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Zambia
Clement Mwanza
PastorClement Mwanza is the pastor of Nyimba Reformed Baptist Church in Zambia. He received his ministerial training from Lusaka Ministerial College, through a pastoral internship at Kabwata Baptist Church, and through his studies at Copperbelt Ministerial College. His goal is “to see God’s glory known among the nations by faithfully proclaiming the gospel of Christ.” Clement focuses on evangelizing the lost, as well as growing, equipping, and deploying God’s people for ministry. He desires to “teach people to be rooted in the gospel of God’s glory the Word of God and prayer.” Clement has been in ministry since 2002, and has partnered with HeartCry since 2021. He and his wife, Esther, have been married since 2011.
Testimony
Testimony of Conversion
I grew up in the Northmead Reformed Church of Zambia as a person convinced that the acceptable way of life in the sight of God was as a religious person. I was committed to church programs, activites, and anything else the church put on that I could participate in. I was actually the leader in my Scripture Union youth group during my middle and secondary school years!
On June 7th, 1997, I attended an overnight prayer meeting put on by the late Rev. Abel Siwamezi, my pastor. He preached on the theme of having a personal testimony, and it was at that moment I realized that I had no personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. I was confronted in my heart, and saw how thoroughly lost and in need of a Savior I was.
I cried out to the Lord: repenting of my sins and ultimately surrendering my life to Christ. From this prayer meeting, I encountered the personality of God in a way I could never explain from a mortal point of view. Now I am convinced that Jesus saved me and gave me eternal life. He is living inside of me, and I now live for Christ.
Call to Ministry
As I grew as a Christian, it became an inevitability that I would commit my life to serving the Lord.
In the past years since giving my life to Christ, I have been serving the Lord in various church programs and ministries that include evangelism, missionary work, counseling, and both youth and children’s ministry.
It wouldn’t be until 1999 that I started sensing the overpowering call of God on my heart to serve in a pastoral capacity. As I continued to serve the Lord in various positions, this call became all the more clear to me. In December of 2002, I answered the call of God. Confirmed by both elders and members, I was ordained to the ministry as a pastor by the first church I had ever served in my previous years.
Through all of this, I have maintained a posture of learning, and have continued to be trained. I recently finished being an intern at Kabwata Baptist Church, and was a student at Lusaka Ministerial College.
To bring things up to date, I was ordained for work in Nyimba on January 2, 2022!
Where Clement Serves
Zambia
The Republic of Zambia is a nation which lies in the heart of southern Africa. Formerly the British colony of Northern Rhodesia, it obtained its independence on October 24, 1964. The people of Zambia are most concentrated within the Copperbelt Province in the northwest and in the capital city of…
- Population
- 14,222,000
- Catholic
- 29%
- Evangelical
- 26%