The Binga outreach : a critical reflection on the reformed church in Zimbabwe's cross-cultural ministry

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dc.contributor.authorMunikwa, Christopheren_ZA
dc.contributor.authorHendriks, Hans Jurgensen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-08T08:17:33Z
dc.date.available2015-10-08T08:17:33Z
dc.date.issued2013-11
dc.descriptionPlease cite as follows:en_ZA
dc.descriptionMunikwa, C. & Hendriks, H.J. 2013. The Binga outreach: a critical reflection on the reformed church in Zimbabwe's cross-cultural ministry. Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 41(3): 290-306, doi:10.7832/41-3-40.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://missionalia.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/40en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis article describes the first cross-cultural outreach of the Reformed Church in Zambia (RCZ) to a non-Shona speaking group. This Church founded preaching posts and, eventually, a congregation among the Tonga people living in the Binga area on the southern side of the Zambezi River / Kariba Lake. These people, of a unique culture, were displaced from their land, causing great suffering, when the dam was built and the lake formed. They received very little compensation – if any. Other tribes looked down on the Tonga people. In the nineties, University students initiated an “evangelism outreach.” This article describes the events, relates something about the Tonga people, and deals with the RCZ’s discovery that they were defaulting to the missionary methods of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) that founded their Church more than a hundred years earlier. This realization led to the question how they should go about reaching out to different cultural groups of people.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://missionalia.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/40en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent17 pages
dc.identifier.citationMunikwa, C. & Hendriks, H.J. 2013. The Binga outreach : a critical reflection on the reformed church in Zimbabwe's cross-cultural ministry. Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 41(3): 290-306, doi:10.7832/41-3-40.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2312-878X (online)
dc.identifier.issn0256-9507 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.7832/41-3-40
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97557
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of South Africaen_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthors retains copyrighten_ZA
dc.subjectTonga (Zambezi people)en_ZA
dc.subjectBinga District (Zimbabwe)en_ZA
dc.subjectReformed Church in Zimbabween_ZA
dc.subjectMissions -- Zimbabween_ZA
dc.titleThe Binga outreach : a critical reflection on the reformed church in Zimbabwe's cross-cultural ministryen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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