By Wallace Mawire
ZAOGA Forward ln Faith Faith Ministries diaspora mission community from other international countries graced the Harare central big Sunday gathering service hosted at the City Sports Convention center on 12 May, 2025 as a culmination of the church’s 65th anniversary celebrations.
The celebrations were graced by hundreds of local ZAOGA church congregate, especially from Harare to participate in a service presided over by Archbishop Eunor Guti, the later widow of Archbishop Ezekiel Guti, ZAOGA FIF Ministries Founding Father.
Archbishop Dr Eunor Guti urged congregates to embrace values of godliness, peace and love which have been the longstanding foundational ethos espoused by the late Archbishop Ezekiel Guti.
The anniversary celebrations have been on-going during the past week in several branches of the ZAOGA ministries, in at least 174 countries. Archbishop Dr Eunor Guti said the church missions are present in six continents with at least 172 churches.
Some of the countries in which the church ministries are present include New Zealand, Australia, the United States of America, Madagascar, China and Chad, just to mention a few.
A ZAOGA church elder from Australia who was at the Sunday anniversary celebrations said the church mission in that country started in 1997 and has grown up to have at least 2000 members now.
Elder Jaricha said the ZAOGA church started in a place called Tuwumba in Australia with the main center in Sydney.
The elder said they now have three centres which have been built in Australia. He said the church has grown to accommodate other neighbouring lslands around Australia like Fiji, Tonga and Upper New Guinea.
He said the church seed is vastly growing in Australia and touching many lives. Some of the initiatives being carried out in the country include youth programmes to get young people off drugs. They also have hospital outreach programmes to reach out and support the sick.
Elder Jaricha said some of the initiatives in Australia have helped church members to form companies and form businesses.
He said that also the church has reached out and embraced members of the indigenous communities in Australia.
He said the church is now present in every city of Australia, with full time pastors to spread the gospel in that country.Elder Jaricha said some of the pastors from Australia have come to Zimbabwe working in Bible school programmes.
Some of the impacts of the programmes in Australia include supporting education and helping to build up lives and families.
Another diaspora church member, Pastor Parfait Rakotomalala from Madagascar who visited the Zimbabwe anniversary celebrations big Sunday gathering accompanied by his wife said ZAOGA church started in 2010 in Madagascar and has grown to accommodate at least 350 members. Rakotomalala said the church is growing in that country and has moved to two cities, one in the South of Madagascar and the other in the capital city of Antananarivo.
He said the church has helped to improve lives and uplift the poor.
Archbishop Dr Eunor Guti encouraged church members to embrace values of peace and love which were preached by the late Archbishop Ezekiel Guti.
She said the late Archbishop Ezekiel Guti promoted entrepreneurship and education to support people’s lives.
