love evangelical church

LOVE EVANGELICAL
CHURCH
Salomon Valaka
A NEW BIBLICAL CHURCH IS
ABOUT TO BE BORN
AN OBLIGATION TO INFORM, THE FREEDOM TO WRITE.
In a room at ¾ empty at Baptist Association
Resource Center on 4105 Poole Road in
Raleigh; emptiness due in part of the wrong
time chosen by the organizer of the «Agape
Gospel Day in the framework to plant a new
biblical church in Raleigh area» himself, the
Reverend Pastor Aimé Ebenezer Kidimbu
delivered his vision. It's a vision rooted in his
belief which is to add, yet another, new
congregation, or to be precisely correct, a new
biblical church into a community already
saturated with multiple and various churches
according to many among the Congolese
community immigrants.
Pastor Aimé E. Kidimbu and wife
Hélène Lumfuankenda
Graduation - May 19, 2012
We just wished that, in launching the
greatest endeavor of his life, Pastor Aimé E.
Kidimbu, one of the leading Men of God in
our community has benefited the support of
his pairs. Instead, the majority of the Pastors
were absent. No one can blame them knowing
that the majority of the Sunday Services in our
community are held exactly between 2:00 pm
to 4/5 pm, the same time frame they were
supposed to shows up in support of their
colleague.
So, before a very limited number of close
friends, very few members of the community
who took time to be present and with the
commitment of the always present, always
supportive, always loving Pastor Richard Paku
Bambi M'Vungi, who knows nothing else but
"Love thy neighbor", Pastor Aimé Ebenezer
Kidimbu delivered his vision and dream. It's a
vision to implant a "LOVING" church into
our community and a dream to implant a
church that will fully use the only official
language of the county home: English.
In explaining the meaning of the event,
Pastor A. Kidimbu was clearer: «The message
the Lord has given to me is one of LOVE.
Love thyself first, love thy God, love thy
neighbor, love toward thy family, love thy
community, love thy country and love the
country that has welcomed us. This is the
Lord's message to me rooted in 1 John 4:20 : "
If someone says, -I love God- and hates his brother, he
is a liar, for he who does not love his brother whom he
has seen, how can he love God whom he has not
seen?"» This is why also, according to him, the
new church will be called "Love Evangelical
Church.
For the record, this is not the first time Pastor
Aimé has attempted the framework to plant a
new biblical church in Raleigh area. The young
Pastor who settled in Raleigh on December 2,
2001, came directly from the Republic of
Gabon. He had, at the time, a B.S degree in
information systems management in addition
to graduating in Pastoral Theology in Gabon.
The always present, always supportive, always loving Pastor
Richard Paku Bambi M'Vungi,
Later on, he joined the Eglise Chrétienne de
Raleigh and worked hand in hand with the
Reverend Dido Kitete Ntontolo. For multiple
reasons, he left that church and on October 19,
2003, the community learned the birth of his
new church: «The Day of the Lord». It was a mere
three months experience before The Day of the
Lord closed its doors. Indefinitely!
So the question we asked our Reverend
yesterday was simple:
* You have attempted in the past to implant a new
biblical church into our community. You miserably
failed. What makes you believe that you will be
successful this time around?
«When one move from a missionary field to
another, a lot of things can happen and the
experience or realities on the field are also
different. Even though people called my first
experience in gathering some Christians into an
organized biblical church, to me, The Day of
the Lord was instead a simple Ministry.
«This time, we are planting a full fledged,
biblical church with all its tenets and ministries:
Men, Ladies, Youth, Sunday School and so
on... We are putting on the field a church with
multiple pastors who will be put in charge of
those different ministries. »
* Are you inviting Congolese pastors into your new
experience?
Any pastor who is willing to work with us is
encouraged to do so, no matter his or her
origins or nationality. Going to the Seminary
has helped me to understand realities of my
new environment, which I did not understood
when I first came in here.
The African experience is an asset, which I
want to combine with the American
experience. The African asset is foremost
spiritual. Africans in general knows how to pray
spiritually while we are very poor in
management and administration, a field that
sustain American churches. I want to take
advantage of both...»
Then we lashed the hot question that is in
everyone mind.
* Our community is already saturated with so many
churches. The last thing Congolese people want to hear
actually is the birth yet of another church, a leading
process in dividing the community. Having that into your
mind, do you think the community is ready with another,
new congregation?
«That is exactly my point. We can assemble our
people, including our American born children
and the youth and all of us who happen to
choose this land into a united community. But
we will never be able to plant a church that will
contain a full community. Now I understand
that God has loved us to be missionaries into
this land. But I don't see myself to be a
Congolese missionary called to administer only
to Congolese immigrants. I want to use English
to spread God's message to my people and
beyond.
We have children who are born here. This is
their community, this is their village and this is
their country. We are doing them a disservice if
we keep our focus on spreading our native
languages. I know that I will have a hybrid
liturgy by choosing English. I will take
advantage of both African and American
liturgies. The African liturgy is one of songs
that translate in better praising and worshiping
the Lord, while the English, which is the
language used at work, in schools will be the
official tool in delivering and spreading our
message. It will help our members to extend
their horizons as well. »
The proliferation of churches into our
community is a big issue. Many community
members don't hide their discontent to the
point of accusing pastors to be the source of
the disintegration of the community. So, we
asked some of the pastors and community
members presents, most of them came late but
who happened to be present at the Agape
Gospel Day the same question to which Pastor
Aimé E. Kidimbu has just responded.
