november & december 2011 - dowlen road church of...
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1.NAME AND ADDRESS Church of Christ
FROM: Moffat Tsiga Mainway Meadows 1796 Mainway Meadows c/o Good Samaritan Nursery Prospect, Waterfalls and Pre-School Harare, Zimbabwe 342A Masotsha Ndhlovu wa
AFRICA Waterfalls, Harare,
Cell Number: Zimbabwe AFRICA
00263 773 299 627 E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected]
TO: The Elders of
The Dowlen Road Church of Christ
Att: Brother Terry Matthews
CC: Clarence Cowart
[email protected] [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected] Beaumont, TEXAS 78630
UNITED STATES
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WORK/SUPPORT REPORT
NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2011
Moffat Tenson
Canaan
Christian fellowship helps in the growth of new Christians, on picture is Godwin (left) and visiting preacher, Canaan.
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2. LIST OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MY INCOME/SUPPORT THIS LAST TWO MONTHS OF NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2011 AND THE SOURCES OF MY SUPPORT/INCOME (This includes income- financial support from churches, individuals and my own personal endeavours).
FROM CHURCHES: (a) Cedar Park Church of Christ
NOV 2011 DEC 2011 I received a six month income- support in form of cash amounting to z$1 950 to cover my necessities which Includes food, accommodation, work and travel costs, clothing and diabetic supplies, medical emergencies and other special needs for the period mentioned. Therefore income for Nov/Dec 2011 was --$325-00 $325-00
(b) Dowlen Road Church of Christ
NOV 2011 DEC 2011 I received additional support for special needs and my necessities for the month of December 2011 ---------------------------$100-00 $100-00 FROM INDIVIDUALS: 1. We received Emergency medical funds from Travis
Everett to pay for Doctor’s fees, consultation and medical drugs for my mother (Levie Tsiga-63yrs) ---------------- 00-00 $120-00
2. We received additional aid money from David
and Amy Raif, to cover our travel costs for two, to & from Harare [W/falls] – Hwange[Lukhosi church] – Victoria Falls [Mosi-oa-tunya church] on 24th-27th December 2011. ---------------------------- 00-00 $200-00
TOTAL INCOME/SUPPORT $425-00 $745-00
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3. LIST OF THE NAMES OF CONGREGATIONS WITH WHICH I AM WORKING AND THE TOTAL MEMBERSHIP EACH HAS. Mainway Meadows church of Christ in Waterfalls Harare, Zimbabwe is a congregation of the Lord with which I am currently working and the current membership of this congregation is twenty-two families who registered their membership through immersion, and have their permanent and temporary residence in WATERFALLS (i.e. Mainway Meadows, Prospect, Park-Town, Uplands, Short-Stone
& Cheviot), HATFIELD (i.e. Logan Park, Park Meadow-lands), SUNNINGDALE (i.e. 1, 2 and 3), and MBARE. One family (Parvel Sigauke and family) withdrew their membership from Mainway
Meadows this last month to Matabeleland Province (Bulawayo).
Three quarters of the member- ship at Mainway Meadows church have “temporary “ residence, and this means some members are simply tenants in these afore stated locations, they pay rental fees for the use of a house, cottage or room for a specified period.
Sometimes it is very difficult for a local church to successively continue with the same members every time and over a long period because they shift or they get moved from one location to another, usually after expiry of the lease agreement. Therefore, the turnover is very fast and unbearable. This is very common to local churches which are located in the cities and towns.
Sunday AM Worship in W-falls on 4th Dec 2011
4. NAMES AND AGES OF NEW MEMBERS WHO WERE ADDED THIS LAST TWO MONTHS (NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2011) TO THE CONGREGATION WITH WHICH I AM WORKING AT MAINWAY MEADOWS CHURCH OF CHRIST. No new members were added in the month of November and December 2011 to the congregation with which I am currently working, but we continued teaching work to those recently baptized (see pictures below).
5. WORK BEING DONE IN TEACHING THE NEW CONVERTS: This last month, we continued Bible studies with new converts and new prospects on a set of lesson/topics in the New Testament. We are studying from the book of Ephesians and
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this last month (November 2011) we looked at chapters 4, 5 and 6, the inspired writer revealed God’s plan that redeemed the Ephesians from sin’s darkness. This plan is the great doctrine of salvation – the salvation that God designed to be found only in His Church.
