Pillar of Truth Church

Pillar of Truth Church is situated in the heart of Garden Compound, a few miles to the Northeast of downtown Lusaka. Like all compounds in rural Lusaka, Garden is home to thousands and thousands of people who try to survive off of less than $1 per day. Many people flood to Lusaka from the distant villiages of Zambia hoping to find good jobs and wealth for their families, only to discover that there is not enough infrastructure in the city to support the constant influx of people. Many find themselves in the compounds, disillusioned and disconnected, struggling merely to have one or two meals every few days.

Peter and his wife planted Pillar of Truth in their own home, where the church still meets. The addition to their home, which Peter build himself, has served well as both a school and a church for the past two years, but is now too small for the important functions that it serves. Recently Peter and his church prayed for God to provide a new venue for them, and over a long period of time the Lord seemed to open and then close doors for them. Two different times they found good land and wanted to purchase, but each time the deals fell through. Finally, the Lord privided them with a very spacious plot, where they hope to build separate buildings for their church and for a new community school in the near future. Here is a video of Pastor Zulu introducing his church, and describing the plot of land:

Pillar of Truth Church, as a body of believers, is passionate about church planting. When they were only two years old as a congregation, they felt that they needed to plant a church in the Eastern Province of Zambia, which they did. The church that they planted has since planted its own church, so that there are now three churches associated with pastor Zulu's ministry! But Pillar of Truth is not satisfied merely to win the lost to Christ -- they also use their time on Sundays to train up their members to read and to understand the scriptures, that they might grow steadily in their faith. The teachers who work in Peter's community school even use their Sundays to exercise their gifts, as you can hear about here:

Please continue to pray for Pillar of Truth Church and for her daughter churches, that they would continue to be bold in their communities and faithful to the Lord. Thank you again for all that you are doing for Pastor Zulu and his family! As always, if you are receiving this post via email you may need to click here to watch the videos.