missions to Zambia and to the Congo, 42 years of working behind enemy lines and focusing on restricted access areas. Africa is a great continent. We've got tremendous challenges coming up our way. According to Operation World, the number of Christians in Africa is set to double. In the next 25 years, the number of Christians in Africa is going to double from 600 million, 680 million now, to 1.2 billion by 2050. That will be more Christians than you'll have in the entire Northern Hemisphere. More than all the Christians in North America, Europe, and Asia combined. We might even be more than all the Christians in all other continents combined, but certainly Africa is going to have the largest number of Christians in the world. We might even become predominant. So when I was converted in 1977, that was the year that the Global South overtook the Global North. Christians had been predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere. In 1977, there was parity, the same number of Christians in the Southern Hemisphere as the Northern Hemisphere. That's now moved to 80% of the Christians in the world are now in the Southern Hemisphere, South America and Africa particularly. But that's going to dramatically increase the imbalance. the world's going to be overwhelmingly Christian in the southern hemisphere. So the global south is tipping the scales. And right now we are heading to a situation where there's going to be so many Christians in Africa, we won't be able to find enough Bibles or Bible teaching for them. That's the big challenge. Africa needs more Bibles and more Bible teaching. Right now we're told there's only 150 million Bibles and New Testaments in Africa. And that means 500 million people who call themselves Christians in Africa do not have a Bible, or even a New Testament today. So the need for Bibles and Bible teaching is huge. Well, this last month, one of our missionaries, Jehan, has traveled to the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo. And when you see the word Democratic in the name, you know it's not. and Democratic Republic of Congo. The poor guys have suffered a lot there. Johan and his wife, Marita, have been focused on reaching the Congo for many, many years. He has a naval background. In fact, Johan Mankies was on the bridge of the President Truger when it sank, the biggest naval disaster in South African naval history. They were doing complex, dangerous, anti-submarine manoeuvres at night. And President Kruger, the pride of the fleet, the flag-bearing ship of the South Caribbean Navy, sank. And he went down with the ship and lived to tell the tale, which is quite something. Well, he's traveled to the Congo many a time, and the Congo has always been understood as one of the toughest mission fields on Earth. In fact, the Congo inspired the book written in 1899, The Heart of Darkness, and that was also the inspiration for the American Apocalypse Now movie. The Heart of Darkness has been understood to be the Congo River. When Henry Morton Stanley went down the Congo River, he was involved in more than 50 major battles against cannibals and others who wanted to skin and eat him alive. So Henry Morton Stanley's book, Through the Dark Continent, is quite an epic. I've gone through it, and we've got a copy, a first edition, in our display cabinets downstairs. But the Congo has been, just to give you an idea, Congo is very much central. It's the largest country in Africa right now. The largest country used to be the Sudan, but of course, we had a part in seeing that Sudan was cut down to size, with South Sudan taking independence. These are some pictures that Michelis took in the Congo back in the 1930s and 40s. You can see some of the hairstyles and face masks and witchcraft styles that used to be quite common. This is 1909, this particular picture. Some of the tribal dances, clothes, outfits, interesting kinds of body modification, which is now more common in Western capitals than in Africa now, as people have been turned to Christ. This looks now more like somebody in Los Angeles. Yes. And of course, the voodoo masks, strange hairstyles, all kinds of interesting styles, scarification. This is now not practiced in Africa much. This is historic. But it's practiced a lot in the West and in Canada and New Zealand and Australia now. And the Mishris came to the Congo in their droves, from Siti, Stud, so many others. And Congo moved from a situation where in 1900, only 1.6% of the Congo would call themselves Christians. Now more than 90% of the people of Congo call themselves Christians. 1964, there was a hideous uprising called the Simbas. I don't know if they're still Africa's bloodiest rebels, but they were at the time. And the Simbas killed at least 280 missionaries, and that included Protestants and Catholic missionaries. In fact, in Stanleyville, where these characters took over in Stanleyville, they were supported by Red China, the Simbas set up an altar with a huge picture of Patrice Lumumba, who was the first communist dictator of the Congo. And the Soviets later bought a Patrice Lumumba University to train terrorists in Moscow. So Petruchio Mambo was their god. They set up an altar with a big picture of him framed behind it, and on it they sacrificed Mishris. They brought out the Mishris and laid them on the altar and plucked out the beating hearts and so on. And Stanleyville was a scene of terrible slaughter. I remember as a brand new Christian reading a book out of the mouth of a lion. Now Simba means lion in Swahili. And the Simba terrorists were murdering missionaries. There were hundreds of them lined up, being taken up one by one, being sacrificed in front of the Prashish Lumumba memorial or altar. And the Belgians who were responsible for the Congo, their paratroopers were late. The French Foreign Legion They were totally late, they missed the whole thing. But South African mercenaries under Colonel Michael, the Wild Geese, or the Five Commander, as they prefer to be called, they came in and they rescued hundreds of these mercenaries. They got to Stanleyville in time to rescue hundreds of mercenaries from being slaughtered, although many had been murdered already before they got there. But total failure for the Belgian military, total failure for the French Foreign Legion, a victory for the much maligned South African and Rhodesian mercenaries under my corps, 5th Command of the Wild Geese. They made a film called The Wild Geese later, inspired by those things. But of course, over the years, the weapons and uniforms have changed. But the Congress has gone through such a lot of harsh civil war. Just from 1996 to 2004, in eight years, four million people died in the Congo in what was called the Great Lakes War. Some people called it Africa's first continental war. There were 12 national armies involved in the Congo, Northern Congo, in what they called the Great Lakes War. Central African Republic, the Sudan Armed Forces, Zimbabwe Army was there, the Angolans, even the Namibian Army was in there, Tanzanians, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda. So many different countries had their armies in the Congo. Millions of Congolese getting killed. I don't think any newspaper in the world dealt with this war. And there's a good reason for it. They don't have nice five-star hotels in the North east of the Congo. So no war corresponds to their covering this, because they didn't have the kind of nightlife on when you've got no power and things like that. Most of the people in the Congo have no access to electricity or plumbing. And the situation is so bad, in the 1970s, the government under Mobutu Sese Seku nationalized all the hospitals and the schools. And so the situation is absolute catastrophe. The situation for the people is you've got 450 ethnolinguistic groups in the Congo. That's 450 different languages and tribes. 60 million people living in the most mineral-rich country probably on the continent, if not one of the most in the world. Masses of diamonds and gold and platinum and uranium and cobalt and every kind of natural riches you could ever ask for. And the Congo River is so powerful, could provide hydroelectric power for the entire continent of Africa, just from the Congo River, if you used the hydroelectric power, such as Rhodesia, Pioneer, Karibwan, the Zambezi. Now, in this Congo River basin, you can see the huge amounts of area that it covers. The Congo River is one of the longest rivers in the world. The Congo River has 1,735 kilometers just between Kisangani and Kinshasa, Kinshasa being the capital over here. Going up to Kisangani, which is the highest point you can go, that is, Kisangani used to be Stanleyville. And Henry Morton Stanley founded Kisangani in 1883, and they called it Stanley Falls Station at that stage. It was just by the point where you're going to have waterfalls, and therefore no longer navigable, such as the upper station of the Congo River. Now, there's 14,000 kilometers of riverbanks to reach if you count the tributaries. There's huge amounts of people there, millions of people who can only be reached by river. There's no roads. There's no airports. There's no way to reach something like 18 million people in that area. Now, we've been there and ministered in different parts of the Congo over the years, including Bill Batman and I, ministering on their radio and TV stations, delivering the kind of technology you see in our cabinets here. These are the gospel messengers, hand-cranked tape recorders that come along with these different flip charts to equip an evangelist. very effective. They can also be operated with solar panels. And we had our largest Biblical Worldly Seminar ever in Elizabethville, what today is called Lubumbashi. And we had thousands of people attend our three-day Biblical World Youth Summit, including generals, judges, local government, and so on. And Bishop Lumba Lumba organized this opportunity for us. And for it, we produced the Biblical Principles for Africa, translated into French. Bishop Lumba Lumba, our host, and lots of great resources for them. They launched Rededco, which is the Society for the Reformation of the Congo, and just some of the pictures back from the launch of this Christian Action Reformation Movement in the Congo back in 2006. and good responses, a tremendous potential. Now, our co-worker, Johan, has just travelled 5,274 kilometres. It took him 19 days to arrive in Kisangani. I was in