Next In Line

“You can get a lot done if you don’t care who gets the credit.”
Dr. Ralph D. Winter

“Never do anything others can do or will do,
when there are things to be done that others can’t do or won’t”
– Dawson Trotman

They started out as ordinary men, born in ordinary places, by ordinary people, doing ordinary things in their secular localities but stepped out to become what they were. They changed paradigms, restructured order and brought to light what was in tick stratum of darkness.

Many of them will forever remain unknown and for that reason we will be greatly surprise at those who will be wearing the most lit crowns in heaven as we cross over to eternity. We will discover people we never knew, no book recorded them, their places of birth were unknown, for some their time of birth was not even known. Their parents were unpopular but these were behind the greatest moves in all of human history. No writer’s ink was split in writing their names on earth but heavens golden pen took notice. No biographer thought them worth writing, no one thought them worth reading but heaven’s gate opens for them as they heard “welcome thou good and faithful servant, welcome into the joy of thy Lord”.

Some were greatly misunderstood, their passion was mistaken for pride and arrogance, their zeal was misinterpreted for rapacious and an act of variance. They wallowed through the thick and thin, that the name of their loving Lord, the Saviour who loved them so may be known in the lands he was not known.

In this short article, I will briefly share some biography of missionaries who set the pace in their lifetime and we are the NEXT IN LINE.

Every paragraph will torchlight on the life of a particular missionary. As you read through, you will hear the voice of some calling you over, “I was not as educated as you are…  I was as educated as you are… I didn’t have so much financial blessings… I was so blessed financially still I gave in all… I invested all… I had no children to give up…  I had to surrender my only child who may have been martyred in the field… I raised other sons and daughters for the work… You will find yourself in the same shoes of men and women, young and old with all the limitations of humanness. It was said about Elijah that “he was a man subject to like passions as we are he prayed and shaped destiny of Israel through his praying” . He brought about a national revival in the land.

He was born Mamiyeri Mitseka Gwambe in Inhambane , Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique) and raised in a traditional fashion. As a boy, he did some work in a store run by a Portuguese trader, and learned some Portuguese. Also, he campaigned against drunkenness, and tribal practices including the killing of twin babies and the harsh treatment (including killing) of individuals accused of sorcery.