Zambia
IMD Office, Church Planting and Leadership Development
IMD Africa has opened an office in Zambia. IMD Zambia has a local board and is working alongside two 'faithful men' - one in the Northern Province (Pastor Henry Katontoka) and one in Lusaka (Pastor Moses Zulu, who pastors Rocky View Baptist Church). In Lusaka, we have sponsored and will be sponsoring conferences to train and equip leaders.
We have been involved in church planting in Nabwalya, Muwele, and surrounding areas. In addition, we are busy doing church planting in the Bangweulu swamps of the Northern Province.
The church in Muwele is reaching out to neighboring communities. This church is seeing a spontaneous multiplication of churches. They have also started an orphans ministry, a widows ministry, and a vegetable garden project to benefit the people of these areas.
We are over the halfway mark in translation of 'Train & Multiply' materials into Bemba, as well as Bisa-Lala. We are starting to compile this into booklet form and will begin implementing this programme for 'spontaneous multiplication of churches', in 2005.