| dc.description.abstract | Since its establishment in 1912, when Pastor James Moya was assigned to look
after a few Voice of Prophecy students who had decided to join the Seventh-day Adventist
Church, the Central Zululand district has been gradually growing and yet losing a great
number of its members due to lack of pastoral care. The very limited involvement of
members in ministry has been a constant concern of the church leadership.
The Central Zululand district exists to further the proclamation of the everlasting
Gospel (Revelation 14:6, 7):
1. To prepare God’s people for the Kingdom.
2. To equip the laity to witness, to share the three angels’ messages with their
neighbors, friends, relatives, colleagues, bosses, etc.
The main focus and mission of the district has been, and still is, to enlarge God’s
Kingdom in the hearts of people in the territory through a balanced and integrated role of
pastoral and lay ministry, proclaiming the three Angels’ messages.This paper is a strategic plan for empowering the laity for ministry. It is an integral
part of the mission of the Central Zululand district, which aims at assimilating, nurturing,
and assigning new members to ministries according to their spiritual gifts. Both the Old and
the New Testaments provide us with models of how the laity can be involved. And the
equipping and empowering of the laity to serve each is known to reduce apostasies while
facilitating natural church growth. | en_US |
