One on one with Xolani Ndlovu

Catching up on the Faithful Stewards Programme with Xolani Ndlovu

It was great seeing Xolani Ndlovu at Crossroads yesterday when he came to train the Faithful Stewards Farmers. Xolani, better known as X attends New Creation Church. The main thrust of his training held at Crossroads was to discuss the preparedness of the farmers for the coming season, seed, land preparation, fireguards, farming calendar and so on. This is what he said….

M.M: How do you feel the Faithful Stewards Programme will benefit the churches – Thembalezizwe led by Tapiwa Chizana and Crossroads Community Church led by Stephen Manhanga?
X.N: I feel FSP will teach our churches how to be faithful stewards. People will come to realise that they actually are stewarding a lot and that realisation will spill into people’s hearts. Husbands will start to love their wives, children will hear Godly things, wives will start to submit to their husbands and so on and this will be all through the farming initiative. God is at work.

M.M: What are the pro’s of coming into the community?
X.N: Well it’s always good to see a people eager to learn, a people who relate with each other based not on the latest fashion trends or some other superficial connection but based on real fellowship. This is a people with land to use. There is always a hope that people can feed themselves and I love to perpetuate that hope. We need to relearn how to feed ourselves for the future of our children.

M.M: Great. Any con’s you’d like to share?
X.N: Whenever someone comes from town, people are still expecting to be given something. They start to share about the things they don’t have like seed, food etc. Although these are genuine concerns, it all too often leads people to gorget what they actually DO have.

M.M: What are your hopes for the 2010 – 2011 season?
X.N: It is my hope that we will experience bumper harvests this season. I dream of the day when donor organisations come into communities and the church say “Thank you very much but we are okay.” I hope to ground the farmers on the 4 principles of on time, to standard, without wastage and with joy then hopefully these same farmers will train others in the coming season.

M.M: Thanks so much X. I hope you have a great time with the farmers.

By Molly Manhanga