Wenslus Murape
Latwell Nyangu
THE APOSTOLIC Faith Mission in Zimbabwe, re-elected president Reverend Amon Madawo has assured believers that the church is burying previous factional battles and is now focused on uniting the leaders.
Rev Madawo was voted back into office for a second term recently by the church’s national election council.
“We want to thank God for putting it into the hearts of AFM general election national council to elect me to be the president of AFM in Zimbabwe for the second term.
“Our past term was full of challenges, full of legal battles, and trying to bring cohesion among the leaders
“But we are looking forward by the grace of God this coming term since it’s a term of building unity and cohesion among the leaders.
“Previously people had different mindsets but we thank God that towards the end of the last term, leaders were coming together including pastors, deacons, and elders in understanding where the church is going,” he said.
About previous nasty fights, Madawo said:
“The first fights were centred around the previous constitution which we amended, it had a lot of grey areas that were misinterpreted, but this amended constitution will bring unity.
“It has made our leaders focused and the fights are among leaders, not the church members but this is bringing us together.
“People, who pray together, will not fight. Our workshops will have both management and spiritual topics.
“We make sure that our leaders will never fight again. Naturally, where people are coming together, challenges will always be there.
“But it is the work of leadership to channel the direction of the church peacefully, I want to assure our believers.
“Our church should be filled with unity and development; our challenges will be minimal.”
Rev Madawo said, this term they are going to maximise on the previous experience.
“We are going to maximise on that experience which is prevailing now where our leaders are coming together, having one purpose, one mind, one direction.
“The first task is uniting the leaders, bringing unity, bridging the gap so that we speak with one voice which to a certain extent towards last term, we had achieved.
“We are also looking at capacity building, our constitution which we amended and came up with has a lot of areas that are not understood by some of our leaders.
“Remember we are bringing in corporate governance, a system whereby there is transparency, equity, and constitutionalism in order for the leaders to implement fully the constitution.
“They need to understand it and be able to interpret it as it not as individual or group interest.”
The president emphasised the need to bring workshops in the church among the leaders.
“We need workshops for our leaders, we need our leaders to have understanding, incorporated with our fathers so that the constitution is understood and interpreted smoothly.
“We are going to lift up our spiritual heritage, AFM in Zimbabwe is not necessarily a denomination for those who know the history. It is not just an organisation in the way people interpret organisation but it is an apostolic movement.
“We want to lift that heritage, prayer, prophecy, deliverance, those things the holy ghost was doing in the book of Acts.
“God helping us, we are also looking at infrastructural development, if you look at what is happening at our international conference centre, Rufaro, some improvements have been done.”
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daniel chigunwe