* Our community is already saturated with so many
churches. The last thing Congolese people want to hear
actually is the birth yet of another church, a leading
process in dividing the community. Having that into
your mind, do you think the community is ready with
another, new congregation?
This is what they have to say:
* Pastor Richard Paku
Yes! You just hear him say that he want
to put an emphasis by using the English
language. As for today, our children are
not really committed in our churches
partly because of the language barrier.
If we miss them at the young age, our
churches will never have any replacement.
They will become empty sanctuaries 12,
15 years from now.
* Odette Luyindu
Yes! Our children are not benefitting
from the local Congolese churches. They
are not interested. Parents are deciding in
their place by taking them to churches
from which they learn nothing.
This is the reason why my family and I
have decided to attend English speaking
church...just for the sake of our children
future spiritual life.
* Médard Kimpioka Singa
No! No! No! We have already enough
churches into our community. I don't not
believe that this coming new church will
impact our community or bring
something new we don't already have.
Therefore, I don't see any reason to add
one more church into our community.
* Nzinga Papy Sukidi
No! Biblically speaking, Jesus said in
Matthew 9:37-38 that "The harvest truly is
plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore, pray
the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into
His harvest." In others words, we do have
enough churches, what we don't have is
Love Evangelical Church
A new church planting for all peoples
6339 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh NC 27612
Room 208
at
Providence Baptist Church
Aime Kidimbu (Eben-Ezer)
Pastor
919-696-0806
[email protected]
is pastors who are willing to work together.
Our "Men of God" must show us love by
giving us an example of love.
They must demonstrate that love by serving
together instead multiplying congregations, step
that is nothing else but a symbol of division in
our community. There is no success without
working together. The proof is here. Where are
they? I want Pastor to interpret to me those
words of Christ in Matthew 9:37-38.
* Pastor JG. Mwamba
It's difficult to me to respond to that question.
All depend of what the calling was, or the
vision. What one may experience is not what
God told another in the vision. God is calling
us to do His work and has done so differently.
Pastor Aimé E. Kidimbu insists: Love will be
the center of his message. Love is the vision of
the church. In addressing himself to the people
present, he told them to be his partners. «You
may not be members of the church, but a group of friends
who are willing to help us by sharing the good news. Tell
friends, neighbors at school, at work that a new church is
about to open its doors. »
Actually, the group is meeting on Wednesdays
from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Providence Baptist
church on Glenwood Avenue. This is a prayer
session for Leadership Training. An official
opening Service will be held in days to come.
Everyone will be invited «as it is written in the
book of the words of Isaiah, the prophet saying: The
voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of
the Lord, make his paths straight. » (Luke 3:4")
Still counting
Our love for the community always dictates
that we keep records of the important events
taking place in our "home". Yes, to most of us,
Raleigh and its suburbs is simply home. So, one
of those events is to keep counting the number
of pastors residing and churches operating into
our communities.
Here are the numbers at this present time:
Pastors
1. Caleb Buna
2. Kamwabo, Jean-Pierre Katembwe
3. Kande, Steve
4. Kidimbu, Aimé-Eben-Ezer
5. Ngudi, Yumbu
6. Nkebi Soki, Patrice
7. Paku, Richard M'Vungi
8. Ozana, Pierre Bianany
9. Elie Masiala Lutete
10. Tshibambi, José
11. Zacharie Divonda Ngemba
12. Banda Banda Di Mamoso
13. Mwamba, J.G
14. Yves Malalla
15. Jules Dibanza
16. Serge Nkanka Kayumba
17 Adrien Baronse (Combat Spitituel)
18. Pasteur Sasa
19. Pasteur Nehemie
20. Pasteur Jeremias
21. Pasteur Luta
22. Pasteur Kabongo
23. Pasteur Jack Bolingo
24. Pasteur Kapinga Marithe
25. Pastor Ngoma Masiala
26.Tiya Manzodulua
27.Jean Pierre Kamba
28.Eugene Diomi
29. Dou Jose
Churches
1. United African Baptist Church:
Pastor Ngoma Masiala
2. Alliance Community Church:
Pastor J.-P. Kamwabo
3. Raleigh Evangelical International
Church of the Nazarene:
Pastor Caleb Buna
5. Reconciliation Church:
Past. Steve Kande
6. First Born Church of Christ:
Past. José Tshibambi
7. CEAC Ministry (?)
8. Le Vrai Cep (The True Vine):
Pastor Patrice Nkebi
9. International French Living Word
Family Church (IFLWFC):
Pastor Pierre Ozana
10. Ministère du Combat Spirituel :
Brother Adrien Baronse
11. Eagles’ Nest French Ministries :(?)
12. Eglise Catholique Francophone
(Monthly meeting0
13 Victory Church:
Jules Dibanza
Pastor Aime is a graduate
from Southeastern Baptist Theological
Seminary. He has a lot of experience in
American and African Christianity.
He is a man of faith and prayer and
believes in the transforming power of the
Gospel of Christ that brings people into
repentance and eternal salvation.
He wants you (Young or Adult) to come
to participate in this event where he will
be laying out the vision God has
given him. You may be interested in
working with him in this church to
propagate the Gospel of Christ in the
USA.
“People don't light a lamp and put
it under a basket but on a lamp
stand, and it gives light to everyone
in the house.” Matthew 5:15
(Pastor Aimé)
With a total of almost 800 immigrants in our
community, the actual ratio will be 32 lost
souls for a total of 25 pastors.
Thirteen churches will share at least 62
members, all speaking the common language
and expressing the same Faith. Thus the
question: can we just get along and have at
least two strong churches?
Salomon Valaka
January 21st, 2013
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Graduation - May 19, 2012