Lusaka when I got the word through that he had arrived in Kisangani after an incredible amount of obstacles, getting through roadblocks where the officials don't even pretend to be having any legal claims. You don't need to see a passport, just give us money. Just money. And they suck the country dry. The country has been looted into paralysis. And this is Kisangani. You can see the headwaters of this waterfall here makes it impossible for further navigation upriver. But Kisangani, the oldest Stanleyville, where once five commander rescued hundreds of missionaries who were about to literally be sacrificed on the altar. The Congo River is a long, massive river. Sometimes it stretches, widens, I should say, to 16 kilometers wide in the rainy season. The only way you can reach most of the area in the Congo is by boat. And these communities are totally isolated except from the riverside. So this is why our naval co-worker, Johan Mankies, has got the vision of the Congo River Mission, that we need boats to go and take the gospel village by village. Huge amounts of Bible distribution to be done. Fortunately, the gospel is available in many of the languages. Now here he is just reading parts of man booklets, which are excellent from all nations gospel publishers. This is your local taxi. I mean, just imagine this is how you've got to travel. And occasionally, you get a ferry. And there's somebody's truck on top of this ferry, and it's putting along with some diesel engine. And you've got interesting fishermen's goals of how to fish on some of the rapids, some of these unnavigable areas where there's too much rocks, and all kinds of strange vessels you'll see on the Congo River. Of course, the river is used for everything. Fishing, washing, laundry, you name it. And these are the people who need to be reached through the gospel. As Johan often says, it's only good news if it reaches you in time. And so the gospel has got to reach the people in time for them to respond. Some of the churches are quite humble affairs. Some of the schools, though, have desks and are fairly well-equipped. You'll recognize the Czech publications being distributed, and world-nationally-pressed gospel booklets always make a good impact. There's a great hunger for literature. We need to get Bibles and gospel literature to people in the field in these areas, and so continue to pray for the Congo, and particularly to Yohannes. He's in the field, seeking to reach these people who are so neglected. I mean, how many people want to go to the Congo mission? And Congo is in great need, great potential. If the people just had freedom, they would have everything else. But they've not been free. For centuries, they were looted by Islamic slave traders. And then when the Belgians came in, The Arab slave trades were replaced with corporate executive greed. Some corporations really abused the people. Even though they were technically free and slavery was outlawed under the Belgians, in practice there were some corporations that were very corrupt. So they need biblical principles, just like we do. The John and Romans in French being disrearded. French Bibles, Congo for Christ, Broad and Narrow Way in French. Also the people speak a version of Swahili in the eastern highlands of Congo as well. The Jesus film is a great tool. We've done lots of film evangelism in the outdoors. Even in Everia, I think when Frank was on the team there, they took out in the central intersection of Everia at night and conducted film evangelism right there. which can have great effects, even conducted baptisms in the local lake. It's Lake Tanganyika right there. So that's just a few things to pray for on the Congo. That's Johan's report. Let me go on to our Zambian mission. Notice the fish eagle and the Zambian flag. So we've been working 42 years in the field in restricted access areas. Zambia is very well positioned. It's in Central Africa. Zambia was once part of the Central African Federation. There was Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, and Niceland. Niceland's now Malawi, Northern Rhodesia's now Zambia, Southern Rhodesia's now Zimbabwe. But that was a powerful, stable, economic powerhouse. And the British worked their best to destroy the Central African Federation. And Kenneth Gunda also tried to destroy the Federation. And that's very sad, because Zambia then was destabilized. Now, they've got a great national bird. The fish eagle is the ultimate in efficiency. I've woken up sleeping in a sleeping bag on the banks of the Zambezi River to the cry of a fish eagle. You saw a fish eagle swooping down, plucking a fish just below the surface, another flap of the wings up onto a tree, having breakfast. Jesus said, follow me, I will make you fishers of men. And that's what we are called to do, and that's what Zambia is called to do. Zambia is definitely centrally located. When you look at Victoria Falls, you can only be inspired by this mighty demonstration of God's creation. There was a point when David Livingstone found, named, mapped, measured the Victoria Falls. He said, angels at creation must have gazed in flight at such magnificent sights, at the most beautiful sights he ever saw in his life, at the falls. And when you look at that, you think of the living waters, Jesus says, will flow out from the innermost being, a mighty, unstoppable river like the Zambezi. We need to be a fountain of living waters flowing to nations around that are suffering. Now, in the western part of Zambia, they've got Lausie land, or Barutzi land, which is under military rule. It's effectively in a state of emergency because the Barutzi, or the Lausie, requested Britain to give them a protection to make them a protectorate because there was a lot of slavery around and Portugal was the last country in Europe that still engaged in slavery. And Portugal was of course neighboring them with Angola. So the Baroetze king asked the British to please put them under their protection. Well more accurately asked the British South Africa company, which is Cecil Rhodes' company, to put them under protection. And You can see in the museum, there's the law of 1906 banning slavery in Rottiland, which came as they came under British protection, or British South Africa police protection, I should say. Now, the king of the Lusies made a contract. We put ourselves under Britain for protection, but if Britain is ever to leave Zambia, they must give us back our independence. We do not want to remain part of this Northern Rhodesia or Zambia, as it later became called. Well, the British violated that rule because when they left, they left him under the Zambians. And Kenneth Kondo violated all his promises to recognize the independence as well. And he emphasized one Zambia, one nation, one party, one vote, one choice, you know, all that sort of thing. So no division. But this is just the Lusie's annual tradition of celebrating on, I don't know if this is the royal yacht, the royal raft, the royal canoe, but you can see the elephants are also on their symbols. Well, Zambia received independence in 1964, and it was not the success story that it should have been, as you can see from this monument, with the shacks immediately to the right and so on. 1964, northern Rhodesia was the powerhouse. Southern Rhodesia was the poor southern cousin. Northern Rhodesia was so rich, the British left two billion pounds in the Reserve Bank in Lusaka. One British pound equaled one Zambian crotchet. I spoke to a man in Zambia who said, as independence 1964, he bought a car for 164 crotchet. He bought a car. And when I was there, one bottle of Coke, not that I drink Coke, but one bottle of Coke cost 10,000 crotchet. So obviously the currency went down, down, downhill. From independence having two billion pounds in the bank, you would have thought Zambia would have been a mega success story. But no, Kenneth Gonda did everything he could to destroy the economic powerhouse of Central African Federation. He wanted to destroy the Federation, and he did. Northern Rhodesia had been so effective, partnered with Southern Rhodesia and with Macedonia, and now he turned into a one-party dictatorship. And you can see how the one culture And the one pound deteriorated down to hundreds of crotchet to one British pound and more and more devalued. So Zambian independence, they're approaching the 60th anniversary of independence of Zambia. 24th of October 1964 they got their independence. This month Zambia will celebrate 60 years. Now, you wonder what this is. I apologise for the quality of the picture, but I took this picture through a glass casing in the museum. But you can see the massive throne here. It's like an imperial throne. That's the throne for His Excellency, the President, Kenneth Gwenda. So this is in Parliament, Parliamentary desk and all this. And so he, not having the Speaker of the House in the centre, but had the President's throne central with these ivory tusks on each side. There was only one party allowed, that's United National Independence Party, UNIP. And if you had this green card, you had this membership card, that was the opening to all sorts of things. So you've got one party, one choice, one candidate. That was it. And that's what they called democracy in Zambia for many years. Corinda was dictator for 26 years in Zambia. And you had a choice. You could vote for him, or you could not vote. I mean, that's it. There was one box, one option. And people were getting sick and tired of the government of Zambia after a while. By the way, When there was a protest against Anglo-American, the Zambian police just came to the streets and shot them. Hard bullets. Forget about rubber bullets or tear gas. So the workers got no chance to negotiate with Anglo-American. Anglo-American owned UNEP, and UNEP owned Zambia, and that was it. And there was no negotiations with the government or the Anglo-American about the prices you get paid for working at copper mines and so on. And so tremendous amounts of suffering of the people there. These are all what I see in the museum today. For 27 years UNEP and KK have failed, KK being Kenneth Gonder. No job, no money, no food for family. And it's funny how all those great factories and industries built up over the years in Northern Malaysia just turned to scrap iron and rust in a matter of months. The government nationalized everything, right down to hospitals and schools. And before you knew it, the