FDD President Edith Nawakwi says women in the church being the gate keepers of the country should use their influence to change society for the better.
Ms. Nawakwi who was the Guest of Honor at the 2015 United Church of Zambia Lusaka Presbytery Women’s Christian Fellowship Annual Conference last Sunday, urged the women to be mothers not only to their own children but to orphans and other children in need as well as society at large.
“Being a Christian should not only be about congregating at church on Sunday and it ends there, it should be about improving society and making communities we come from better. It should be about being a mother to that child sleeping on the streets, the child who has no mother, to the child that has no food, I think that is the mission of the WCF,” Ms. Nawakwi noted.
She challenged the women in the Church to take up the responsibility of looking after those in need of assistance as opposed turning a blind eye to the challenges of others.
“Most of us only become Christians on Sundays but we have no compassion in the communities we come from, you see your friends child being defiled and you turn a blind eye saying she is not my child that is not being a Christian. I believe that if the women in the Church can raise up and become the gate keepers of the neighbor’s child we will have a better society.”
She also appealed for women’s support saying “I too am a Naomi (of the Bible), I need friends and I need those friends to take me to the end, I need your support because without your support am a no body.”
And United Church of Zambia Lusaka Presbytery Bishop Mwape Chomba called on women in the country to use their influence to fight the scourge of corruption and other bad social vices that has gripped the country.
He observed that men can boast of being the heads of the households but that women are more influential hence the need for them use their influence positively.
“You (women) can change Zambia and it can become a corruption free country. We have lived in bitterness for too long and women should stand up and break those ancient walls of bitterness. We don’t want to become another Rwanda because of tribalism and God did not create Tongas, Bembas, Lozis, Tumbukas but He just created us as one and I always wonder where this issue of tribe comes from,” Bishop Chomba said.
The conference was attended by more than 800 women from the UCZ Church and over 400 women were bloused.
FDD President Edith Nawakwi receives flowers from Bishop Chomba at Kasama in Kafue.
Edith you are one typical example of a Sunday Christian because your mouth is busy insulting others the entire week. That’s not being woman Edith can you change also.
Thank you Sponge Bob. Her mouth is full of rubbish. Always negative. She is so bitter that she was beaten by a
man who came on the scene just a few months before the elections.
She needs to ton down a bit. I am surprised that the church invited her to be guest of honour. I hope they advised her
accordingly.
UZILESS
Nawakwi, women will make a difference in this country when they start respecting themselves! Not grabbing other women’s husbands and calling them our own! As long as these issues are there educated decent ones will never follow the likes of you. And your influence will not prevail among the women folk of this country. Because of your man women won’t vote for you! As a man I have heard your fello women say they would never vote for you because ulapokolola abalume!