City Church, Harare, Zimbabwe

City Church has a very strategic place in ministry in Harare, Zimbabwe that goes back decades.

	Located in the beautiful City of Harare, the City Church is lead by an apostolic shepherd, Cleopas  Gwavava and his wife Willet Gwavava. Throughout the years, Zimbabwe has had times of prosperity and recently times of great need. Cleopas came into relationship with Alan (and others) in the mid 1980's. From this time onwards, His relationship with Alan and others in Lifelink developed.
	Cleopas began as an evangelist in 1942 planting churches in Zimbabwe. In 1973, he attended a Bible College in Zimabwe for 3 years. In 1976, Billy Graham invited him to a conference in Amsterdam for 21 days on planting and running churches. Sometime around 1980 he visited the UK having been invited by Bryn Jones. In the 1980's and 90's, Alan Scotland became very involved with Cleopas.
Cleopas Gwavava
Alan, Cleopas, Barry Barry with Cleopas	The churches in Zimbabwe flourished and Cleopas also planted churches in Malawi and Mozambique. From 1998, Richard Bartrop travelled regularly into Zimbabwe (often with other leaders from the UK and USA) putting on Leadership Conferences. In 2000, Hope College, opened with a diploma program in Zimbabwe. The college alternated between Zimbabwe and Zambia until the campus in Lusaka, Zambia became available. Although the years have brought trials and difficulties, Cleopas is still seen as a father figure with many churches in the Southern Africa Region . The pictures below show the City Church in downtown Harare. Take a look at the pictures and view the video of Cleopas sharing what it is like ministering in Zimbabwe.
The Choir Sings	Cleopas Preaching
Setting up Sunday Morning	City Church Congregation
Leaders of City Church	Leaders Gather For Special Meal

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Cleopas and Willet Gwavava live in a lovely house in Harare. The house has a large court area in front and an area in the front outside that Willet serves food she cooks to earn some income during the difficult times all of Zimbabwe is going through. Willet cooks in an outdoor kitchen which illustrates the traditional way food has been cooked over many years. Because of the hardships currently in Zimbabwe, many people have moved out of Zimbabwe or out into the rural areas to grow mealy meal.
Click on the picture to the right and you will be able to see Celopas and Willet's home and Willet cook in her outdoor kitchen. You can choose an mp4 (click the picture) or a wmv (at the bottom of this page. This is fascinating to watch.