Mark Proeger
Treasurer
In 2021 along the Zambezi where Love’s Door 4 All Nations Zam ministers and shares life there is tremendous transformation where the team has shared life over the past decade.
There is a huge network of multiplying house churches that has become a Holy Spirit-led movement which has resulted in strong marriages and loving families. Domestic abuse, child neglect, and all forms of dysfunction are disappearing rapidly. In rural Zambia the many families have discovered a brand new Biblical worldview.
Orphans have experienced this mighty change as well as they set the example for those around them, by reaching out to others to comfort, care, and share with the needy.
The children are the ones who have started an incredible movement among the youth of moral purity that spreads across this whole region. The youth are models of purity and holiness for the continent of Africa.
Orphans are experiencing what other children in this extended network have received: a high quality of education which they complete eagerly as they launch into higher degrees and various areas of employment. The fully educated children are becoming standouts as leaders in Business, in Education, in free enterprise, in Health Care, as Engineers, and in Government posts. But these leaders never forget their roots as they “give back” and contribute funds and their own time to their families and villages to nurture them into shining examples of community transformation.
These villages are now featured in a number of places in the media as models of community transformation. Orphan care and development in the villages is a model that is being reproduced all over Africa and the world at a grassroots level creating a buzz for the the entire world stage. In this environment creative enterprises have emerged for health care, agriculture, crafts, and trades in a sustainable economic movement that has inspired Africans across the continent.
African men are rising up as spiritual leaders who provide for their families, love and train their children with a new Biblical worldview, and are seen among the many outlying villages evangelizing, praying for healing, participating in deliverances, and sharing the Word with passion. Carrying Jesus further out to the needy.
Individuals are coming from a variety of places across the globe to see and experience what is happening among the villages along the Zambezi. It is an incredible story of how superstitions and taboo and religion, specifically, the New Apostolic Church, have been destroyed by the power and light of Jesus. The many short term teams and visitors return home from their visit in the great Zambezi region fully inspired and charged that the Gospel of Jesus is the only truth for every nation. And the many volunteers who come to be trained and serve with us are being sent around the world to reach the Unreached Peoples and the Poor, and others are returning as long term workers.
Zambians are also being equipped and funded as missionaries to the nations with their practical experience and stories of transformation because of the power of Jesus!
We cannot do anything of value apart from His initiative, His power to accomplish and His indwelling holiness to use these human vessels. We believe our vital connection with Him is our only hope for effective ministry for him.
Our connection to Jesus as well as our response of love to the world, are to be lived out in the context of a loving community. Our church culture has taught us to value individuality, but the Spirit of God is calling us to reignite His value on Corporateness – Oneness. Body life in community is God’s way of refining and empowering – we give ourselves to it, even when it is uncomfortable to the self-life.
God’s Heart is identified with the most vulnerable in this world. As we serve them, we serve Jesus. The HIV pandemic, the worst human tragedy in history, is presenting an opportunity and obligation for the Church of Jesus we cannot miss. The giants that oppress Africa (HIV-AIDS, corrupt leaders, an undiscipled church, poverty, etc) can be overcome within a generation by millions of transformed, highly educated, empowered orphans sent out to lead the continent.
Jesus’ Body on earth is a reflexion of His life and ministry – simply loving people! This creates not an institutional system, but simple groups of believers encouraging one another and worshiping their God. This is the best way to insure sincere faith and mutual discipleship. This is the best way to enable an indigenous movement that is sustainable.
We believe it is better to train a man to fish rather than give him a fish. Therefore we value training, equipping, giving dignity by encouraging personal responsibility. And we discourage giving gifts, creating dependency, creating passivity and beggar mentality.
The job of the Western missionary is to empower the local people, thereby working himself out of a job. In everything we do we are trying to make our systems as simple, reproducible, and transferable as possible.
Millions of young people are disengaged with the church and spiritual things because they have never seen the church being relevant to the issues and needs of the day. As we invite Western young people to come and help in our efforts, we sense the Heart of God to ignite again the youth to dynamic action, leading the world in the cause for Christ. We want to give ourselves to empowering, training and sending of those God sends to us.
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