Glorious Fellowship Ministries International-Zimbabwe

Friday, September 1, 2017

Our Monthly support goal

OUR MONTHLY SUPPORT GOAL
I Matthew and Paidamoyo Machisa as the chief founding servants of GFMI have the privilege to trust God to provide for our ministry and living expenses through partnerships with organizations, churches and individuals who want to see the rural Zimbabwe and beyond reached with the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
Today people like you are very important to partner with GFMI to fulfill the great commission. Your partnership and friendship will enhance our fulltime ministry through your monthly pledges. We would like to invite you to come and join hands with us by contributing financial support each month. Our Basic monthly support goal is US $1000.
For this to be a reality we need devoted men & women of God who will commit themselves to donate between US$5-$50 each month.

While I am here in USA you can write a designated check to : Matthew Machisa OR

For your month to month support or a one time gift later you can write a check to: Belridge Baptist church for Matthew Machisa/GFMI and send it to:

Bel Ridge Baptist Church

108 Monterey Avenue Belvedere South Carolina 29841

Call 803-279-3366

Donate towards the following NEEDS.

It is another exciting time to be in the States again meeting with supporters. My prayer is that God will be able to raise men and women who can partner with us to fulfill the great commission. We need your prayers, friendship, partnership and financial support. You can become part of a mission team that can come to Africa/Zimbabwe for a church planting, medical outreach, Leadership training program or a borehole drilling outreach. Water is a necessity in Zimbabwe as in most rural areas it is difficult to get clean water and most of the times ground water is not easily accessible because that would take professional equipment to achieve, thus donations towards drilling a borehole will play a pivotal role in making sure there is safe water for the villagers.

Glorious Fellowship Ministries International undertakes to show the love of Christ in the rural places where we have churches and showing them that we care, can you become part of this and make sure that someone in the remote parts of Zimbabwe has clean water? This is your chance!

Below are the needs we have for this 2017 and you can sign up for any need that you feel led towards by the Holy Spirit.

Friday, August 23, 2013

Avenues of Giving and Current Needs

You can send a gift to us

You can choose to support us financially in any one of the categories below:

Avenues of Giving Available

Tents for church services.
Shona Bibles for the believers.
Van for our Ministry travels for better ground clearance and space for to deliver supplies,
Tuition for Bible students.
Rent for our monthly accommodation, food and bills.
Tuition to help with our kids' schooling.
Expenses for ministry travel as we move around to encourage the churches.
Church planting programs

CURRENT NEEDS

TENT FOR CHURCH SERVICES

A GOOD SIZE CHURCH TENT TO HELP WITH SHELTER FOR THE BELIEVERS WILL COST US$2000. SIGN UP FOR A DESIGNATED GIFT TOWARDS A CHURCH TENT!

PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM

WE NEED A PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM THAT CAN HELP WITH OUR GOSPEL OUTREACHES. PEOPLE IN ZIMBABWE RESPONDS TO THE GOSPEL SO WELL AND COMES IN LARGE NUMBERS MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO ADDRESS THEM WITHOUT A P.A SYSTEM. US$ 1500.00 CAN HELP US TO PURCHASE A SOUND SYSTEM THAT CAN HELP US A LONG WAY.
FEEL FREE TO CONTACT US FOR A DESIGNATED GIFT TOWARDS THE P.A SYSTEM

MINISTRY VAN

We thank God that we have been able to buy a van from Japan and it is arriving the month end of April. We thank all of you for the support you have given to Glorious fellowship Ministries international. We saw God's grace during our American tour.

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

11 believers Baptised at Life of Glory Centre in Gweru

I praise God as he raising his church here in Gweru. A man gave his Life to the Lord and became part of our church as we had been worshipping with his wife.Yesterday the 24th of July 2012 we baptised 11 believers!It is amazing and we look forward to baptise a few more this coming week.

Continue to pray for our ministry to grow and that we may continue to make an impact in people's lives for Christ.
Again we have an upcoming conference in Mudzi District in which I am working extra hard to rent a vehicle and take the whole church from Gweru to encourage the churches in Mudzi.All the churches will be meeting at Golden crown centre led by Pastor Sheunopa Sibanda.

Pray for financial breakthroughs and that this conference will set a new direction for GFMI through the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Amen!

A member being baptised by Apostle Matt Machisa

Pastor Shumba right, posing with a group of church members whom we baptised on the 24th of July here in gweru.This is a major step we have made as a church.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

NEW SOULS BEING ADDED TO THE CHURCH IN MUDZI

Many new souls are being added to the churches in Mudzi.It is exciting that at Here is Life Center the people were added from 10 to 8 people.Last Sunday they were 18!The headman of the area also received Christ.

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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

Apostle Matthew Machisa