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LIFE CLUB
General Report
Some details are approximate and pre-covid

Mission
Farcet, 22nd April 2023
 LIFE CLUB
in a nutshell

• Christian Growth
• Leadership Training
• Personal Development
• Building Life Values
• Building Life Skills
The main foundational purposes of
Life Club are to assist the Church
in helping as many people as
possible to:
• Come to Jesus Christ. ‘Come, follow me’ Mk 1:17.
• Grow spiritually in love towards God and
neighbour. ‘Love the Lord your God … Love your
neighbour as yourself’ Mt. 22:37, 39.
• Go to help make new disciples. ‘Go and make
disciples’ Mt. 28:19.
• Become reliable and competent Church leaders
and teachers. ‘Pass on what you heard from me to
reliable leaders who are competent to teach others’
2 Tim. 2:2.
• ‘Worship God.’ Rev. 22:9.
Began: 25th Oct. 2003, Dr Tkach
Watford

U.K.
Ireland
12+ Clubs
Bradford
Life Clubs in Farcet
Holland

France
Early Years Later Years
 Angola

Oliveira Kitambala. Life Club in Luanda

 Bangladesh
Naomi Biswas BEA President. John Biswas died.
11 Elementary Schools, Some Churches
About 60 Gospel Workers/Volunteers
Assistant Nurse Programme, 500+ graduated
Goat Programme, over 2,000 recipients
Child Marriage Prevention Programme
Hope for sexually exploited girls
Distributed many Bibles
Bible College, about 290 graduated
 First Life Club in 2013.
Trying to restart it. Bengali Manual.
 Eugène
Sibomana
Burundi
Life Clubs: Bujumbura & Rugombo

GCI Burundi Conference Feb. 22

Rugombo Life Club/Service, Burundi
8th ‒ 9th Oct. 22
Can you spot four Life Club T-shirts!
Donations: Since 4th Dec. 21. £4,651.61p
 Cameroon
First Life Club in Yaoundé
26th of Nov. 22
Democratic Republic of
the Congo (DRC)
Kinshasa Conference
19th Feb. 23
Binza Congregation, DRC
Bukavu Life Club, DRC
Start Date: 15 Jan. 23
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Bukavu, DRC
Uvira Life Club, DRC
Start Date: 5th Feb. 23
 Mboko Life Club, DRC

Start Date: 25th March 23

 Lubumbashi
Life Club, DRC
Start Date: 9 April 23
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Justin Richard Tshibasu

 DRC
Currently Showing Interest in Life Club

Kawama
Kolwezi
Kalonge (may start 23rd April)
Lusenda (may start 23 April)
rd
 DRC and Burundi 12th March 23
An International Life Club meeting discussing
‘collaboration’, ‘exchange of experiences’,
‘capacity building’ and ‘future perspective’.
 Ghana
Life Clubs:
• Buduburam?
• Kutunse?
• New Ashongman?
• Kumasi?
• Lashibi

Theo Nii Okai

 Kenya
• Kibirichia
• Nairobi
Anthony Gachanja
Madagascar

Rigobert Rafiringason
• Antsirabe
• Andranomaletara
Madagascar
Fano & Andrea
Wedding: 28th April
Antsirabe Life Club, Madagascar
Tree Planting
Antsirabe
Life Club
Rubbish
Clearance
Malawi, Lilongwe Life Club
‘Life Club in Malawi is still marching on.’ Anthony Nyangula, 14/4/22
 Dzaleka, Malawi
Gardner Kunje Lilongwe
‘We are very thankful for Life Club. Our
youths had low self-confidence in groups
and speaking in public. With Life Club,
many of them are now able to speak in
public and now have much more
confidence in many things. Many youths
join us from different Churches so that they
can learn and become more confident like
the GCI youths.’
GCI in Dzaleka. Malawi. ‘628’ in congregation.
 Mozambique
Emmanuel Vasco and Caleb Makhela
 New Zealand
Pre-covid

Masterton Life Club

 Nigeria
1st African Life Club, Mbaise

22nd Oct. 2006

 Nigerian Life Club
A Life Club was held on 13th
August 22 during the annual
GCI Nigerian Convention. The Emmanuel Okai, GCI
Director was Emmanuel Okai. Director for West Africa
Ugbowo,
Nigeria

New Life Club

& Congregation
 Portugal

CLUBE DE VIDA
The Life Club manual is available in
Portuguese.
José Ribeiro has been very supportive.
Rwanda
Eugene
Munyampama

• GCI not registered in Rwanda

• We have some land
• Two small groups there
• Manual into Kinyarwanda language
 South Africa
Two Life Clubs pre-covid

South African won Best Speaker, 25th March

The Life Club
manual is now
available in
Spanish
Pedro Rufian has
been very supportive.
 Tanzania
Musoma Life Club, June 2022
Life Club Conference
Tanzania, 28th – 31st Dec. 2022
Shadrack Fabian Malugu
Uganda, Tororo
 UK: Paignton Life Club
7th October 22

Maureen Watson Doug Bass Jean Sole

‘Everyone knows that there are some
people round the world that don’t have
homes, clean water, food or money, but that
needs to change, so I am going to donate to
help. There are lots of things people can do
like running for charity, donate straight away
and you can too.’ Granddaughter, age 8
 Zambia
Chawama Life Club
11th Feb. 2023
 The Airport and Central
congregations hold a joint meeting
to start two new Life Clubs.

Zambia, 5th March 23

 Zimbabwe
Bulawayo, Brook North? Chitungwiza
Bulawayo Life Club, Zimbabwe
‘A very useful ministry for Christian development.’

Vuyo Mpofu
 Zimbabwe

Emmerson
Govha

GCI Tongogara Congregation

Refugee Camp, 15,000 people
 Other Countries

A few other countries have had Life

Clubs in the past or expressed
interest in Life Clubs in the future.
Nature Pictures Competition
If you would like to enter, send your photos, or
photos of your artwork to:
geoff@geoffsole.co.uk.

LIFE
in the
natural
world
 Nature
Pictures
Competition
LIFE in the
Natural World
1st
Peter Beardsmore

3rd Peter Gachanja 2nd Zoe Sole

Nature Pictures
Competition
Winner
Billy
Ndagano
Age 17
Bukavu
D.R. Congo

LIFE
in the
Natural
World
Sunsi Life Club, Tanzania
Nature Pictures Winners
 Life Club Manual
Languages
Bengali
English
French
Kinyarwanda (Rwanda, not finished)
Malagasy
Portuguese
Spanish
Swahili
International Life Club
Facebook Group

18 April: 594 members

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 Speeches to Articles

Abigail
Beautiful
and Wise
 

By Kalengule Kaoma
GCI Superintendent for Africa
Speech given on the 21st January 2023
‘Abigail skilfully used reconciliatory
words to defuse a volatile situation.
Her masterful speech is found in 1
Samuel 25:24-31. Abigail carefully
chooses her words and, of course,
so should we.’

‘Be gracious in your speech.’

Colossians 4:6 Message
 International Life Club
Zoom

About 100 reached each meeting.

About 20 countries have tuned in.
Many don’t have zoom / don’t speak English
The main foundational purposes of
Life Club are to assist the Church in
helping as many people as possible
to:
• Come to Jesus Christ.
• Grow spiritually in love towards
God and neighbour.
• Go to help make new disciples.
• Become reliable and competent
Church leaders and teachers.
• Worship God.
 Response:

David Livingstone:
Healthy Church is involved in
Mission
 Response:
Need: more supporters who are:
praying for
donating to
participating in
networking with
equipping and building up

LIFE CLUBS
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