Glorious Fellowship Ministries International-Zimbabwe: A woman receives Christ during our visitation session

Saturday, May 21, 2011

A woman receives Christ during our visitation session

Matt sharing GFMI vision with a new convert who have just received Jesus Christ Yesterday,20/05/11 during a visitation session in Mambo.Mrs Mazhanji had been having problems with her daughter who is being used by demonic forces.She blamed God for this but after sharing the love of God with her she realized her need for Christ and prayed the sinner's prayer.Continue to pray for the deliverance of her daughter as we continue to fellowship together.

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GFMI

Purpose
To be a living witness of the Lord Jesus by helping to fulfill the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew 28:18-20.

Mission
To help believers to live the Christian Life through the power of the Holy Spirit in and out of season characterized by a consistent walk and faith in Jesus Christ.

Vision
To build the body of Christ by planting new churches everywhere possible especially in remote and rural areas by preaching the true and sound gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

BIBLE SCHOOL FOR GFMI

GLORIOUS SCHOOL OF MINISTRY

I have a vision of starting a school of ministry which will cater for training our own leaders in regard with our vision. We need to have the curriculum tailor made to suit our vision so that we produce leaders who understand our vision and why we exist. Rural ministry is a tough task which requires a lot of obedience, faithfulness and focus otherwise it maybe easy to divert and start to look for financial gains.

We are looking for partners who can help us achieve this vision which we plan to start mid 2018. We need the curriculum for the school, library to help with research and studies of the emerging leaders. You are free to contact us if you are interested in seeing this vision come to fulfillment.

Prayer Requests Corner

Pray for the leadership development program we have started at church.We are now intensifying leadership trainings as to have people who are capable to fulfill our God given vision.

Pray for the Lord's provision for our accommodation rental finances.

Pray for the provision of our car for the work of Ministry.

Pray for the provision of our pastors whom the Lord is raising to be in full time ministry.

Pray for the two church planting we have scheduled for this year in Mudzi District and Harare District that these churches will be able to stand.

2018 Teams for Zimbabwe

Trinity Point Church

One of our partner church, Trinity Point is beginning to plan and putting together two teams that will be coming to serve alongside GFMI. We do not yet have fixed dates but provisionally that should be June 2018 for the first team and the second team should come to Zimbabwe in August 2018.

Your church can sign up to bring a mission team to Zimbabwe! Email: mattmachisa@yahoo.com for more information.

Apart from mission work we will have time make teams connect with our motherland Zimbabwe! You will have a chance to see many exciting things, the Victoria Falls, Great Zimbabwe ruins, Largest game park in africa-The Hwange National park just to name the least.

Come meet the friendly people of Zimbabwe (The house of Stone)

OUR PRESENT MINISTRY PLANS

GFMI CURRENT STATE

Romans 12:2, "And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God."

Ministry is a journey that we walk, talk and live for the glory of heaven. It has always been a joy for me to serve the Lord always planning to do the best for my Master Jesus Christ.

I give all credit to the Lord Jesus Christ for this far that he has taken us, how he has corrected me to keep focused on the vision of rural ministry, planting churches and growing leaders for the vision. Our ministry started in the midlands province in the city of Gweru, that became my family's home town but that was not the Lord's plan. He spoke to us to move out of that town to go where he really wanted to make use of us! We resisted, but the more we did the more we felt his presence vanishing away from us and the more complicated things became, we lost our joy because of the fight that was going on in our hearts. Glory to God that I and Paida came to a point of understanding the will of God and followed it.

Good ideas are not always God's ideas! We had our own good ideas for the city of Gweru and you may want to know how the Lord taught us to obey.
We stayed 7 years in Gweru and the church there flourished, we were able to raise many leaders for ministry, we split the church into three and gave other leaders the chance to lead on their own, we were so excited and raring to go but some of the leaders failed completely! Sinful living and marriage challenges worked them down, we lost two church leaders this way. We never got tired, we gave other emerging leaders the opportunity to lead the churches, but as soon as they started leading they would be transferred out of town to other places and we would be left stranded again as all our pastors do something for a living as they serve the Lord through GFMI.

Finally we had to close two churches in Gweru and merged them into one church again. I was so much in pain for a long time and asked the Lord why he would allow this to happen and the answer always came out as, "Move out of this place and go to serve where I want to use you" Finally we packed our bags in 2016 to go and start ministry work in Mutoko. We are so revived and refreshed as there is an amazing response, we can work at the new church (Rose of Sharon) and at the same time we can easily visit the Mudzi churches with less struggles.

The Pastor we left in Gweru continued to have struggles too, the church just remained unfruitful. The Apostle Paul urged Titus to teach the believers to be fruitful. Titus 3:14, "And let our people go on with good works for necessary purposes, so that they may not be without fruit."

We made a decision to just have the church as a house church and transfer the Pastor to come and work with the new church in Mutoko. Pastor Prosper Gumbo will be moving to Mutoko end of September 2017 to take full responsibility at Rose of Church which is currently under the leadership of Paida my wife with the help of Pastor Dickson who will be traveling from Harare occasionally to help whilst I am here in the U.S.

We have scaled down from 7 churches to 4 churches that are thriving in the spirit. Initially it seemed to me as if this was a huge set back but later to realize that the Lord is at work and we are growing strong as a ministry. It is not about the number but the impact we are having in the communities and lives that are being changed for Jesus.

Glory to God

In Christ

Matt Machisa

Glorious Fellowship Ministries International-Zimbabwe

Apostle Matthew Machisa

Saturday, May 21, 2011

A woman receives Christ during our visitation session

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