, it’s a new thing, this is a new nation. God is doing is doing new things. you celebrate your legacy but you are excited about the future. Amen…We