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Meet Pastor Kamwata

Left to right: Alice, Muleya (Rev. Kamwata’s niece), Faith, Mrs Eness Kamwata, Pastor Kamwata, Beatrice, and Clive.

This week’s post is written by guest author David Kamwata, who is a pastor in the Lutheran Church of Central Africa – Zambia Synod.

Personal Background

I was born on 1st November 1969, in Kaoma, a district in the western part of Zambia. I was the second-born in a family of five. My parents were members of a certain Pentecostal church, but they were not very strong Christians. They used to take us (their children) to church once in a long while. As a result, I had the freedom to go to many other different churches in the company of other boys provided there was fun.

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Portrait of a Gospel Harvester

2019 Graduates of the Greater Africa Theological Studies Institute (GRATSI) from left to right: Pastors Mecious Lubaba, Jonathan Kangongo, Eliya Petro, Forward Shamachona, Mascrif Mulonda, Stanley Daile, Alfred Kumchulesi, Ellason Kambalame. Missing: Pastor Enock Mkowasenga.

Picture Moshe, a first-century Galilean farmer. Moshe learns that Yeshua, the traveling rabbi he has heard so much about, has returned to the fishing village.

Moshe aches, head and heart, for God’s kingdom. He decides to leave his farm for a day, walk the whole way, or catch a ride on an ox-cart, and see Yeshua.

Yeshua, rumor has it, claims God’s kingdom is near.

If it is so, … is the kingdom coming right away? Will God finally blow Roman taxes and military might away?

Moshe wonders if today, Yeshua will show the way.

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