8th November 2011: On the above picture, from left is Tendai Mufundisi (new convert), sited on the middle is Tatenda Chidarikire (new prospect), and I on the far right at our home in Waterfalls. I studied the Bible with Godwin jnr (left) who was converted to Christ end of last year and Trust (18) a new prospect who has developed interest in studying the Bible and attending church services every time. This young man has a strong denomina- tional background, but I’m very happy because he likes his Bible and is prepared to learn and accept the truth of God’s Word. 6. HERE IS A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE PREACHING/TEACHING WORK I HAVE DONE THIS LAST TWO MONTHS OF NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 2011:
(a) TEACHING WORK TO THE LOCAL CHURCH AT MAINWAY
MEADOWS IN WATERFALLS, HARARE, ZIMBABWE:
(i) WORSHIP ON SUNDAYS: In the month of November and December we continued with all our worship services and mid-week edification and devotional gatherings as usual. We are a congregation which cannot afford to meet/assemble for worship and bible studies on a daily basis exactly like what was done and practised by the church we read about in the book of conversions [Acts of the Apostles], but we are encouraging brethren not to forsake assembly (Heb 10:25), but to attend all Sunday services, all day and mid-week evening bible studies of the church, for the purpose of learning MORE about God's Word (1 Peter 2:2), loving their brethren and DESIRE to be with them
(1 Peter2:17b), SETTING THE RIGHT EXAMPLE for their families and other people (1 Timothy 4:12), and ENCOURAGING workers in the church (Acts 15:36).
10:00 am -------- Main Service (morning worship) 12:00 noon -------- Song Service (congregational singing) 12:15 pm -------- Bible Study (all classes’ i.e. adult class,
Children class, combined class) 6:00 pm -------- Wednesday Mid-Week Home Bible
Studies and Prayers On Sunday 11th, Wilesi (right) accepted the invite to Waterfalls Church where he preached spoke to brethren at morning service and continued his message at a combined bible study until noon. We had a good and memorable fellowship.
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(ii) ADULT CLASS: This past two months I
made all efforts to
maintain the adult class
where I met with men
& women of the church
who were interested in
the truth and teachings
of the Bible. With the
help of
other
gospel
teachers/preachers whom the local brethren
here invited them to our church in November and December, we
joined hands and efforts in the work of teaching the adult class. Our
encouragement was basically targeting a very typical example of
the Berean people (Acts 17:10-11) whose example is one which all
people should follow today. They studied, received the Word with
eargerness. They examined the scriptures daily. They wanted to
knowthat what Paul taught was true (1 Jn 4:1; 1 Thess 5:21). The
result of such earnest searching is that many people will believe.
iv) CHILDREN CLASS:
Surely, our children are not given us to do with as we please, they are not our property, they are God’s children given into our care, so we can raise them to be what God wants them to be. Members of the congregation with which i work are continually joining hands together to follow a God given command of raising children in a Bible way.
Adut Class - Sun 20th Nov
Tenson leads Adult Class - Sun 20th Nov
at Mainway Meadows church in Waterfalls
I studied the Bible with Men of
Lukhosi church - Sun 25th Decembe 2011
Children’s songs
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(b) TEACHING AND PREACHING WORK [BIBLE STUDIES] I HAVE
DONE TO MANY OTHERS OUTSIDE A CONGREGATIONAL CLASS
SETTING, AT OUR HOME IN WATERFALLS, OPEN SPACE AND IN
THE HOMES OF CHRISTIANS, NON CHRISTIANS, REFERRALS, NON-
MEMBERS SPOUSES etc:
(ii)Bible Study with Marshall, Lovemore, Godwin and Trust Chidarikire (18) at 2:30pm on Monday 12TH December 2011:
(iii). Bble Study with Judith Sachinda (2nd from left),Tatenda Chidarikire (3rd from left), Faith Chidarikire, Tinotenda Dondo (far right) and Aisha Makore at 4:30 pm on Saturday 19th November 2011:
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Women of the church at Mainway Meadows continued steadfastly in study
of the Bible, fellowship and in prayers. From left on A-pic: sister Arena Sachinga and
sister Mhlanga. From left on B-pic: sister Juliana (my wife), sister Judith Sachinda and sister Aisha Makore (in dark shade). From left on C-pic: sister Susan Magwa and sister Peggy Mufundisi.
Moffatt Tsiga
ZIMBABWE
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