Everyone is invited to hear the Rev. Dr Solmon Zwana, National Chaplain to Zimbabwean Methodists in Australia and Oceania, speak at meetings at St Paul’s Uniting Church on 18-20 November and on Sunday 20 November when he will preach at Armitage, St Paul’s and Calen Uniting Churches.
A former presiding bishop, Methodist Church in Zimbabwe, theologian, church leader, and advocate for good governance and honesty in public life, Dr Zwana is conducting a national tour of Australian capital cities and regional centres. He will raise awareness among Zimbabwean migrants of the relationship between the Methodist Church, founded in England in the 1730s, and its continuation in the Uniting Church in Australia, a union of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches in 1977.
Dr Zwana has served as chairman of the Zimbabwe Elections Support Network, a local coalition of civil society organisations formed to observe elections. ‘You cannot say you are preaching the gospel if social justice is not part of your work,’ said Dr Zwana, who has highlighted harassment of voters by the government. Although he has received threatening phone calls, government leaders, often educated in Christian schools, respect the role of the church in the community, appreciate the large number of Christians as a proportion of the population, and heed the constructive criticism provided by mainline Protestant Churches. International partnerships, such as the relationship between the Methodist Development and Relief Agency and the Uniting Church in Australia through Uniting World, also encourage the Methodist Church to speak up for justice.
REV. DR JULIA PITMAN, MINISTER, ST PAUL’S UNITING CHURCH
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