Chalala is a large middle to upper class residential area in the South Eastern part of the captial city of our country, Zambia. Middle aged to older couples with their families have bought land and built houses there while most young professionals settle there finding homes to rent. Most of the houses are gated and it is difficult to get into contact with residents who are busy with their own lives. Our current strategy is to come up with events that would interest them such as couples and women’s meetings dealing with pertinent issues and children’s conferences and men’s breakfasts. We hope that as the community comes out to these events we can get their contacts and forge relationships with them to create an occasion to share the gospel.

April 2025 Update

CHIOMBOLO BAPTIST CHURCH LAUNCHED!

It is a great joy to share about the launch of a new church plant called Chiombolo (Redeemed) Baptist Church in Misisi Compound which is one of the poorest communities in the city, adjacent to the area where our church is located. Since August last year, we began a children’s bible club in the area where about 200 children attended consistently leading us to consider a church plant there. We partnered with a sister church, Faith Baptist Church on the other side of town. Their deacon named, Naphtali, who was also undergoing a pastoral internship agreed to run the bible club and is now running the church plant. In March and April, our members undertook three outreach efforts there, sharing the gospel and inviting people to the launch of the new church. We also had an Easter bonfire leading up to the launch. 150 people came out to the launch and the little classroom at the school where the church meets could not accomodate everyone and so they met outside! The attendance has continued to be very good.

Membership Classes

Since we had never had membership classes at Hillview, the elders decided to hold classes for all the members, new and old, and an invitation was extended to others who were considering membership. We met twice in February and twice in March on Saturday mornings. We hope to hold these classes every year at the start of the year for all members to set the year up and ensure that we are all pushing together in the same direction.

Annual Conference and Baptism

Our annual conference took place on the second weekend of the month of April. The theme was Spiritual Warfare and Mr. Nsenduluka preached. It was particularly special because we also baptized eight individuals on the final day of the conference which was a Sunday. One of them professed faith through our Campus Outreach efforts in reaching students at the local medical university with the gospel of Jesus. It was fulfilling to see fruit from outreach efforts!

Thank you for praying with us!

• We are grateful to God for the slight improvement in attendance seen from members for our annual conference. Generally preaching and teaching sessions outside of the Sunday service are poorly attended. This remains a source of deep concern. Please pray for revival in this area from our people.
• The two church plants that have already been running, Canaan and Calvary Baptist Church are doing remarkably well! Their attendance has grown into the 20s and 30s and the men who are preaching there are no longer wondering if anyone will show up. Thank God for this and pray for souls to be saved.
• All three church plants which are reaching poor areas in the city lack men. It appears men are generally not interested in attending church but we need men who will be saved and raised to become leaders. Please pray!
• Our building project has been put on hold. We had hoped to acquire more land in our current location but that has not happened. Please pray for wisdom and God’s leading as we are eager to build ourselves a permanent place of worship. We continue to meet in a tent but our current property is limited in space.