powerhouse of Africa, Northern Malaysia, turned out into being a rust bucket. Zambia became one of the poorest countries in the world. It not only was one of the poorest countries in the world, the most debt of any country in the world, percentage of its population. Under Kenneth Gunder, it went down to about $110 per person per year GDP. Absolutely disgraceful and shocking to see how the great railways was destroyed, the phenomenal factories were destroyed. This is just what nationalization does. Nationalization is institutionalized envy. It is government theft. Exactly what the Bible says, do not steal, do not covet your neighbor's goods. That's what they violated. Your socialism is institutionalized envy and legalized theft. And witchcraft played a part, too. Kenneth Kondo was himself a Satanist. And I met with cabinet ministers, ambassadors, top leaders in a meeting in Osaka shortly after 1991. And this one man who is Zambia's ambassador to the United Nations, he said, do you know Kenneth Kondo used to worship Satan, and Satan would appear physically at state house? And I must have looked sceptical. And he says, I know you don't believe me. You whites don't believe us. But it's true. And all the people in the room, all cabinet levels, judges, and so on, they're all nodding and saying, yes, Satan would physically appear to Kenneth Condon. And Robert Mugabe would be there, Agostino Neto, Samora Michelle. All the dictators, they gathered together. And they worshipped Satan by name. And he physically appeared to them. Now, I was skeptical. I just said at that point, well, Michael Cassidy wrote in his book that Kenneth Kondor was a Christian gentleman. And they all laughed, the whole room. And they said, you have a problem. Your ministers can't tell the difference between a Christian gentleman and a Satanist. Well, when Frederick Toluba took power in Zambia, he called the ministers of Lusaka to come to State House to exorcise the demons and to take out all the idols and all the trappings, witchcraft that was in State House, so that he could work from there. Here I met a man who was a cabinet minister under Kenneth Govinda, one of the veteran struggle heroes of Zambia, and he testified to me that under Kenneth Govinda, They didn't repair any roads, they didn't build any schools, literally let the country run to reckoning, just looted the treasury. The two billion pounds in gold in the treasury just disappeared and the country was wrecked under Keir Starmer. My first exposure to Zambia was Lusaka Central Prison. I was in cell 11, about there, the presidential detainee cell, which, despite its grandiose name, was not that nice. And the only entrance was under the machine gun tower here. This shed was the cooking shed. Here was the death row, where they actually did hangings and so on. The British built Lusaka Central Prison for 80 prisoners. And for eight months, they detained Kenneth Gunder in this prison. Of course, when the evil British ran it, there was plumbing, electricity, people had access to a library. Kenneth Gunder had a cell to himself. And interestingly, Kenneth Gunder said he could not agree with his parents Calvinist religion, because his parents believed in the depravity of man. He says, I believe in the goodness of man. I'm not a Christian, I'm a humanist. And Kent Glynda made humanism the official religion, the national ideology of Zambia. And there's big posters, billboards about humanism. Well, interesting, the British gave him a cell of his own with a bed, with sheets of pillows, with couch, gramophone, access to library, desk, and chair, and three cooked meals bought into a cell a day. When we were there, there were 1,200 people in the prison. No plumbing, no electricity, no beds, no sheets, no pillows. In fact, no running water. Can you imagine? No sanitation for a prison of 1,200, built for 80. But remember, Kingsborough believes in the goodness of man. Amazing how the people who believe in the goodness of man can do such evil things. Most of the people in that prison were remand prisoners, meaning they hadn't had their day in court. Remand prisoners didn't have uniforms they wore. what was left of their tattered civilian clothes. And some people had been there six, seven, eight years, not had their day in court yet. The Esconda believed in the goodness of man. And this is what it looked like from the outside. And that's after it got released. Sure, it didn't look this good when I went there. Well, in October 1987, I and three other frontline missionaries were locked up as prisoners in Lusaka Central Prison. Well, Margaret Thatcher personally spoke up for us and secured our release. So here we were in Zambia, and by the way, Zambia was sponsoring and supporting wars with all of their neighbours. They had everyone from the FNLA, the MPLA, UNITA, all operating from the west in Trangola, or Portuguese West Africa. that for Lima operating into TET province of Portuguese East Africa, they were hosting ZANU and ZAPU, who were terrorist support by the Soviet Union and China, fighting in Tunisia. They hosted the ANC right into the 80s, who were bringing landmines and limpet mines and car bombs and so on into South Africa. So not to mention supporting SWAPO, who were fighting into South West Africa, planting landmines, killing about 26,000 people in Namibia, or South West Africa as it was then. So Zambia destabilized all their neighbors. And for their crimes, the Rhodesian Air Force came and bombed a bunch of bridges and did quite a lot of cross-border raids of terrorist bases in Zambia. And Kenneth Kondo was often waving his white handkerchief, crying at his, what we call his bed sheet, which is a massive white handkerchief. And he'd be crying often about these horrible Rhodesians. No problem about the people he murdered and the missionaries that his terrorists he supported slaughtered in Rhodesia, but But when religions fought back then he was suddenly weeping and wailing and the United Nations were issuing condemnations and so on. So Kenneth Kunder locked up a whole lot of people here including missionaries and When we were taken into this prison cell, they opened the cell door to a sunless setting, so that really locked the people up. We could be out only during sun, when the sun was up. The darkened hours, we had to be in our cells. And so they opened the door, pushed us in, and said, these are terrorists responsible for deaths of millions. We have the brain box of terrorists. They were literally telling the prisoners in our cell, kill him, tear him apart, no problem. Because you can imagine when you go in, what do you say after an introduction like that? Well, I preached the gospel. And I found that some of the nicest people in Zambia were in that prison cell, including people who later became the next government of Zambia. You know, in Africa, yesterday's prisoner can become tomorrow's president. And it happened, too. I didn't meet him, but Frederick Chiluba was locked up in there for being a trade union leader. I didn't meet Frederick Zuluba while there, although he was there at the same time, but I did meet General Godfrey Miander, who was in prison for saying sanctions will hurt Zambia more than will hurt South Africa. And so there were some fine people locked up in a presidential detainee cell without trial. Now, obviously we didn't have cameras when we were locked up there. These pictures were taken later, because in 1991 I was invited to come back to Zambia for Kenneth Gonder to apologise to us, and we managed to get back to the prison to preach as well. And this is a staged picture. Obviously we wouldn't have been able to take these pictures when we were prisoners. This is what the cells were like. 60 to 65 people in a cell. Because Kenneth Cohen believed in the goodness of man, remember? So you couldn't lie on your back. You had to lie side by side like books on a shelf, like sardines. No running water, no sanitation, no plumbing. Can you imagine? And where the British put in a single cell to himself for furnishing, he could put 65 people in a cell with no furnishing, no plumbing, no electricity. And the only meal a day would be starch, what they call enzima, which we call suds in Rhodesia, what the Americans call grits, just stiff porridge. That's the only meal, one meal a day. No bowls, no knives, no forks, no spoons, literally dished onto your hands. You can eat like a dog. There's no utensils to eat with. I mean, can you imagine? Not even a leaf. Well, friends of ours ensured that the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was informed of our plight just before departure for the Commonwealth Conference in Vancouver. All these countries, and you notice the Ambush flag is the last one on the list because, you know, that's it. And so the whole British Commonwealth's gathering in Vancouver, and the chairman of the front line states is KK, Kenneth Kondo. Kenneth Kondo's main goal was to attack Margaret Thatcher for refusing to put sanctions on South Africa. And so he harangued Margaret Thatcher, and he is outraged that Britain is refusing to place economic sanctions on this pariah country of South Africa. Well, Margaret Thatcher responded, why doesn't Zambia itself put sanctions on South Africa? Well, that would put many people out of work, said Kenneth Grunder. Exactly, said Margaret Thatcher. And as South Africa is one of our most important trading partners, many British citizens would be placed out of work if I was to impose sanctions on South Africa. Quite a sample of many South Africans themselves would be put out of work. She went on to explain how Zambians would completely depend on South Africa. They ate mealy meal from the Orange Free State. Zambian airways was maintained by South African airways and South African engineers serviced engines. Zambian railways was maintained by South African railways and South African locomotives pulled their freight. South African veterinarians cared for Zambia's cattle. If a Zambian got bitten by a snake, the anti-snake bite serum came from Pretoria. Hundreds of thousands of Zambians were migrant workers in South Africa, and they brought millions and millions of pounds every year into Zambia's economy, which was totally essential for this country, which had the worst debt in the whole continent, in the whole world, actually. Zambia owed 166% of their gross national product. 