Just over a year ago, Liberty Church sent out its first missionaries through our partner organization, Children’s Cup. Gethin and Bex Amoss are family, a part of our church that moved to Swaziland to support our flourishing community in Sauerstown, near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. They are training to be part of the team on the ground at Liberty Church Zimbabwe, working with the community pastors and the Celebration Church Network under Pastor Dixon Changara.
As projects to develop the campus are underway and as we send another team from New York this week on a missions trip, Gethin and Bex are already witnessing how the vision of Liberty Church to be a catalyst locally is impacting a community on the other side of the globe. Having met with Liberty Church Zimbabwe’s leadership team, Gethin and Bex expressed excitement for the period of development that the church is entering. “Liberty is starting to inspire the community. There are adult discipleship classes and a whole team of volunteers that make the Sunday services happen.”
Visiting the United States for a family wedding, Gethin and Bex came home to Liberty Church in New York in August to reconnect with friends and those who were supporting them financially and as prayer partners. “Seeing old friends and faces was wonderful, but the real encouragement was the fact that we didn’t actually know a lot of the faces, as there has been such growth within the communities. It was great to finally get to see the Brooklyn community too as that was still in the planning stages when we left.”
In preparation for Zimbabwe, Gethin and Bex’s season in Swaziland is giving them insight into the work of Children’s Cup and how they are transforming neighborhoods through CarePoints, which offer feeding programs and free preschool education to thousands of children, a traveling medical unit that visits all 26 CarePoints, a child sponsorship department, skills training classes for high school students, and the Global Leadership Academy that trains dozens of local Africans each year.
Bex explains, “Right now, we’re in our initial stages, acclimatizing and just soaking everything in…The more we learn here, the more we can take with us to Zim.
As their dreams for Zimbabwe begin to take shape, the Amosses share their goals:
- To be the hands and feet of Jesus to the people we meet
- To uphold and develop the feeding programs and other projects of Children’s Cup
- To take the knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned in Swaziland to Sauerstown and Liberty Church Zimbabwe and help develop the CarePoint and surrounding community there
- To help foster positive attitudes and change towards people with disabilities and provide training where we can
- To train national staff so our knowledge, skills, and projects can provide a sustainable change.
They have already delivered their first training on disabilities to students at the Global Leadership Academy.
Both Gethin and Bex treasure the moments that make Africa irresistible—the friendly and uplifting people, the irrepressible smiles of the children, and the incredible beauty of the environment and climate. And through the changes and challenges, they cling to the promise in Joshua 1:9, “Be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
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