{"id":1022,"date":"2016-11-28T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T23:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:02:39","slug":"zambia-new-country-for-pathways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2016\/11\/28\/zambia-new-country-for-pathways\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia – new country for Pathways"},"content":{"rendered":"
Arriving in Lusaka, Zambia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve just returned from a quick trip to Lusaka, Zambia in southern Africa. The flights took a painfully long time, transferring through Johannesburg as well as Amsterdam and Paris. But my ReachGlobal partner Stu and I eventually arrived and connected with our Zambian friends. Although the stay in Zambia was brief, it was filled to the brim. On Sunday, for example, I preached in four different churches and then had three meetings with different leaders.<\/p>\n

\"Pastor
Pastor Godfrey’s church where I preached on Sunday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then I went home and exercised each night to work out kinks from the long flights. Lusaka is a nice city, comfortable weather, a bit cleaner than some African cities I’ve been in, but similar in culture. We stayed in a lower class part of the city near the slums.<\/p>\n

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Local dump and rock quarry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the first moments, I realized a number of things were going to be different than I had planned, but that is pretty common in this line of work. Of our two ReachAfrica partners where were going to help us get connected, only one was present, and he was quite young and unfamiliar with what to do. I had made outside connections, and was able to meet with several leaders of the primary evangelical denomination in Zambia (ECZ) and the primary evangelical interdenominational fellowship in Zambia (EFZ). The latter proved to be an extremely valuable meeting opening to door for us to bring Pathways Bible Training to thousands of Zambian pastors who otherwise have no training. Despite hearing from certain Zambian pastors that we would be required to pay each trainer to go through our training, the director of EFZ (Bishop Mwanza) stated that this was not true, and in fact for the sustainability and reproducibility of the trainings, this was not advisable.<\/p>\n

\"Bishop
Bishop Rev. Pukuta Mwanza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In that important meeting with Bishop Mwanza, in every point we discussed we found we were in complete alignment.\u00a0This included:<\/span><\/p>\n