166% debt is pretty bad. If you and I had debt like that, we'd probably be in jail. Kenneth Gunther then declared, because of South Africa's human rights record, Britain should impose sanctions. So at this point, Margaret Thatcher produced our information. Who are you to speak about human rights abuses? You are the unelected dictator of a one-party state. You have six British missionaries. Now, I'm South African, but my father fought all six years in the Second World War in the Eighth Army. And so he had a British passport, and he was able to pass it on to me. And I've used that for missionary work because that gets me into countries that South African passports didn't used to open the doors for. So it was strange, the only time we ever had all four missionaries on an outreach in front line, all had British passports. One was an Australian, but he had fought in the British paratroopers in Northern Ireland, so he had a British passport. We just all happened to have a British passport, so we were Britain's foreign office problem. You've got four British missionaries being held without trial as presidential detainees in Osaka Central Prison, tortured, abused by your own security forces. And Kenneth Kondo was absolutely dumbstruck. It was a KO, knockout. The Iron Lady had won the debate. He was humiliated. And apparently his first words when he got back to Osaka was, get those missionaries out of here. And so I was summoned to the machine gun tower where the grate was, and I put out my hands expecting the handcuffs. I'd had six previous interrogations. But instead, this man in a smart three-piece suit shook my hand and said, KK has ordered your release. On the way out, took me past the Freedom Monument. Not that this picture was taken on another occasion. We didn't have cameras with us. But I couldn't help but notice, why is your freedom statue behind bars? But that's very symbolic. The man up top's breaking chains, which some irreverent local people said, he's trying to bring two magnets together. Anyway, that's a freedom monument. So in 1999, KK had his lawyer contact us to ask me to come back to Zambia that they could apologize for the bad treatment we'd received. And I said to this lawyer, I know how this works. Ken Kunda's in immense trouble. He's got huge amounts of popular unrest. He's extremely unpopular. He wants to use us for a public relations gimmick to improve his standing in the polls as they're approaching their first elections ever. First multi-party elections, I should say. And so Ken Kunda said, basically, we let you come back. Main thing you've got to do is go on national TV program, ZNBC. Well, I said, I'll do this on one condition. I've got to be able to run an evangelistic crusade in Lusaka and must be able to get back to prison. I said, I can't go back to prison empty-handed. If I come back to Lusaka, I've got to preach in a prison, but I must bring things that my friends there need. I want to be able to bring food, vitamins, medicines, soap, pencils, pens, and a whole lot of different things that I said I had to be allowed to bring in. And when they gave the go-ahead for that, then I agreed. And this is the TV show that we went on. And when they started, I perceived this is live. And there's the red button on the lights come on on the camera. So I took a deep breath when the lady said, This must be very different from your first visit to Zambia. And then I just went into the hall without taking a breath. Yes, we were arrested for refusing to pay a bribe. We were detained first in Livingston police cells, where they stole all of our things, took away our shoes, and hooded us, shackled us, chained us, dragged us through to Lusaka, where we were dragged through the streets while we were singing hymns. And then we were thrown into Lusaka Central Prison which the British built for 80 people, but which are now crammed with more than 1,200, most of whom are Roman, haven't had a day in court. Some have been waiting eight years. And I went to the whole lot, no plumbing, no electricity, and so on, in the contrast with Kenneth Conder's humanist beliefs. And yet, how well the British treated him, how badly he's treating his own citizens now. And it makes the time of the British look good in comparison. And I just went. And you could see this woman. turning pale, getting absolutely shocked. But she couldn't stop. I didn't give her a pause, and I just related all her things against Kenneth Kondo. So I did my part, but we helped contribute to the rising discontent and opposition to Kenneth Kondo's dictatorship. Each day, I was able to preach in marketplaces, in the open air, street evangelism, and it was a wonderful opportunity organized by a friend, Bishop Bernali Ferri, who had first discovered us in a prison. Bernali Ferri was a Baptist evangelist, and he came as a chaplain to speak at the prison. He saw us, and he was so horrified. You know, where's your shoes? Where's your clothes? Where's your Bible? He was just horrified. Do you have soap, toothbrushes? No, nothing like that. Well, he blew the whistle, let it be known that we were locked up there. He let the British Embassy know, so the British Embassy started to bring us some food supplements because you don't survive on prison food. You need relatives to come and bring food for you each day. And the people in prison were normally quite well supplied. Some even shared their food with us. All we got from the British Embassy was twice some brown paper packets with a bunch of cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off. And everyone was just apoplectic with laughter. So that's what your British passport gets you, cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off. The British hate the crusts, it seems. They've got to cut off the crusts. Cucumber sandwiches, crust cut off. That's the only food supplement we got from the British Embassy. Probably after tea time, they said, we've got some chaps in the Sarko Central. What can we rustle up for them? That's all we got, the leftovers of their tea. And that's what the British thought we needed. We weren't getting anything, not the filaments, no toothbrushes, no toothpaste, no soap. Well, the other prisoners were helping us much better than our own embassy did. when only three organized the Lusaka outreach and us getting to prison. And it was actually quite magnificent, ministering in the churches and showing the Jesus film at night to the people in the open areas. Well, the movement became absolutely unstoppable. It was like a tsunami of opposition. And Frederic Chalhouba came to power 31st of October, 1991, on Reformation Day. and declared Zambia officially a Christian country, issued a national amendment to the constitution that effect. We were invited to come and do biblical worldview seminars in schools and teacher training colleges. And we were invited regularly into Zambia as VRPs. So we went from prohibited immigrants to VRPs, because the new government were people who used to be in the Sarko central prison. And now I find myself treated as something of a celebrity, because I'm a Rhodesian who was locked up by the KK. All over Zambia, we found doors wide open. The people treat us like royalty. It's just amazing, the singing, the enthusiasm. And the fact that I was an opponent of Kenneth Kondo and that he locked me up is like the best CD you could have in Zambia right now. So they abolished abortion. They banned pornography. They brought the Bible back into schools, Bible translation projects. The commissars were kicked out of the army. Now chaplains were brought in. And we got diminished on the radio and TV. Our good friend, Bernali Friddy, became our best contact there. We took him all kinds of great books. This is General Godfrey Meander, who had been locked up as a presidential detainee under Kenneth Grunder. Vice President and Minister of Education. And once I brought him a big pile of books, all of the good things you can see in our library downstairs. Biblical economics, crime and punishments from a biblical point of view, all these things. And he groaned. He said, I love reading. I love books. But the demands of office gives me very little time for reading. Don't you have a small book that summarizes all of these? And that was the challenge that led me to produce the Biblical Principles for Africa book, which he bought hundreds of and distributed them to every member of parliament. And so Biblical Principles for Africa, I can particularly thank General Godfrey Meander. He's the one who challenged me to produce this book. Reverend Earl O. Steegan did the foreword for it. And this has gone through multiple editions, over 48,000 copies in print, including in Afrikaans and French. And so, praise God for General Godfrey Mianda. I spoke to him while I was in Lusaka now, but only by phone, which is quite sick. And that's gone as far as the Congo, all over Africa. We've helped with producing some Christian textbooks, getting him to the villages. Now, to be fair, Frontline never planned to minister in Zambia. When I went there in October 1987, our only goal was to drive through Zambia and get to Malawi from where we would deploy and minister to Mozambique. But because we were unavoidably detained, The Lord led us to a holy ministry, and Zambia has become a very important place for us to base our work in, because Zambia is so centrally located. Just like the Soviets used to use the Mandukunda to be a base for terrorists to go across the border, now we are using Zambia as a base of operations for evangelizing and discipling Angola, Congo, Mozambique, Zimbabwe. Seminars, conferences, outreaches. I've taken my youngest son up during his homeschooling to Zambia and used him to show the fathers how you must teach your children to memorize the scripture. Because he could give the whole evangelism explosion by the master presentation himself. From the time he's been six, he's been taking meetings. So I took him up and we drove through Namibia and I could show, this is where we used to swim across the river in Sangola, smuggling in Bibles and had them taking school assemblies, made an impact for them to see a little kid of, at this stage he's only eight, giving presentations at assemblies. When I took them to the pastor seminars and showed them, you can teach your children to memorize the scriptures, 10 Commandments, Apostles, Creed, and so on. It just takes repetition, it's not difficult. All children soak up these informations easily. Well, General Rodney