History of the Zambia Baptist Association 1905-2005

L. Frey

Description

Much good academic work has been done on the mainline churches in many African countries. But less so on the "smaller" missions and the churches that they founded. This book describes the history of one of the "smaller" churches the Zambia Baptist Association with its roots in Malawi (1905) and its missionary connections to England, South Africa, Sweden, Australia and finally to the Liebenzell Mission in Germany. It is thus one of the many contributions needed for the writing of a history of the Evangelical churches of Africa.

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• Publié par: Luviri Press
• Date de parution: 17 novembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789996066498
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

Extrait

Reinhard L. Frey, born 1958, started his working life as an electrician in 1973. A�er his theological studies at the seminary of the Liebenzell Mission lnternaonal 1979-1984, he joined the Mission and became a missionary in Zambia from 1986 to 2002. He returned with his family to Germany in 2002 and pastored a church and was responsible for a church district in the South of Germany. In 1997 he received his MA in Missiology from Columbia lnternaonal University. He received his PhD, on which this book is based, from the University of Malawi, Zomba in 2007. Since 2015 he is back in Zambia as a missionary of Liebenzell Mission lnternaonal working in cooperaon with the Zambia Bapst Associaon in the Chrisan Educaon Programme. He is also teaching at the Evangelical University and at a Bible College.

Much good academic work has been done on the mainline churches in many African countries. But less so on the "smaller" missions and the churches that they founded. This book describes the history of one of the "smaller" churches the Zambia Bapst Associaon with its roots in Malawi (1905) and its missionary connecons to England, South Africa, Sweden, Australia and finally to the Liebenzell Mission in Germany. It is thus one of the many contribuons needed for the wring of a history of the Evangelical churches of Africa.

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History of the Zambia Bapst History of t A h s e so Z c a ia m  b o ia n B 1 a 9 p 0  5 s - t 2005 Associaon 1905-2005

Reinhard L. Frey

Reinhard L. Frey

History of the Zambia Baptist Association

Copyright 2020 Reinhard L. Frey All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission from the publishers. Published by Luviri Press P/Bag 201 Luwinga Mzuzu 2 Malawi ISBN 978-99960-66-48-1 eISBN 978-99960-66-49-8 Luviri Press is represented outside Malawi by: African Books Collective Oxford ([e-mail]) www.luviripress.blogspot.com www.africanbookscollective.com Cover picture: Evangelists in July 1939 with their teachers Olive Doke and Carina Bellin Editorial assistance and cover: Daniel Neumann and Josephine Kawejere

 3 History of the Zambia Baptist Association 1905-2005 ReinhardL. Frey Luviri Press Mzuzu 2020

 4 C ONTENTS INTRODUCTION 9 CHAPTER 1 12 JOSEPH BOOTH 12 I NTRODUCTION ................................................................................................12 T HE E ARLY L IFE OF J OSEPH B OOTH AND THE D IRECTION TOWARDS A FRICA ..................13 B OOTH ' S F IRST M ISSION : THE Z AMBEZI I NDUSTRIAL M ISSION ................................17... J OSEPH B OOTH , HIS M ANY A DVENTURES AND HIS I NTERDENOMINATIONAL A TTITUDE .......................................................................................................21 B OOTH AS A W RITER AND P UBLISHER ...................................................................29 J OSEPH B OOTH ,J OHN C HILEMBWE AND THE R ISING OF 1915 ..................................32 C ONCLUSION ...................................................................................................39 CHAPTER 2 40 THE NYASA INDUSTRIAL MISSION AND THE LAMBALAND 40 A N O VERVIEW OF THE NIM AND ITS E STABLISHMENT .............................................40 T HE E VANGELISTIC O UTREACH OF NIM ................................................................44 NIM IN N EIGHBOURING C OUNTRIES .......................47............................................. NIM IN L AMBALAND ........................................................................................48 S PHERES OF I NFLUENCE IN Z AMBIA (C OMITY ) ........................................................59 CHAPTER 3 64 THE SOUTH AFRICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY 64 H ISTORY OF THE B APTISTS IN S OUTH A FRICA .........................................................64 T HE SABMS AND ITS M ISSION ...........................................................................66 T HE SABMST AKES OVER THE NIMW ORK IN L AMBALAND .....................................67 T HE S PIRITUAL G ROWTH OF THE L EADERS AND E VANGELISTS ....................................92 S UMMARY ......................................................................................................94 CHAPTER 4 96 THE SCANDINAVIAN INDEPENDENT BAPTIST UNION 96 T HE F RIBAPTISTSAMFUNDET –T HE S CANDINAVIAN I NDEPENDENT B APTIST U NION ...........................................................................................................96 S CANDINAVIAN I NDEPENDENT B APTIST U NION STARTS IN M PONGWE AREA .................97 S UMMARY ....................................................................................................102

