Crossroads Community Church: The beginning stages

THE PLANT…..

Crossroads Community Church is based in Kezi, Zimbabwe. We are a church plant out of River of Life church based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. We are a new church plant and about an hours drive South of Bulawayo – known as The City of Kings.

Stephen Manhanga: Leader of Crossroads Community Church

The leader of the church plant is Stephen Manhanga, who originally was an elder at River of Life Church Eastlea based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Stephen and I (Molly Manhanga) moved from Harare in August 2007 to plant the church. We started by building relationship with the people in the community, learning the local language, introducing ourselves to the local community leaders as well as working at Ebenezer Agricultural Training Centre.

The name Crossroads is prophetic in that Stephen felt that when the community come face to face with Jesus at the cross, they’ll never be the same. They need to make a choice. The site for the building is at a crossroads that leads in 3 different directions: 2 to business centres – Natisa and Silozwe and the other road leads to Ebenezer.

A service at Crossroads Community Church

Although we are 4 months old, we have started Cell groups at Ebenezer Agricultural Training Centre as well as at Shalom Camp site. These Cell groups are overseen by Xolani Ndlovu, one of the leaders at Crossroads, we are training our praise and worship leaders, we have a children’s ministry called Kidz Alive led by Molly Manhanga. She has 4 volunteers working with her. We also have a Youth group led by Stephen Manhanga. Our attendance on a Sunday has reached to 58 adults and 87 children. Praise God! We don’t have a building yet so we meet at Ebenezer. We are hoping to have our building up within the next year or two.

We had an awsome day of clearing the land at the Crossroads stand. Please be encouraged to read the article “All Hands on Deck” to find out more…..

This is exciting stuff as we impact the Kezi community for Christ.

Some children at Crossroads enjoying a time of games.

Written by Molly Manhanga