Shikapasha was another friend. He was at one time head of the Zambian Air Force, a lieutenant general. He was crippled in a car accident, told he'd never walk again. His wife got converted. He got converted. He got healed. He became Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Home Affairs, and sometimes Minister of Information. So for years, he served in Zambia, and we were able to arrange through him to meet the president. President Levy Mawanawasa had a background in the Jehovah's Witnesses, but the JWs don't allow you to become involved in politics. So because he got involved in politics, he was excommunicated. Well, I got to him shortly after that, and we shared the gospel. I spent an hour with him. We prayed. We read the Bible. We presented him a Christian flag. He shortly after that got converted, baptized the local Baptist church, and became a member of the local church. Levi Uwanawasa is the one who welcomed ex-Zimbabwean farmers who were kicked out by Mugabe and gave them land in Zambia. And when I met him, Zambians had just strengthened their currency against the dollar and the pound, first time in history. And I congratulated him. He says, oh, you must thank Mugabe for that. All the farmers that he had kicked out, we invited here. And they've made Zambia food sufficient. And now we can export food. And exchange rates has improved and all this. So he said, yes, thank you to Mugabe. What he kicked out has turned our economy around. Well, here we are at Livingston. You can see Livingston used to be the capital of Northern Malaysia, by the way. The British chose Lusaka because it was very central to be the capital. It was just a railway siding, not a single hut there. Nobody lived there when the British made it the capital, I think in 1904. And Lusaka today is well over a million people, massive. Well, we've had great books donated to us from around the world, which we've taken into Zambia, even boxes with love prepared for the Christian suffering in Zimbabwe that we've often deployed through Zambia. It's hard to get across White Bridge with anything, but going up to Zambia and coming down into Zimbabwe, we've used lots of boxes with love great teacher training materials, resources for schools. These yellow bags of gospel recordings, waterproof backpacks for the literature and audiovisual evangelism. You can see our DVD and VCD kits like you can see in our display cabinets around here. This is the kind of kits being prepared for a team to go into the field and equip a whole lot of evangelists from Zambia to go into the Congo, into Angola, into Mozambique, into Zimbabwe to evangelize. So one of our teams preparing to go on a mission to Zimbabwe, to Zambia, and this is one of the old churches you saw we did evangelism in before, but now it's replaced with a much bigger church. A lot of Zambia's economy takes place on the streets, and many, many people sitting on the streets and selling their wares, eking out an existence. They had a long way to go to climb out of the poverty that socialism takes them in. Many women spend their days smashing rocks into small gravel pieces that they can sell for very little, that people can use for gravel in their roads or maybe to mix with concrete. And this is a living for some people. See the little hammer in her hand? And this person's churning these bigger rocks into small gravel. And that's an income for many families. What's also intriguing is the name she gets on some of these buses and trucks. Suicide mission in God we trust. I suppose they go together in some way. Well, here's a monument to Kwame Nkrumah. Anyone know where Kwame Nkrumah comes from? Ghana. He declared himself the redeemer. The redeemer. He is the savior of Africa, he is the redeemer. He started a personality cult in Ghana, and he got kicked out very shortly thereafter because his people had enough of his delusions and his arrogance. And he was on an overseas speaking tour. He came back and he found he'd been kicked out, and he came back to just be put in jail. Well, Kenneth Gunder dedicated a monument to Kwame Nkrumah. And the first president of independent republic, first dictator as well. The first dictator to be overthrown, so there's a lot of firsts for them. Kwame Nkrumah. And the local Zambians say he's waving goodbye to prosperity, to money, to success, to productivity, to health, and all the rest of it. Well, the local Zambians just see Kwame Nkrumah as a local joke. In fact, the economy is very much like this vehicle of yours. No engine, no wheels, no chance of going anywhere. And again, the famous freedom statue, breaking the chains. Interestingly, the new Christian government of Zambia started to put out signs to educate people. Do not allow beggars to become perpetually dependent on you. Community-based rehabilitation is the answer. Do not give alms to street beggars. It only funds vice, basically. The problem of children in the streets is yours and mine. Don't be left out. Be part of the solution. Discourage begging. Discourage alcohol abuse and drug abuse. And so this is from the Department of Social Welfare. Have you ever seen any responsible signs like this set up in South Africa? I haven't. This, by the way, is a famous tree in Kabwe, old Broken Hill. And they've actually got a sign here that this large fig tree served as a meeting place. On many occasions during the early years of the township's history, many of the safaris had started out from beneath the trade. The local people called this the slave trader's tree. Now, how do you like how the Corinda government changed it? The slave trader's caravans taking these people and trains was called safaris. In Swahili, safari is a journey, but I don't think the local people would have thought of it in the same way as people who think of a safari in Kenya today. Many were the safaris that start out from beneath the shade. Yeah, that's one way to put it, but it's not very honest. Well, David Livingston came to Zambia, walked from one side to the other, and proclaimed the gospel, provided people with the first proclamation of the gospel in that country, and healed many lives. And you'll see downstairs, we've got some postage stamps produced by Zambia framed in a reception area of Zambia at the anniversary of David Livingston's death, 100th anniversary of his death, 1973. celebrating the fact that he traced the Muslim slave traders out. And it's got a picture of Livingston literally tracing the Arab slave traders out of Zambia, which is a good reminder. Unfortunately, many have forgotten what Zambia is preserved from. And today, you can see many mosques growing up. And there are families, poor families, who sold their children into slavery. So they come to a family and say, We can provide free education to your children. And if they learn Arabic very well, they might even get a university bursary to go and study in Mecca or Cairo or something like that. And they just have to sign the kids over to the local mosque. And the local mosques have been found. They found investigations of kids kept in chains and kids forcibly chained in Zambia, beaten. If they speak their own language, they've got to speak Arabic, and forced to stand out in the open, holding a brick in each hand, not lowering their hands or they get whipped. If they do, they've got to only speak Arabic, and they've got to recite the Quran. And these kids are being literally brainwashed, beaten, enslaved. And so the governor, Frederick Jalouba, did expose this to the Minister of Education, modern-day Islamic slavery, and done with the parents' permission. Many businesses run by Arabs, you can see the men lining up outside, pretending to be Muslims, hoping for some charity or to be employed. And the Arabs say, we have jobs, but we can only give it to Muslims. And so in many ways, they are creating rice bowl Muslims, so to speak, where the people are told, if you want charity, if you want a job, you've got to become a Muslim. And so it just shows how important it is that Christians help and that we should step into the gap. We should be providing good education and help these people. I was there for a demonstration. And interestingly, unlike Covina's years where they just shot down the protesters, now under the MMD government, people could protest. And in fact, the attitude seemed very relaxed on the side of the police and the army. Yes, they've got tear gas canisters in case of disbursement. But there was no hostility. The local people didn't seem to be afraid of the police. And we were distributing biblical principles for Africans at that event as well. So a good sign of a country when you've got freedom of speech, freedom to protest, and a very happy response at the entrance to Parliament from some of the local people, and meeting many of our good friends in Zambia, real freedom. The roads are in a mess. This is the Great East Road. Under Coimbra, nothing had been repaired, but under the new MMD, Christian government, they started to repair many of the roads. I mean, can you imagine, you're driving down the main road, this is the Great East Road, and there you've got a pick and a shovel standing in the middle of the road, nobody around, but you kind of wonder what is the purpose. Maybe we should be doing something. Well, sort of towards those two hills there, we established a front-line fellowship base at Petraeuca. The communists used to have terrorist bases based at Petraeuca who attacked Phrygia. We put a Bible college there. We had to hack the road through to there. There was no road established. And we established a covenant college at Petraeuca. Can anyone guess what this scripture quote is on the red? If you think about it, you'll be able to interpret it. Well, what phrase in the Bible is repeated three times? Only holy, holy, holy. You don't get love, love, love. It's holy, holy, holy. That's what's on that symbol there. So here we had a three-year program. We found, of all the churches in eastern Zambia, there was only one pastor who had Bible college training. So we sent out a Scottish missionary, who was one of our coworkers at that stage, and David Fraser, he set up Covenant College. And it grew and grew and grew, and we sent up teachers like, some may remember, Rob McCafferty, running teacher training. This is Pastor David Fraser, who set up the Cabinet College, and he was a King James only, Psalms only, ladies must wear hats in church, Scotsman. If we sang a hymn, he would