Pastor Francis Munkombwe

Eben Ezer Bible College, Hwange, Zimbabwe

The friendship and partnership of JL and Francis dates back to his time in Bible College in Harare between 1986 - 1988. Through the recommendation of his spiritual father and overseer, Pastor Simon Mkolo, JL sponsored him to the Pentecostal Bible College (PBC), along with several other of Pastor Simon's key young leaders. After graduation from PBC, Francis continued to evangelize and plant churches under Pastor Mkolo. Because of his concern to give other young pastors and leaders further Biblical training, he founded the Eben-Ezer Bible College (EBC) in Hwange, in 1995.

For the first several years they met in local churches and school buildings.  Then JL helped raise the funds to build their first two classroom blocks.  Now his partners are helping fund 6 Teacher and 6 Student Rondovals.  He has also helped start a large garden project next to the Bible College where the students can help raise their own food.  It is the only Bible College in this part of Zimbabwe—which is one of the poorest, hottest and least evangelized.  Their current limit is between 25 - 30 students per year—which JL hopes to increase in the years ahead as their facilities increase.  They have already graduated scores of pastors and church leaders who are planting churches in the remote “Africa Bush.”