Reflections from the Zambezi

In the first week of January 2020, a few months before the Covid-19 pandemic struck worldwide, I was priviliged to travel to Cape Town for a Strategic Planning meting of the e/Merge Africa. I am the country representative of e/Merge Africa. I travelled to Cape Town from Lusaka using South African Airways. My outward journey to Cape Town was on 4th January with the return journey being on 11th January. V & A Waterfront with Table Mountain in the background View of Cape Town from the foot of Table Mountain Sunrise at the V & A Waterfront Enjoying Sunset cruise on the Atlantic ocean at  the V & A  Waterfront in Cape Town Sunset at the Waterfront Moonrise at the V & A Waterfront  Heading back to the V & A Waterfront after the sunset cruise Art film entitled 'More Sweetly Play the Dance'  William Kentridge  at the  Zeitz MOCAA - Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

One of the places that I had on my must see places in London was the Metropolitan Tabernacle.  Metropolitan Tabernacle is an Independent Reformed Baptist Church where Charles Haddon Spurgeon was the church minister or pastor for 38 years.  Spurgeon is regarded as one of the greatest preachers of the nineteenth century. He was known as the "Prince of Preachers".    The current minister of the church is Dr. Peter Masters. He has been the minister of the church since 1970. He has faithfully preached the word and ministered to his flock for over 50 years. He has also authored many books and booklets as well as trained men from the UK and internationally as preachers and church ministers through the School of Theology and London Reformed Baptist Seminary. He started the Evangelical Times, a monthly periodical focusing on news of for Evangelical churches in the UK. It was my privilege to meet him in 1994 when he was the main preacher during the Zambia Reformed Conference i...

Letter to my Children Kenneth Kaunda Veritas Trust 1977 139 pages One of the things that I and my fellow boarders at Kafue Secondary School looked forward to during our meals in the dining hall was receiving letters especially those from our parents and guardians. These letters were important in maintaining connection with our families as we got news of what was happening in our families as well as get advice on how to conduct ourselves at school.  The book 'Letter to my children' by Kenneth Kaunda, the first Republican President of Zambia was written to his children as a kind of public apology for neglecting his children so badly by putting his political career before his family. This book is dedicated to his children and the youth of Zambia. Some key highlights of this book are: Faith and values. Here Dr. Kaunda discusses issues of power. He states that the earliest form of power that he encountered and had a lasting effect on him was the power of the gospel. He further says...

In this blog, I give an abridged version of the biographical sketches of the the first three pastors of Lusaka Baptist Church from 1959 to 1976.  Derek Harris (1959 - 1961) Derek Harris was the first pastor of Lusaka Baptist Church from 1959 - 1961. He played a pioneering role in establishing the church. He was passionate in evangelistic work. Derek Harris was born on 6 April 1927 and was educated and worked in London. Harris was converted during his teens through the Youth Ministry of the Brethren Assembly. He was called to be the first pastor of Lusaka Baptist Church on 1st January 1959. Claude and Charles Kidwell (brothers) were pioneers in establishing the Church and were key in calling Harris to Lusaka Baptist Church. Though the congregation was small initially, it grew in strength and numbers leading to the construction of a church building. Lusaka Baptist was constituted as a church on 2nd July 1961 with the building being opened for worship on 23rd October 1961. Harris's m...

Previously I wrote about my first to London here. In this blog I write about my next visit that I did after a few days. I travelled to London from Chatham in Kent using a train. The trip took about an hour. My next visit in England after Kent was St. Neots in Cambridgeshire. However, before getting there I had a long stopover in London in order to visit some places of interest. My first stop was Metropolitan Tabernacle. To get there I used an underground train from St. Pancras International Station. St. Pancras station is very busy linking London to many cities in the UK as well to the rest of Europe. It has a lot of shops and café’s. I had some good old English breakfast in one of the café’s. The breakfast was quite filling and give me energy to do my rounds in London. After breakfast, I left my luggage to be stored at the baggage section at the station.  I then set out to board the train to Elephant and Castle where the Metropolitan Tabernacle is located. Kunda, my host in Kent...

River Thames During my visit of the UK in September 2019, one of the cities that I visited was London. It was more of a transitory route on my onward travel to Chatham and later to St. Neots. After leaving Tetbury, I travelled by bus to London for 1 hour a journey of 100 miles (160 km). As we approached London, I could sense I was in London without being told. The magnificent buildings I started seeing gave the city away. I alighted the bus from Victoria Station in the heart of London. At the station, I bought some food and then looked for a place to sit so that I could do some work on my laptop. I found a suitable place at Starbucks where I ordered some coffee and worked away. After working for more than a hour, I decided to become a solo tourist. I went to the baggage section at the Victoria Station and left my bag for storage at a fee. Buckingham Palace I followed the clearly labelled signs to begin my touring with my first point of call being at the Buckingham Palace area. O...

On this day, exactly 100 years ago, one of the well-known Evangelical Christian leaders, John Stott was born. John Stott has been known to many Christians mostly through his books and to those that lived in the pre-World War 1 and 2 era's as well the post-world War era's through his preaching both in person and through electronic media. The Time magazine ranked Stott among the 100 most influential people in the world. John Robert Walmsley Stott was born on 27 April 1921 in London, England. His parents were Arnold and Emily Stott. Stott got converted after  hearing Eric Nash deliver a sermon "What Then Shall I Do with Jesus, Who is Called the Christ?" Nash discipled Scott in the Christian Faith as well as in Christian Leadership. Stott studied modern languages at Trinity College, Cambridge. Whilst at University he was active at the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union. In terms of Ministry, Stott was ordained as a deacon in 1945 and became a curate at All Souls C...