sit in the front row reading a newspaper by way of protest, because he did not believe in singing hymns, only the Psalms. and a real hardcore Scotsman. But anyway, he did a good job at this college. And first graduation service after a three-year training program. And David Frey is much missed these days. Our good friend, Bishop Bernali Frey, and our friend, Eugene Colunga, were at the first graduation service. And Covent College has continued every three years to produce a whole lot of graduates and greatly enrich the churches in eastern Zambia. That's the first graduating class. Notice the auntie there from Scotland wearing a hat, because the Scots really loved the idea of ladies wearing hats in churches. The library we helped establish. Victoria, one of our co-workers from Minnesota, helping set up the library. And this is a Scottish family and lovely area. Some of the accommodation is as simple as a caravan that got donated in Cape Town and shipped all the way up there. And then we found a ministry in the hospitals. Many of these hospitals, they're government hospitals, they had huge amounts of medicines, like this hospital, 280 bed hospital, but no one able to sign for the medicines because there's no doctor there. Because all the doctors from this area have moved to Lusaka or gone overseas, or they now work in Canada or Australia or something. So we would get volunteer doctors from the West, like Scotland in this case, to donate their holidays. And they'd come out. And they wouldn't have to build a mission hospital. They could work in a government hospital. They'd even get a salary. And they've got staff. They've got beds. They've got the whole hospital just by people in the West who've got medical training, donate their time. The government hospital welcomed them in. got the opportunity to reach these people. We were doing evangelism, literature distribution, film evangelism for the patients waiting to be seen. But just by providing a volunteer, how many of our people who are retired doctors in the West could donate a holiday and come and work for a few months in a country like Zambia and make a big difference? Our team's doing literature distribution in the marketplace. Anyone know what type of food this is here? Kapenta. Anyone eaten Kapenta? It's like little sardines. Yes, I'm sure Frank's had to eat that. I mean, that's sometimes all you get. And this is sun-dried. And this is like snacking some kind of chips. They're crunchy and so on, because it includes the bones, the tail, the whole lot, teeth. So this capenta's actual food, the little sardines from the lakes that they've harvested, and they've now been sun-dried, and people chomp on these like they chomp on popcorn and chips. Of course, there's always lots of room for children of evangelism, a lot of enthusiasm, and we've done Bible college ministry from the beginning. This is World Baptist Evangelistic Association of Bonali Friday. He'd always organize seminars, and there's so many choirs. Every church got choirs, and what's a choir without choir robes? They have to have choir robes. And some of the people joining in, and It's kind of funny, we have this, the one front line photographer who's actually seen clapping and dancing was Victoria, but the rest of us were probably standing as stiff as a pole. But anyway, the poor Zambians must have been a bit despairing at our lifeless hymns compared to their joyous choruses that they'd be dancing to. But we managed to introduce him to PowerPoint presentations and Christian films that they'd never seen before. Don't you like those white gloves as well? Doesn't it make you sing better when the choir master's got white gloves on? and many more seminars and conferences. I'll show you this church later, how well decorated it was. But when we first started, it was an old beer hall, Bible, Gospel, a church in Africa, which had been done out. My father-in-law, Bill Bethlen, bought the property from the railways, which became Excellence Christian Academy. Eugene Kalunga and his people By the way, Victoria was kind of very cheeky. She had an FBI t-shirt, Firm Believer in Christ. FBI, Firm Believer in Christ. People see FBI and immediately attention is got. So that's a sneaky way of evangelizing. Excellence Christian Academy grew to hundreds of students in the end. It was a great project, Bill Bethman's vision, and we've had joy in trying to support them since. When you see a mowed lawn like that, that's pretty impressive. And we taught them the Evangelism Explosion training program, brought them textbooks, helped the school in many different ways. I must say, everyone in Frontline used to go to Excellence Christian Academy in Kabwe. Kabwe used to be known as Broken Hill. One of the evolutionary men were found in Broken Hill. A lot of propaganda, but still it put the place on the map. Now it's called Kabwe. So I had people saying to me, the Christian flag is bigger than the Zambian flag. Why is that? I said, because God's kingdom is bigger than Zambia. Oh, no, it's a fact. We're doing Evangelism Explosion presentation here, marching song. And this is a Canadian, Lauren, who worked with us for some time. And Lauren was, Gilderman was a very effective missionary, could use more Canadians like that. Feel sorry for him locked up there in the prison, the sort of Cuba of the North up there. Tim was another American volunteer, worked with us for years, did good work. and Eugene Kalunga, the principal of Excellence Christian Academy. Here we were celebrating the 10th anniversary of the school. And in the evening, they had a Bible school that met night school. But often, to show you how fast the church are growing, you're often teaching in a building site. They haven't yet painted, plastered, or put in the windows yet, but this is the sign of a healthy, growing The church is growing so fast that we can't keep up with the buildings, can't even keep up with the Bibles. This is Paul Baptist Evangelistic Association, another Bible college. This is, I think, Morning Star Bible College run by South Korean Missionary. I think this is the Apostolic Faith Mission Bible College. another night school, Bible College in Osaka, Christian Voice, Bible College, and they have a big radio station broadcasting shortwave radio throughout Africa, very far and wide. Evangelists coming and getting equipped, gospel recordings, materials, and our team and our bucky at that stage, that's before we got a much better four-wheel drive. This is a good picture to use when you need fundraising for your team's vehicle. Yeah, I got the impression this wasn't our vehicle, but it just looked good. A bit like driving a socialist car. This is now secular school or college, as you can see. Everything's been stripped. There's nothing there. This is what a government university looks like. And then the teacher training colleges, we would come and offer them various books. And I got into the practice of trying to produce a new book every year. So on each speaking chair, we could be distributing that book, whether it's the South Japan book, the book of principles for Africa, reforming our families, greatest century of missions, and so on. people coming forward to swap the literature tables. You know, it's a bit discouraging. In a Western country, you can tell people there's literature, maybe one or two people look. But in Africa, you let people know about the literature table, they storm it. There's such enthusiasm. It's so great for literature ministry to see people who want to read. The Zambians love books. Eugene Korongo of Excellence Christian Academy, getting more books for his library. Now some of these churches have all sorts of ribbons and so on decorating the place to show the enthusiasm that they've got guests. So it's not unusual to be in a place where it looks like, sometimes it looks like they've decorated the church with toilet paper, but anyway, it just shows a kind of festive spirit. Colourful flowers, in many cases fake flowers, probably came from China as well. One of our good friends in Lusaka is the Coptic Orthodox Church of the See of St. Mark, good people, John Banoop, and this is a... mission station from Egypt. So these are Egyptian Coptic missionaries who've got a clinic and a church in Lusaka. And such a joy to minister with them. If I'm sick in Lusaka, that's where I'd want to go, to these Coptic Egyptians. I think they've got some of the finest doctors and pharmacists around. And they're well respected. Good work that they're doing. And you can see Egyptian missionaries and Zambian congregation. Some of our front-line seminars that we've done up there, we've run many a leadership training course from different mission bases. This is World Baptist Evangelistic Association. They're a fraternal of evangelists who go across the border to all the neighboring countries. And Bonali Ferry in the middle and his team of evangelists. He's got 70 evangelists that he's supporting, that we're equipping, that work throughout Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique. Some even go to Angola and the Congo. And then afterwards receiving their books and booklets, evangelistic kit, chaplains coming for books for them, slavery, terrorism, Islam books in this case. Frontline hymn books being distributed up there. Evangelism training programs. And here's a South Korean missionary who's running this Morning Star Bible College. Wonderful to see other countries like South Korea taking the initiative to send out missionaries. Bernardi Frey's very busy office. He's got such vision. He was brought up, well, I was brought up in Bulawayo and Matabele land. Speaks Matabele, speaks Shona. Of course, he's based in Zambia now, but he's got a big burden for reaching out to Zimbabwe, because that's where his father worked and where he was brought up. So on this occasion, we provided food for him to take to people who are starving in Zimbabwe. And here, we're providing food and other things for the prisoners in Lusaka Central Prison, everything from dental training, Bible study training programs, and lots of good food and so on for them. Helping the people in Zimbabwe during the worst times of the droughts under Mugabe, and evangelistic church planting where they only have a tent. And here is where the Ministry of Defence operates in Versailles, and where we manage to meet cabinet ministers for outreachers. different books, meeting with the President of the State