Join Us For A Braai

Discipling compound pastors is a ministry of Action Zambia Ministries (AZM). Led by teammates Brent Roberts and Luke Whitfield, Discipleship 2:7 (taken from Colossians 2:7) is a one-year program that meets each week on Thursdays.

AZM recently welcomed its new group of eleven pastors with a braai (pronounced "bri" with a long "i" sound), or barbecue. Also attending were Tracy, Steve Allen, and consultant, Wozifera
Ngoma.

After the meal Tracy introduced AZM's other ministries, namely NextGen and the C.R.O.S.S. ministry. The pastors shared where they live, mostly in the Matero, Ng'ombe, and Garden compounds.
Some shared their testimonies~one in particular shared how he used to be a Muslim and what his life in Islam was like.

The men also shared some of Zambia's interesting and bizarre cultural practices. Having children in this culture is very important and childless marriages are deemed abnormal. In fact, if newly-
weds aren't pregnant in the first three months the neighbors begin to talk. If a man fails to produce a legacy it is a huge disgrace. In days past when a man died without leaving offspring, a piece of charcoal was placed in one of his body's orifices before burial. And, it wasn't the mouth! Makes one wince, doesn't it? Why charcoal, I have no idea, but it symbolized that he had left no seed.