DIASPORA DISCOURSE
With Davison Muropa
On Sunday when I woke up, I was pleasantly surprised when I found my home Church, Mabelreign Salvation Army was live on Facebook with a morning service. Ndatoteerera ndikato komborerwa chokwadi.
I think this is going to be the new normal. Although my own Birmingham Citadel is now open with little or no restrictions, I have not yet woken up from the slumber of the last year-and- a-half during which I have not physically gone to the Church hall. And somehow I am finding it difficult to shake off this feeling of lethargy. Sunday yangu yanga yatove nguva yekuti kubu hope!
So I thank Mabelreign and other Churches (including Birmingham) that are beaming online Sunday services.
Keep up the good work. Tiri tese pamweya. I was happy to see a number of my Mabelreign friends in their immaculate grey uniforrms with matching and not-so-matching masks. Zvanga zvakanaka.
I counted a congregation of about 50-60 which is encouraging considering the command control of the government bent on the church to do its bidding.
Now the church has a new normal to preach the vaccination gospel so people can attend church. Pakaoma.
I hope the congregations can start to increase as people get vaccinated.
Ndiyo yatove normal yacho.
(Davison Muropa is a Zimbabwean living in the UK. He is an Accountant by profession, song writer, researcher, blogger and historian.)
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