House, which used to be where Satan would come and meet with Corinda, and Mugabe, and Choson, and all those characters. And now it's where they have Christian presence, which makes a nice change. And Levi Moana was a Christian flag. Some of the radio stations, like Christian Voice, ministering our radio. And Christian Voice here has strong shortwave radio connectivity with all of Africa. And always a favorite stop to minister with them. Radio Phoenix, also on FM. This is the Zambian national TV broadcasting place. Back in 2008, I drove my son up across Namibia and the Golden Highway to get into Zambia, across the Zambezi River, and lots of memories of good old times. Zambia's been putting up new statues to Livingston. They're not pulling down statues, they're putting more up. This one was put up in 2005 on the 150th anniversary of Livingston naming and mapping Victoria Falls. So that's on the Zambian side. And Victoria Falls is so inspiring. It's such a mighty, millions and millions of litres coming over every minute. And we'd be so soaked, even without going in the water. If we jumped in the Zambezi, we couldn't have got more wet than the mist had made us. Even down to your boots, your socks, totally soaked. Zambezi River. You just think of when David Livingston came there and he crawled to the edge and let down a weighted string to measure how high it was. 310 feet high. And that's what it is. That's accurate. He measured across 1,680 feet, is it? And he's dead right. And so on. How do you measure a waterfall? And of course, there was the rainbow. And on the other side, Zimbabwe. Now, this reminded me, when I was a 12-year-old boy, I came to Victoria Falls. I stood at the Zambezi, and I looked across at Zambia with horror. There's the enemy. I can never stand on that side, on the northern side of the Zambezi River. And to think, several years later, I'm over there with my son. We're looking south at Zimbabwe and thinking, when will we be allowed to stand on that side of the Zambezi again? Interesting how things change. When I went to Zambezi River first, the Zambian security forces had just shot two Canadian girls dead, a 19-year-old and a 21-year-old girl. They were shot just because they were white. They didn't know they were Canadian. They shot them because they were so hyped up with hostility by Kenneth Gonder's speeches. And they never managed to recover one of the bodies that fell down Victoria Falls. I never thought I'd stood in Zambia, let alone be an official guest in the country. Here's a model showing you the different ravines around Victoria Falls. The Livingston Museum. And a wild cat that we woke up to opening up our whiskers had food. We always take food from strays. And we woke up to hearing this crackling. And the cat had used his bag opener, master key, the claws. So we woke up seeing this cat was feeding himself happily that night. Of course, you've got to sleep under your mosquito nets. We would just camp out normally with these domed tents. And there's wildlife around in some of these areas. Some of the feeding programs done by Bible Gospel Church in Africa. And people being helped in different ways. Dr. Peter Ndlovu was one of our board members, good friend of Bernardi Ferri. And he turned this beer hall into a wonderful church building facility and helped us in launching Africa Christian Action in Zambia. Bible Gospel Church in Africa, and what they call a Holy Ghost Center, a house of prayer for all nations. And we've had many a seminar there. My son made such an impact, they brought Zambia National TV over to film him giving the gospel presentation, which they thought amazing that a youngster that age could recite a gospel presentation that was broadcast on national TV. another school assembly in the morning. And once Calvin was missing, I went looking for him and I found him. He'd walked into a preschool classroom and he'd started just teaching him. And the poor teacher just stood back and let this boy carry on. Well, I mean, you can't exactly rebuke kids for taking initiative. These are different Bible cultures we've ministered in over the years. A good friend, Ronnie Shikapeshwa. My wife was horrified when she saw this picture. She said, how could you take him in to meet the Minister of Foreign Affairs dressed like that? And he wore the same trousers the whole trip, I think. And he looks a bit sloppy. When we walked in through security, he had a big, rainbow-type navel knife on his belt, sheath knife. And the policeman said, oh, toy knife. And Calvin immediately turned to, no. And I put my hand over his mouth, kept walking. Let them think it's a toy knife. That's fine. But he walked in with his massive, big, rainbow dagger. And as you can see on the one side, I don't know where he got the idea from to walk around with knives and so on his belt, but there we go. Can you imagine cycling with that many eggs? But people are entrepreneurs. You've got to be an entrepreneur to survive in a country where you've got thieves as government officials. You can see from the candles, you could have power failures up there, and you'd have to sometimes administer by candlelight. And this is the Lusaka Baptist Church, which Levi Mwanawasa joined and was baptized there. On this occasion, we were just giving a missions conference, and some of the homes we've stayed in. This is where Kenneth Koundé used to meet with his Yuna people. He used to wave his white handkerchief around and weep and wail about the evil religions. This is called, I think, Mulungusi, which basically means, there is no other god. which some say could mean there's no God, or we are God. But that was where UNIP rallies were held. Let me get through some more of these. Great times, lots of memories of different events and people, ministries. Bishop Reuben Wiley, who's one of our hosts now, he did our Great Commission course many years ago, and he launched a lot of ministries since then. And other good friends, Bernali Ferry's people. Just in Mali, Theological University College is where I was staying recently on this last mission. And nice people, built by the Dutch Formed Church, handed over now to the Reformed Church of Zambia. And we've had many a seminar, we've had conferences there. Reformation conferences, donated tons of books. administered there on different occasions, including 2017 for the Reformation 500 event, Zambian National TV. This is Cairo Road. I know people who were in the reconnaissance commando who had sabotaged missions against the ANC headquarters in Cairo Road, Freedom House, who were being chased by Zambian police down this road with guns blazing. And you know, Cairo Road's quite famous in the Southern Army's memory, and the war memorial from the Second World War, because Northern Eurasians were deployed to fight for Britain, and now the Ministry of Defence is in that building. The separate entrance for the President at the National Airport. Here's the Freedom Monument, and behind it is a building built by the Chinese for UNEP, but UNEP never got to use it because it got thrown out before the building was complete. ghastly buildings, but this is the kind of thing China builds. Nothing in it works. Lord be my saviour. Well, that's a good name on the back of a taxi. Vote for Jesus. How's that? That's pretty good. Victory in Jesus. So you can see some of them have a different kind of taxi culture than we've got in Cape Town. And this is the beer hall that was turned into Bible Gospel Church in Africa. And it's quite an amazing church now. It looks quite spectacular. It's called the House of Prayer for All Nations. It's a nice name for any church. We've had many a Christian Action Network meeting there, launched Christian Action Network there in this Bible Gospel Church. And you can see how it's changed from when it was a beer hall. Can you imagine? Isn't it a great idea to take over a beer hall and turn it into a church? And we've had many friends there, launched many a seminar. It was always a place for frontline rallies. They would often on Friday nights have an all-night prayer meeting, and apparently that's still continuing to this day. Just reading books to participants in a Christian Action Rally, some of the people with their books. and with different flags that they're identifying with, evangelists of Bible Gospel Church in Africa. And so these are some of the people we should be remembering and praying for. and Bishop Pete and Lorvo and his people. They've got these thrones up front where the people are meant to sit. And I must say, it's a bit disconcerting. When you begin a service, they've got people who come and kneel in front of you, and they're the ushers. And they want to take your bag, your handbag, whatever it is. They want to carry my backpack, although the poor guy struggles to pick my backpack up. I wouldn't let anyone carry my backpacks normally, but I wanted to show him when he said he'll carry it. I thought, this weedy little character, what makes him think he can carry my bag better than I can? So I let him try. But at the end of the service, they asked the whole congregation to stand. Then they come, they stand in front of you, and they take your bags, and then they escort you down in like a processional while everyone's standing and waiting. Peter Ndlova, the founder of the Bible Gospel Church in Africa, turned into a massive denomination in Zambia, which is quite an extraordinary achievement. Don't you like all the gold? I like all the flags, personally. I found the gold there a bit distracting. But the flowers have been beautifully arranged. People take church very, very seriously there. And I always found it a bit strange, all these tables and, you know, you have ice, water brought for you to drink, and you see the cameramen all set up there. So that's Bible Gospel Church in Materu. And you can't turn out in these churches dressed like we do in our average churches. You must dress up in your very best. I think it's a rebuke to how the western churches have got the sloppy. The ministers there take it very seriously. And there's so many churches around, you go there and they're still building the church. There's so much growth that you can be in a church and preach, and they haven't built the roof yet. They haven't put windows. There's no flooring done. But it just shows growth. And they've got vision for the future. They're building much bigger than they are using it now, because they've