Men’s Fellowship Group

The Men’s Fellowship is another men’s group besides MCU. Its membership if free to any willing man. The  organization has branches  in Harare and  Bulawayo.  Harare East membership is drawn from Trinity Circuit, Greendale Circuit, Mount Pleasant Circuit (i.e.  All Souls Guilds)  and Borrowdale Methodist Church.  In Bulawayo East, the membership is drawn from Main Street and Northend Societies. Men’s Fellowship  is structured into four working commissions: pastoral and evangelism, economics and business development commission, projects commission and social responsibility and entertainment commission and it is mandatory that each Men or Member belongs to a particular commission.  The M F G meet once a week and are led in rotation by one of the four Commissions.

The vision of the group is to have a fellowship of all adult men in the church, whose qualification is simply believer and member of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe.  The mission is: to create the fellowship at every society with the main objective of meeting regularly to discuss and build each other spiritually, to focus on the bible study and understanding it, to apply bible teachings in men’s lives, through groups application, i.e. giving, projects and leading in revivals , to have a forum which men can share family life and responsibilities and to create a fellowship forum in all aspects, including social, sport, prayer, economic awareness and charity among others.

There are numerous activities, projects and programmes undertaken by the group.  So far they have bought and donated a car to the Evangelism Ministry of the Church, they are involved in various fundraising projects in support for the Church work in different centers i.e. Matthew Rusike Children’s  Home, United Theological College where they donated bicycles for some Ministers in rural areas.  They also built and helped to build churches in Glendale, Nzvimbo, Gwindi and Kahari. They also assisted in building a Manse in Domboshawa Section, sunk boreholes at Greendale Church and Matthew Rusike Children’s Home.  In education, they are constructing a classroom block at Muzavazi Methodist High School in Mhondoro.  Besides, the fellowship is securing materials, clothing, shoes and books for the marginalized groups.  They are raising food stuff and provisions for the retired Ministers and their widows.  In Borrowdale, men are leading in the construction of a multi-million dollar Church Community Centre at the value of Three million dollars which is the largest in the  history of M. C. Z.  In a number of ways, they have secured clothing, books and materials through Non-Governmental Organizations for distribution to the marginalized communities and active in the adoption support and payment of tuition fees for the Ministers in training at United Theological College