Monday, April 23, 2012

New Threats to Stop the Church Growing

Matthew 16:18 "And I say to thee. thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." The Church in Zanzibar has much to rely on this prophecy given by the Founder of our Truely Faith Jesus Christ,because what is real happen here is unbelievable to any one with good mind but just it happens.Because how possible the people who belong to the same nation,constitutions,laws,color and government can treat others like unworthy thing just because they don`t believe and worship the way they don`t want them to do!!!!! It was in April 1st,2012 in the midnight were by suspected radical extremists attacked and destroyed the Church building the property of "The Church Of God" situated at Kianga village in Unguja.The incidence came with a big shocking to the numbers of not only the members and the leaders of the particular Church but to many Christians living in Zanzibar because what is believed to many of them is a very strategic plots to seize Churches from expanding and growing in Zanzibar Islands as many such attempts have been taking place in series and many efforts to report the cases to Police but nothing is seemed as to change these danger plots.
I recieved a call from Bishop Nego who is a pioneer of the denomination saying he is with his Christian members at their Church compound and that they were totally confused when they arrived so they could start their Sunday Service as usually but found their Church building have been broken-down purposely by suspected radical extremists in an attempt to terrify them not to carry on existence of the Church in that area and else where in Zanzibar.How ever there was some accusations done against the presence of the Church in that area by some known people from the neighborhood areas complaining against the Church but they failed to stand their accusations in the authority levels,maybe the broken-down can be as the alternative way to abolish the Church after all their lawful measure they tried but failed.
. If that is not enough,the other shocking news reported by the Bishop of the TAG (Tanzania Assemblies Of God)in Zanzibar was so bad and could shock the world and mark a very bad image was the Boom threw to the Church compound during the Christmas where Christian members of that Church together with their leaders were carrying on with their service activities then they detected a Boom which was plotted to kill them and destroy the whole building if couldn`t be detected and defused by special depart from the security force arrived their after being reported.That Church accommodates more than four hundreds members at a time and imagine it was during a Christmas where the numbers was beyond normal so could kills many many people,but bad enough they report was just remained silence and no one until this time has been arrested even no any feed back given to the Bishop of what is going on regarding to such very dangerous threat which could swept hundreds souls of the Christians in the history of Zanzibar since on religious conflict. Please we need to pray that God may protect the peace and security not only of the Christian people but of for the whole country as at large but when need to ask the Government of Zanzibar and The United Republic Of Tanzania to take a serious measure to prevent these issue of breaking the laws done by certain groups or individual to affect and destroying others freedom of worship according to both Constitutions of the United Republic of Tanzania and of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar and we call for the International Community to open its eyes now and support of Government to abolish these growing numbers of threats against Christian worship in Zanzibar,because we have all the reason to believe that there must be an underground group or groups and network which are behind these painful scenes, and we should not wait them become sustainable and matured to cost alot of the resources like other ones in many other countries. And to those who organize and utilizes their threats against the Church in Zanzibar here is the message to you Romans 8:35-39 "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ...Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

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The Long Way The Church Was And Is to Go

Zanzibar Island is the informal designation for the Islands of Unguja and Pemba situated in the Indian Ocean.



However during the Age of Exploration ,in 1498 the Portuguese Empire was the first European power to gain control of Zanzibar, and kept it for nearly 200 years until in 1698 Zanzibar fell under the control of the Sultanate of Oman and obviously ( build the Mosque of Allah is believed by the Islam so ever influenced the mode of belief of the entire generations of the Zanzibaris until today ).

Muslim traders from the Persian Gulf had settled through southern hemisphere of Unguja early in the 10th century after monsoon winds propelled them through the Gulf of Aden and Somalia. Zanzibar archipelago united with Tanganyika to form the present day Tanzania in 1964.

The rise of the minority Christian community relies on different means of their introductory causes ,as Christianity has diverse rich forms of denominations therefore there were some denominations which were being introduced in Zanzibar through historical factors like Colonialism period whereby the Colonial empires which were established in the forms of the national denominations were easily made their side by spreading their belief such of these are Anglican Christians through British Empire and Roman Catholic through Portuguese, Lutheran through German Empires .

How ever in 1974 there were other Christian Churches were introduced in Zanzibar after Independence of Zanzibar then the United Republic of Tanzania such these Churches were the Lutheran Christians and Evangelical Christians (Pentecostal) etc.

Praise God, as from the Church Rev.Leonard Masasa was pastoring were rose men who decided to go out and established new churches of different denominations such as Elim Pentecost, Tanzania Assemblies of God, Zanzibar Pentecostal Church, Free Pentecostal, and many other churches have been established in Zanzibar Islands.

In 1995 Rev.Leonard left the church he used to pastor since 1984 and established a new Church which "The Evangelistic Assemblies of God Zanzibar (EAGZ)" and was started until this day he is pastoring that Church.

The EAGZ Church has succeeded by the grace of God to open other Churches.How ever more efforts is done as to equip these churches and also pray hard to find up some means we can do more in other places, if God may open doors.

The recent research have shows that Islam religion has 95.% followed by Hindus and others 2.05% ,Catholic and Anglican 1.% ,Lutheran 0.01%, Evangelicals 0.05% of all people.

Please when you visit the Islands of Zanzibar feel free to visit us too and as you are still afar we therefore requesting your fervent and effective prayers so that this work may go forward and so many Zanzibaris could find their chance to know and believe in Jesus Christ...Amen.



Matthew 20:19-20
"19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them ina the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (NIV)

Matthew 24:14
"14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come" (NIV)

Roman 8:28
"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.(NIV)"

Matthew 19:26
"Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."