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Malawi, Religion

Bishop Andrew Dube is now Malawi Assemblies of God’ President

Maravi Post Reporter

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Bishop Andrew Dube of Dream Centre in Blantyre is now the new president of the Malawi Assemblies of God church.

The Bishop Dube was elected at the church’s general assembly held at the church’s headquarters in Lilongwe on Friday, August 21, 2020.

The elective general assembly also elected new faces in other positions but others maintained their positions.

These elections follows the church’s Constitution which stipulates 4 years as the term of office for its leaders.

Bishop Andrew Dube who was the deputy president of the church takes over the highest position from Rev. Dr. Edward Chitsonga who is the outgoing president who succeeded Rev. Dr. Lazarus Chakwera in 2013.

This is a position of interest because the current president of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera, also held the same position before he resigned to join mainstream politics in 2013.

Chakwera is said to the only pastor to have held that position for many years.

Since its inception in 1947 by a contingent of missionaries who build their first church in Chimbewa village in Ntcheu district, assemblies of God church has grown tremendously. It has a huge following in Malawi and beyond the African borders.

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Malawian church to stop referring to God’s ass

Maravi Post Reporter

After years of inspiring online ridicule with their clueless signs, Malawi Assemblies of God church has issued a memo calling for all churches to stop using the phrase ‘Ass of God’ on their signposts.

In an unverified internal memo released on 19 September and directed at the Church’s leaders, the church seemed to have been clueless about the implications of what “Ass of God entails.”

‘No more Ass talk’ – Assemblies Of God

The President of the church, who signed the memo, advises that ‘Ass’ means a booty, a donkey, a fool or the rectum itself and thus was not a word the church needed to be associated with.

“Kindly inform all Pastors under your jurisdiction ro refrain from using the abbreviation on their signposts. Let us write the name of our church in full: Malawi Assemblies of God,” says the memo.

There you have it, only in 2017 did the church realise that it was being an ass by thinking Ass was the shorthand for Assembly.

Lucky they never adopted ‘Asses’ as an identity for the church’s faithfuls.

Religion

First Lady honours Malawi Assemblies of God Church as State’s progressive partner

Patience Mandowa

Malawi First Lady
Assemblies  of God is one of the most influential Institutions

 

First Lady Dr. Gertrude Mutharika on Friday said the Malawi Assemblies of God Church is one of the most influential institutions in Malawi, which partners with Government in developing this country.

This year, the church celebrates its 70th year of existence in Malawi – during which the Church provided spiritual and moral support, as well as social ingenuity to Malawians and the Government.

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