Zambia Baptist Association

Zambia Baptist Association is an association of local affiliated churches across Zambia with the primary goals including church planting, leadership development and promotion of fellowship and addressing  social concerns in communities around us. Zambia Baptist Association is recognised as a public benefit organisation in Zambia.

This project seeks to raise funds to facilitate the implementation of the organization four key areas:

1. Leadership development– the organisation runs a college which has been providing education service to many people now involved in leadership roles in the country. The organisation has recognised the need to transform this college into a University to address the education gaps in our country. Land for this construction has already been acquired and architectural designs have been developed. The association mobilises funds every year to sponsor eligible students for vocational ministry among the member churches. Further the association seeks to mobilise funds for scholarships to deserving under-pviledged students. Additionally, the association also seeks to mobilise funds for the construction of the university and upgrading a secondary school facility.

2. Church Planting – The Association has gone through a process of growth over the years with 13 churches forming the organisation in 1973 to the current 210 churches around the country. The opportunity to plant new churches in different parts of the country still exists with many areas still unreached. The majority of the planted churches do not have their own church buildings and trained pastors which has shown to be a challenge in ministry growth. The Association is seeking to raise more funds to support local missionaries and church buildings.

3. Social Concerns – The Association runs a rural healthy facility catering for a population area of over 200,000 people. The need continues to grow every year and the association seeks to raise funds for the payment of staff, purchase of essential drugs and equipment, running costs and maintenance of the facility. The association also seeks to develop a 254 hectre farm to be partly used as a demonstration farm for the local peasant and small scale farmers and partly as an income generating facility to fund other social concerns from locally generated funds. The area in which the farm is located has no social amenities and the association seeks to additionally raise funds for the development of a primary school and and health centre.

4. Church coordination and peace building – The member churches are scattered across the 752,000 square kilometres of the country. Coordinating the work among the 210 churches demands covering thousands of kilometres every year. the association seeks to raise funds to facilitate purchase of vehicles for different ministries such as children ministry, youth ministry, women ministry, missions, social concerns department and education department.