CB CHURCHES IN FUNDING GALORE

By SANFROSSA MANYINDA OVER 50 institutions on the Copperbelt have already received relief funding from Government, the Kitwe City Christian Ministers Fellowship has confirmed. The institutions are as church mother bodies, church network, pastors’ fellowships and a number of cooperatives received the funding a week ago. Kitwe Fellowship Chairperson, Raddy Lewila, added that two out of 300 cooperatives that applied in Kitwe had received their share. The cooperatives are getting between K50,000 and K100,000 depending in the type of projects they presented. Mr Lewila was speaking in Kitwe yesterday. “We would like to thank President Edgar Lungu and the Government for the initiative to mitigate the Covid-19 impact on the clergy and the churches throughout Zambia by assisting them with finding of cooperatives that were formed. “It is on record that the President fulfils whatever he says and we want to stand with him and assure the cooperatives which have not yet accessed the funding, that they will soon receive,” he said. Bishop Lewila stated that there was no need to change Government until the three strategic pillars were fully established. He maintained that the church and clergy on the Copperbelt had no intention to depart from the three strategic pillars until they were well established and consolidated. The three pillars are the national-day-of-prayer, repentance, fasting and reconciliation, the construction or the National House of Prayer and the creation of the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs. He said the three pillars had greatly contributed to effectiveness of the spiritual climate in the nation.