Life History of Kennedy Sunkutu

This blog post is based on notes that I made during a presentation that was made by by Pastor Conrad Mbewe during the Zambia Baptist Historical Society AGM held at Twin Palm Baptist Church last Saturday. The material for the presentation was complied Kapambwe Sunkutu the late daughter of the late Pastor Sunkutu.

Kennedy was fairly involved with the life of KBC. In the early days he played an instrumental role in door to door outreach of KBC.
He was a deacon and preached there often.

When he moved to Choma he assumed the overall oversight of the church. He was ordained as elder of Central Baptist Church in Choma by KBC when he was barely a year in marriage.

In April 2001 he was sent by KBC to plant a church in Kafue called Kafue Reformed Baptist Church where he served till he was called to glory.

Kennedy as a preacher
He had a deep riveting voice.
His preaching was applicatory. He always ended his sermons by urging the listen to apply what they had heard.

Kennedy as an evangelist
Initially he used a bicycle to preach the gospel in Kafue. He was a prolific evangelistic tract writer.

Kennedy as pastor
Kennedy poured his life as pastor into the church.

Kennedy as scholar
Studied at Reformed Baptist Preachers College where he had excellent grades.
He did a Master's of theology at University of Pretoria.

Other roles
Other roles that Kennedy Sunkutu played were:
•Registrar of Lusaka Ministerial College
•Leader of Reformed Baptist Churches in Southern province
•Board member of Ecclesia Africa
•Asociate Editor of Reformation Zambia.
•Regular preacher at African Pastors Conferences.

Kennedy's illness and entry into glory
In 2015 he was diagnosed with kidney failure and required a liver transplant in India. Gladys the wife donated the kidney to the husband. Due to complications of the kidney he later succumbed to death two years later.

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