Reflections from the Zambezi

Joe Simfukwe was the sixth pastor and first Zambian pastor of Lusaka Baptist Church. He is also one of the longest serving pastors of Lusaka Baptist. He was pastor from 1979-1990. Simfukwe was instrumental in popularising expository preaching in Evangelical and Baptist Churches. He played a leading role in establishing Baptist churches in Zambian urban towns. He also officiated and preached at a number of weddings and wrote many booklets.  Joe Simfukwe was born in 1950 in Jombo Village in then Northern Province, now Muchinga Province where he did his primary and secondary schooling. He later went to do his secondary school education in Scotland. He later studied at Glasgow University in Scotland from 1969-1973. He became a Christian in 1970 at university. He studied theology at Spurgeon’s College in London from 1976-1979. He later did postgraduate theological studies in Australia from 1990-1993. Before his call to be pastor in 1979, Simfukwe worked as an Agricultural res