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July 29, 2020May 28, 2020

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 1^st 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.

July 15, 2020June 22, 2020

Ndine Mlendo M’dziko Lachildendo

Ernie & Margie Wendland have been living in Africa for half a century

the title of this post means “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land” (Ex. 2:22 ESV)

The 1960’s was a decade of worldwide social and political upheaval. It was the era of MLK and the Civil Rights movement, and African independence from the French and British colonial empires. In 1968 a young graduate from a small Midwestern pastor-training college joined his father and a small team of missionaries in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia to lend a hand teaching students in the Lutheran Bible Institute. That young man’s name was Ernst Richard Wendland, and 52 years later he is still serving the WELS as a missionary in Africa.

July 8, 2020January 28, 2022