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CHAPTER 5 104 THE AUSTRALIAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY TAKES OVER FROM THE SABMS 104 T HE S TRUGGLE OF THE SABMS ........................................................................104 T HE A USTRALIAN B APTIST M ISSIONARY S OCIETY ..................................................106 T HE ABMS AND THE L AMBALAND M ISSION ........................106................................ T HE F IGHT FOR K AFULAFUTA –KMS AND THE GCMS ..........................................115 S UMMARY ....................................................................................................120 CHAPTER 6 121 THE BEGINNING OF THE URBAN CHURCH WORK IN COLONIAL ZAMBIA 121 T HE C OPPERBELT –C HURCH ,S OCIAL D EVELOPMENT AND P OLITICAL I NFLUENCE ........122 T HE U NION C HURCHES ON THE C OPPERBELT .......................................................126 T HE B EGINNING OF THE C HURCH W ORK ON THE C OPPERBELT 30.1................................ N DOLA F REE C HURCH .....................................................................................132 L UANSHYA B APTIST C HURCH ............................................................................139 L USAKA B APTIST C HURCH ................................................................................147 T HE E XTENSION FROM S OUTH A FRICA TO Z IMBABWE ............................................151 T HE B ACKGROUND AND D EVELOPMENTS OF THE BUCA ........................................153 T HE M ISSIONARY P OLICY OF THE BUCA .............................................................156 K ITWE ,C HINGOLA AND M UFULIRA W ORK ..........................................................160 K ITWE B APTIST C HURCH ................................................................16..1................ C HINGOLA B APTIST F ELLOWSHIP .......................................................................164 M UFULIRA B APTIST F ELLOWSHIP .......................................................................167 L IVINGSTONE AND K ABWE W ORK .....................................................761................. C ONCLUSION .................................................................................................169 CHAPTER 7 170 THE BAPTIST UNION OF CENTRAL AFRICA IN INDEPENDENT ZAMBIA 170 N DOLA B APTIST C HURCH ........................1...27...................................................... L UANSHYA B APTIST C HURCH ............................................................................180 L USAKA B APTIST C HURCH ................................................................................187 K AUNDA S QUARE F ELLOWSHIP .........................................................................194 M OUNT M AKULU ..........................................................................................195 H OME F ELLOWSHIPS G ROUPS OF LBC................................................................196 I NVOLVEMENT OF LBC IN OTHER C HURCHES AND M INISTRIES .................................196 E MMASDALE "B APTIST "C HURCH ......................................................................197 K ABWATA B APTIST C HURCH .............................................................................199

