For three decades, skilled servant leaders from the Baltimore-Washington Conference have traveled to Zimbabwe to build relationships, support schools, and serve alongside our United Methodist siblings in ministry. This summer, 15 participants, including Chief Administrative Officer Erica...
By Chenayi Kumuterera and Priscilla Muzerengwa Feb. 24, 2021 | MUTARE, Zimbabwe (UM News) Watch a video about the new homes Vivian Chigweshe sheds tears as she expresses appreciation for her new home in Bikita, Zimbabwe, sponsored by the Baltimore-Washington Conference of The...
In 2007, the Baltimore-Washington Conference joined in a partnership with United Methodists in the Zimbabwe Episcopal Area. One of the cornerstones of the partnership is a Pastors’ School, held every two years at Africa University. BWC leaders provided most of the support in...
Hanwa Mission School in Zimbabwe, a project of the Community UMC of Crofton, is now officially a United Methodist school.
When the Rev. Gladman Kapfumvuti was a young pastor in Marange, Zimbabwe, he lived humbly, traveling a circuit, preaching the Word of God. “Little did I know there were diamonds, literally diamonds, in the dirt beneath my feet,” he said. “I was walking on diamonds.”
I have a bad cold. There’s an illness is sweeping through the BWC delegation, so I’ve taken to bed in the Ubuntu Retreat Center. Ubuntu, I’m told, means “the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity.” It’s a good place to rest one’s head.
“Africa University is your school,” said Vice Chancellor Munashe Furusa, the president of the United Methodist pan-African school, as he addressed members of the Baltimore-Washington Conference.