got a vision of church growth. And this just reminds us the church in Africa is growing in leaps and bounds, and we need to grow with that vision, and that's what we're trying to do with the African Christian Network and Literature for Africa, provide Bibles and Bible teaching to help the people who are trying to respond to the Great Commission. It's quite inspiring to speak in a church where they don't even have a roof, but you don't always think of putting on sun cream when you're about to preach that Sunday morning, and you can get quite sunburned. Yeah, walking in covenants with God. That's the theme for the year. I've seen many churches have got a banner up in Zambia with the theme for the year. And I presume they expect all the sermons of that year to be in line with that theme in one way or another. But it's a good idea to have a theme and remind yourself of how we're growing each year from strength to strength. And again, notice frequently there's uniforms for the choir in particular. I think we can learn a lot from how these folks dress and how they conduct their services. I've been campaigning for a long time that you shouldn't just have a water pump, and we've built quite a few water pumps, you need a concrete lip around it, because you've often got the chickens and the dogs scratching around the mud to drink, how they manage, and you just breed mosquitoes, so you must put in a bit of extra money when you do a a water pump and put a concrete lip for the water to drain away and perfectly into a bigger drainage area that the goats and chickens have somewhere to drink the water in a clean format. Because often these water pumps are just surrounded by mud and mosquitoes and disease. So I think that extra bit of effort makes a big difference. Sometimes the meetings are home meetings, which expand so much that they go into the garden, and people gather outside. And again, it just shows the church growth is so intense that the biggest problem they've got is not enough accommodation, not enough chairs, and so on. People might even bring chairs from their home to add. But there's a house meeting that just grew out of control. Too many guests that day. And these are nice problems to have. Always we want to go with literature, so taking the people up to good books, where people read, signing people up for Christian Action Network. These are some of the seminars and opportunities we've had to run over the years, and more people gathering, some of the books being distributed. We have authors donating books to us that we can then give to people on the ground. like the battle for truth, and one thing you can't do in heaven, one heartbeat away. And then we would often have boxes prepared on this side by the Church of Africa with orders, different people had ordered different books. So here we're able to carry it up by vehicle. And the people who, maybe they're not even at the meeting, but friends nearby can take, this is the package addressed to this chap, Joel Kapasa, maybe at Zapata and so on. And somebody will get it to him. So that's part of our postal service. Bonali Ferry, our longest standing friend in Zambia. Now, he had said to me years ago, Peter, when I die, I want you to take my funeral. So I reminded him of it when I was up there. And he says, ha, I might be speaking at your funeral. So what makes you think I'm going to go first? And I like that spirit. I mean, here the man is in his 70s now, and he's talking about outliving me. That's pretty good. That's a good attitude. Well, he's got to. a school in this area as well. Every time I go, I'm always amazed to see this whole museum around, seeing pictures from how many different outreaches, so many people we know, and flags, visions. Walgram, have you heard of Walgram? World Gospel Ministries? There's so many initiatives going on. You can just see Christianity in Zambia is so dynamic, it's so diverse, so energetic. And I think you could say that about Nigeria as well. There's just a phenomenal amount of different ministries growing, and these people have such a lot of enthusiasm. We need to support them and provide them with leadership training, love and action, literature. That's the big challenge. For Zambia, for Christ Our Vision. I was welcomed at the airport by a whole delegation of pastors, including Bishop Reuben Wiley and his team. Justin here was my chauffeur while I was there. I decided this time to travel with a hiking stick, and everywhere I was called Old Man. I've never been called Old Man so much. And people would say, Old Man, and introducing the elderly, Dr. Peter Hammond, and I don't know if that's because of the walking stick, but... I like the idea of having a hiking stick. It's a good weapon that you can travel by plane with. If you've got grey hair, you can get away with it. But everywhere I was called old, an old man, which I presume is polite in Zambia. It wouldn't be in America or South Africa. One of the first schools we ministered in, called Antioch School. What a good Christian name. What's the importance of Antioch? In the Bible it says, at Antioch, the believers were first called Christians. Antioch was one of the great missionary sinning churches in the Bible. Well, then we had a Pastors Fraternal. This was actually a Christian Action Network seminar and conference. It launched the whole vision and people enthusiastic, very enthusiastic, had to join this African Christian Network. The Ministry of Defence, Chaplain General, asked us if we could please help them establish a Livingston Missionary Training School. And there's the Chaplain in charge of the Army, he's of the whole Defence Force, and then we've got Bishop Manali Ferry. Because we helped train the chaplains of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army, the SPLA in Sudan, and we equipped them with bibles and bicycles and bible media. audio bibles like we have there, the chaplains work in the field, and launched the chaplains corps of the South Sudan, what became the South Sudan Army. And with our background of working with Rwanda and Mozambique and Indonesia and Angola, we've produced chaplains' handbooks over the years, chaplains' prayer books, and now we've got the chaplains' handbook, which is not only a handbook for Sydney's chaplains, but hopefully can be for Zambia as well. This is what the Bible Gospel Church in Africa looks like now. and ministering amongst people today. The World Baptist Christian Community School, Bonali Ferry said that this school was started by one of our female missionaries, I think Lynn, with just 12 students and now they've got over 280. So this is his mission station in Lusaka. Notice he's got a picture of Bill Bathman over his office door. I thought that was very nice. And many of his students, he says, some of their students have ended up being teachers and nurses. Quite an inspiring growth of this little mission station in Lusaka. When I refer you, he's built it up. And they were to teach him the evangelism explosion program. This is the Pastors Fraternals, where we have a lot of people enthusiastic. Edge TV, which is one of the Zambian stations that we were able to speak on. And One Love radio station, radio call and show. We've got the latest Gospel Defence League newsletter on the Olympic scandal available on the table by the door. Any questions at all on Zambia and Congo? Taking a trip down memory lane. I don't know if anyone here, aside from Frank, remembers many of the people in these places. But still, it's a lot of memory for me. Any questions at all on either Zambia or Okonga? Frank? I believe they upgraded it from patch to tent. Oh, where? Well, it looks like there's a socket in there. Yeah, I think they probably started corrugate iron in Lusaka, but in the countryside that would have been all that was available, I would imagine. Any other questions? Thank you, Peter, for the feedback. Did you say that you encountered more I don't think any of the false prophets would invite me or be happy to have me around anyway. These people are not the health and wealth prosperity bunch, as you can see. Most of them are pretty humble locations, but the people who are happy to receive me would be those who are only interested in the simple, straightforward gospel, the reformed position. I would have no attraction to these big name evangelists and their name it, claim it, and frame it, crowd. I tend to speak against it too, so I don't think I met any of those false prophets at all. I would think so, yes, very much. I've been to Nigeria, too, and yes, over there, I'd say they have many gimmicks they've picked up from TV and, you know, TB Joshua and all those characters. So Nigeria's got a lot of fly-by-night scams. Zambia's a lot more serious. And you can see there's real solid Christianity on the ground, which gives you hope for the future. But it's an exciting project that we may be training chaplains at Livingston, which is what a beautiful, wonderful venue to be close to Victoria Falls and Vesey River. We're training chaplains hopefully from other countries too. That's a large part of the vision of Afro for Christ. We can train the chaplains. And that's police, prisons, chaplains, army chaplains. The possibilities are vast. And remember also in the army, in Africa today, many of the army officers may end up being next government, the way things go. You get destabilized corrupt governments and often replaced. To reach the soldiers for Christ is extremely strategic. To reach the prisoners is also strategic because many of the prisoners of today are going to be the government of tomorrow too. So you might as well reach them while you can, captive audience. Was there any or did you encounter any so-called bribery? Attempts at bribery. You know, that's an interesting point you bring that up. I didn't come across much attempts at bribery. I had a few minor little attempts which we just brushed off. But in the past we've come across bribery everywhere. Now in the Congo, non-stop bribery and corruption. Paul Johans already said it's like non-stop, they're trying to suck the life out of every friend and visitor to the country, and you've got these bribe-hungry officials at roadblocks. No flags, no uniforms, no IDs, no name tags, but there's just people all over the place. Once in one kilometer came across five roadblocks, all demanding bribes. So, they can't even be all official. So Congo is one non-stop bribery marathon, bribery-thon.