Sunday, May 27, 2012
Pleaz Urgently Arise And Pray For Zanzibar and The Body of Christ In Zanzibar
Last midnight a group of more than 700 radical extremist muslims made unexpected ambush at the "Tanzania Assemblies Of God Church(TAG) in Zanzibar and succeeded to burn and destroy the Bishop's car and attempted to burn the Church building by petrol and fired,also they destroy the altar with sound and music equipment and big number of the plastic chairs.
If that was seemed enough they even dared to ambush another evangelical church which is called Deeper Life Ministries and forced the Christians and their leaders not to try move out of the Church but remain inside while they were busy plotting what they were to do against them,however before they reached to their target they were scatterd by the Riot Police Unit.
Following to that chaos,no any public cars made normal trips to and fro Zanzibar town today and many properties have been destroyed.Fire tires,road stone blocks and tearing-gass have been covering the town and some of its outskirts of Zanzibar
Police are doing what they can to restore peace and stability and security while seven people who are said to be the leaders of that group have been arrested and more searching is on the way.
Pray for us and keep Pray for Zanzibar.
P.S.Due to difficulty of getting access to internet caffe in Zanzibar town therefore couldn't manage to send u really picture of particular incidence how ever I hope to do so this morning.The attached picture was taken from the EAGZ CHURCH in Zanzibar.
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."
2 comments:
We are definitely praying for all of you - that God will be a wall of fire round about you and He will be the Glory in your midst. Pleading the Blood of Jesus over Zanzibar and the Family of God there. Speaking Psalm 91 over all of you for your Divine protection. Sending my love in Christ, your sister in the Great Harvest, Teresa Tullar
We are definitely praying for all of you - that God will be a wall of fire round about you and He will be the Glory in your midst. Pleading the Blood of Jesus over Zanzibar and the Family of God there. Speaking Psalm 91 over all of you for your Divine protection. Sending my love in Christ, your sister in the Great Harvest, Teresa Tullar
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