Renowned Seventh Day Adventist leader Pastor Joe Lubasi passed away last week and will be buried today.
In a statement to ZANIS yesterday, SDA president Harrington Akambwa said Pastor Lubasi died on Friday, November 20, 2009.
Burial is expected to take place at Old Leopard Hill Cemetery after a funeral service at the Libala SDA church along Nationalist road starting at 09:00 hours.
SDA President Akombwa described the death of Pastor Lubasi as a great loss to the church adding that he will be missed by the SDA church in Zambia and abroad.
He said that the late Pastor was an effective and committed evangelist and great soldier of the gospel.
He has described late Pastor Lubasi as a highly sought after speaker who traveled around the country and abroad preaching the gospel and baptizing thousands of people thereby initiating them into Christianity.
The late SDA pastor was also presenter of the television programme Voice of Prophesy and a Communication and Music Director.
He also served as a minister in the SDA church for many years in various capacities including District Pastor and Central Conference Departmental Director.
Pastor Lubasi also served in the Youth, Chaplaincy, and Campus, and Evangelism Ministries. He succeeded the late SDA leader Pastor Corneluis Matandiko who died last year.
He is survived by a wife, Chitalu and one child.
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MHSRIP and condolensces to the wife and child.
God rest his soul
we shall greatly miss you Pastor Joe Lubasi,indeed,you were a soldier in the army of The Lord..May he bless your family and we pray that we shall carry on as Christians and never be discouraged..RIP..
Go well Joel, we are definitely following soon. none is here forever. you have run a good race. hope we all can do our part in the Lord’s vineyard before our time comes. I will greatly miss you. farewll, farewell.
may his soul rest in peace
Cornelius and Joe are both dead? Why? Why are we losing young people like this? Where is a Phinehas to stop this plague that is robing Zambia, whether through road traffic incidents, aggravated robbers, disease of incidence or coincidence, I command the rot to stop here and NOW in the mighty name of my Lord Yeshua, the Son of Adonai!
my condolonces, may his soul rest in eternal peace
Saint, I say Amen to your words. Too much deaths in Zambia. Witchcraft etc must be stopped in Jesus’ name.
go well my friend,go well my Pastor ,n’till we meet again ,,.on the other side,God be with u,.and us all,.,.,n’till then my friend,n’till then,,
The Seventh-Day Adventist church has lost yet again a commited servant of the Lord. I pray for his family and may God be with them.
may his soul rest in eternal peace’ surely he will be missed.
we shall greatly miss you bo lubasi . you were a great man . may God bless your family .
Why another pastor dies a year after Matandiko’s death? i smell a rat someone is behind the deaths!
Why are SDA TV presenters dying like this?
Painful loss at a time least expected. Will surely be missed.
A great friend has gone too early, meet you in the after life. Its a painful news to me and the church at large
Let us do our parts before it is too late. May the good Lord bless and protect the family.What a lose to the human race?
Young man see you later in Heaven
Pastor Joe Lubasi has answered the call of nature very fast. In the sense that after succeeding the late Matandiko one would have expected him to serve for another ten yrs or so. Anyway God knows when each one us will be called. MHSRIP
it is appointed unto man to die once, may God be with the bereaved family in this trying moment. Pastor Lusasi ran his race, it now remains for you and me. For the dead know nothing but the living know that they will die.
May his soul rest in peace.
“Precious in the Lord’s sight is the death of His saints.”but how are the mighty fallen in the Seventh Day Adventist Church? Nevertheless,my hope still remains firm in the Lord Jesus Christ because we will meet again on the other side.As for now Joe,rest in peace till we meet again!
I didn’t know about this, MHSRIP. this is really sad