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L USAKA B APTIST C HURCH AND ITS R ELATIONSHIP TO THE Z AMBIA B APTIST A SSOCIATION ................................................................................................201 U RBAN O UTREACH P ROGRAMME ..................................................................202.... T HE R EFORMED B APTIST M OVEMENT ................................................................212 C ONCLUSION .................................................................................................218 CHAPTER 8 219 THE TOWNSHIP CHURCHES ON THE COPPERBELT 219 N DOLA D ISTRICT ............................................................................................223 K ABUSHI B APTIST C HURCH ...............................................................224................ K OLA B APTIST C HURCH ( ALSO C ALLED L IME W ORKS ) ............................................228 K APALA B APTIST C HURCH ................................................................................228 L UBUTO B APTIST C HURCH ................................................................................229 M ASALA B APTIST C HURCH .............922.................................................................. C HIFUBU B APTIST C HURCH ..............................................................................234 N KWAZI B APTIST C HURCH ...............................................................................238 M USHILI B APTIST C HURCH ...............................................................................421 H ILLCREST B APTIST C HURCH .............................2.4.3.............................................. L UANSHYA D ISTRICT .......................................................................................245 K ITWE D ISTRICT .............................................................................................252 M UFULIRA D ISTRICT .......................................................................................266 F AIRVIEW R EFORMED B APTIST C HURCH IN M UFULIRA .....................8..62.................... C HINGOLA D ISTRICT ........................................................................................269 C HIWEMPALA B APTIST C HURCH ........................................................................269 M USENGA B APTIST C HURCH ............................................................................272 N CHANGA U NION B APTIST C HURCH ..................................................................273 C HILILABOMBWE B APTIST C HURCH 2.57................................................................... S UMMARY ....................................................................................................276 T HE S OUTHERN B APTISTS , THE L AMBALAND M ISSION AND THE Z AMBIA A SSOCIATION ................................................................................................283 CHAPTER 9 288 THE FORMATION OF THE ZBA AND ITS FIRST INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS 288 C ONSTITUTION OF THE ZBA .............................................................................293 T HE ZBAS TRUCTURE ......................................................................................295 T HE ZBAF UNCTION .......................................................................................295 T HE F IRST S TEPS OF THE N EWLY F ORMED ZBA AND ITS R ELATIONSHIP TO BUCA .......298 T HE I NTERNATIONAL M INERS 'M ISSION ................................730..............................

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T HE C ONSERVATIVE B APTIST F OREIGN M ISSION S OCIETY .......................................312 CHAPTER 10 315 THE GROWTH AND EXPANSION OF THE ZAMBIA BAPTIST ASSOCIATION 315 T HE F IRST A DMINISTRATIVE S ECRETARY OF THE ZBA.............................................315 T HE C RISES WITHIN ZBA– THE F REE B APTISTS .....................................................317 Z AMBIA B APTIST A SSOCIATION W ORK O UTSIDE THE C OPPERBELT ...........................320 K ABWE D ISTRICT ............................................................................................320 S IAVONGA D ISTRICT 24.3....................................................................................... S OLWEZI D ISTRICT ..........................................................................................330 CHAPTER 11 342 MINISTRIES OF THE ZAMBIA BAPTIST ASSOCIATION 342 Y OUTH M INISTRY ...........................................................................................342 S UNDAY S CHOOL D EPARTMENT ........................................................................352 BAW OMEN ' S M INISTRY .................................................................................355 E VANGELISTIC W ORK –G OOD N EWS M INISTRY (F ILM M INISTRY ) ...........................373 E DUCATION D EPARTMENT ...............................................................................378 O RDINATION AND ITS U NDERSTANDING .........................................385..................... S UMMARY ....................................................................................................390 CHAPTER 12 392 THE BAPTIST UNION OF ZAMBIA AND THE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP 392 T HE BEGINNING OF THE B APTIST U NION OF Z AMBIA ..................................39....3........ N EW D EVELOPMENTS IN THE BUZ AND ITS C RISES ................................................403 F IWALE H ILL B IBLE C OLLEGE 014............................................................................. T HE E VANGELICAL F ELLOWSHIP OF Z AMBIA 8..14....................................................... T HEOLOGICAL C OLLEGE OF C ENTRAL A FRICA (TCCA) ............................................422 CHAPTER 13 426 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE LMI AND ITS OUTREACH 426 T HE F IRST C ONTACTS WITH THE LMI..................................................................426 T HE L IEBENZELL M ISSION I NTERNATIONAL (LMI) .................................................430 L IEBENZELL AS A F AITH M ISSION .......................................................................433 S UMMARY ....................................................................................................444 T HE ZBAI NITIATIVE TO R EACH OUT INTO THE N ORTHERN P ROVINCE .......................445 K ASAMA B APTIST C HURCH 45.4.............................................................................. T HE B EGINNING OF K ASAMA B APTIST C HURCH ....................................................447 K ASAMA B APTIST C HURCH AND ITS D EVELOPMENT ...............................................452

