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dc.contributor.authorNamilonga, Makuni
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-22T12:25:21Z
dc.date.available2021-11-22T12:25:21Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttp://irepository.aua.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/205
dc.descriptionFull Text Thesisen_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis surveyed the evangelistic processes of the Seventh-day Adventist church among the natives of Chongwe in Zambia. Statistics and observations indicated that public and rally evangelizations were not very successful in Chongwe. This challenge was partly because of the perception of the people about Seventh-day Adventist Church, its beliefs and the church’s seemingly ignorance of the word view of the people. Thus, the purpose of this study was to determine the perceived hindrances to Adventist evangelization of Chalimbana, the evangelistic approaches Suitable to the Solis population of non-SDA develop, and implement and evaluate an effective method to evangelize the indigenous Soli people of Chongwe in Zambia. Towards this agenda the researcher used a descriptive method for the research process. Following an investigation of the problem through survey, group’s discussion, interviews and observations, the research designed a friendship evangelism programto build a bridge to drive the gospel message. The program was carried out with a team of five (5) members and it ran from November 5, 2020 to January 19, 2021 in Chalimbana Mission District (CMD) Chongwe. A number of relational activities were carried out so as to establish friendship for a favourable environment to evangelize. These included embarking on community service program, distribution of relief items, entrepreneurship seminars, education seminars, health seminars and screening program. These activities were carried out alongside home to home Bible studies and prayer. The study found that the most suitable method for evangelizing the population is through building bridges. This is what we call friendship evangelism. This was demonstrated by the change of perception of the people about the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the baptism of thirty-eight persons into the church. The study concluded that that people who are hard to reach can be reached through friendship by creating close relations. Thus study recommended the church should train members on the importance of relationship as an essential component of Christian mission and evangelism, be sensitive in the way they disseminate information either formally or informally, devise programs that will interest the locals to the church, have a consistent plan or system for helping new believers grow spiritually and invest in social amenities such as boreholes, education and health Centre’s which can both directly and indirectly help witnessing.en_US
dc.publisherAdventist University of Africa, Theological Seminaryen_US
dc.subjectEvangelismen_US
dc.subjectSeventh-Day Adventist Churchen_US
dc.subjectFriendship Evangelismen_US
dc.subjectEllen G. Whiteen_US
dc.subjectZambiaen_US
dc.titleDeveloping an effective strategy to evangelize the Soli people in Chalimbana District, Chongwe-Zambiaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US


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