| dc.description.abstract | This 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 |