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C HAFWA B APTIST C HURCH ,E XTENSION W ORK OF K ASAMA B APTIST C HURCH ...........456 M APALO B APTIST C HURCH ,E XTENSION W ORK OF K ASAMA B APTIST C HURCH ...........459 M UNGWI B IBLE S TUDY DEVELOPS INTO M UNGWI B APTIST C HURCH ........................462 S UMMARY ....................................................................................................471 T HE E XTENSION OF THE C HURCH W ORK WITHIN THE N ORTHERN P ROVINCE ..............471 M PULUNGU B APTIST C HURCH ..........................................................................472 I SOKA B APTIST C HURCH ..................................................................746................. M PIKA B APTIST C HURCH .................................................................................479 T HE N EW E VANGELISTIC O UTREACH TO N ABWALYA ..............................................484 M BALA B APTIST C HURCH ................................................................................484 N AKONDE B APTIST C HURCH ............................................4.68................................ C HINSALI B APTIST C HURCH ..............................................................................492 T HE L EADERSHIP P ROGRAMME IN THE N ORTHERN P ROVINCE .................................493 S UMMARY ....................................................................................................506 CHAPTER 14 509 SOCIAL AND LITERATURE WORK OF THE ZBA IN THE NORTHERN PROVINCE 509 M UNGWI C LINIC , THE M EDICAL P ROJECT OF ZBA ................................................512 M UNGWI A GRICULTURE P ROJECT .......................12.......5........................................ S UMMARY OF THE S OCIAL I NVOLVEMENTS OF THE ZBA .........................................532 T HE C HRISTIAN B OOKSHOPS ................................................5...43.......................... S UMMARY ....................................................................................................537 C ONCLUSION :AM ISSIOLOGICAL P ERSPECTIVE ....853................................................. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ZBA 559 APPENDICES 564 S ISTER G UNHILD R OTT ....................................................................................564 T REE OF H ISTORY ...........................................................................................567 ZBAE XECUTIVE M EMBERS FROM 1971 TILL 2000 ..............................................568 T HE M AP OF Z AMBIA .....71.5................................................................................ C OAT OF A RMS OF Z AMBIA ..............................................................................571 P ICTURES .....................................................................................................72.5 BIBLIOGRAPHY 584 M AGAZINES ..................................................................................................590 J OURNALS .....................................................................................................591 U NPUBLISHED S OURCES ..................................................................................592 I NDEX ..........................................................................................................594

Introduction

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The Baptists came to Zambia at the beginning of the last century (1905). The Baptists in Zambia had quite a big influence especially among the Lamba people to whom the pioneers felt called. A Baptist church developed together with the educational work of a boys' school and a clinic. To understand the history of the Zambia Baptist Association (ZBA), there is need to look into the two main historical 'streams' the ZBA derived from. One stream came from Malawi through the Nyasa Industrial Mission (NIM), which was later taken over by the South African Baptist Missionary Society (SABMS). The SABMS directed the Scandinavian Baptist Mission Society to the Mpongwe area to start mission work, which developed into Mpongwe Baptist Association (MBA). Due to the political tensions between South Africa and Zambia after independence in 1964, the SABMS finally withdrew and the Australian Baptist Missionary Society took over the work among the Lamba people, which became the Northern Baptist Association of Zambia (NBAZ). The other historical stream came from Zimbabwe. A few local Baptist churches, also connected to the Baptist Union of South Africa (BUSA), formed the Rhodesian Baptist Association (RBA), which became the Baptist Union of Central Africa (BUCA). BUCA entered Zambia and 1 concentrated their work on the Copperbelt , where Rev A.J. Cross, the missionary from the SABMS focused his attention. In the beginning, the BUCA churches were white churches, but due to the influence of George 2 Smith, vernacular churches were established and spread to all the towns on the Copperbelt. The International Miners' Mission assisted BUCA in financing church buildings and pastors. The ZBA became BUCA in Zambia. In mid 1970s, three associations, the NBAZ, the MBA and the ZBA formed the Baptist Union of Zambia (BUZ). In the mid-1980s, the Liebenzell Mission International (LMI) came to work in partnership with

1  Copperbelt refers collectively to the towns within the Copperbelt Province and the area from Ndola up to Chingola where the mining of copper takes place. 2  In the case of Ndola, Kabushi Baptist Church was re-established, see below.