TACC Women's Movement
The beginning...
THE PRIDE OF THE BLUE TRAIN Mother’s movement in Zimbabwe was born in the same year TACC’s footprints were marked in the country. However, the very first Mother’s prayer meeting was held in 1994 where the first group of Senior Testifying Sisters was conferred with the Blue Train uniform at Mucheke Hall in Masvingo. The late Mother Chief Apostle Phakathi presided over the prayer meeting and donned sisters with the church uniform. On that particular occasion, Ma Phakathi was accompanied by an entourage of seven buses full of senior testifying sisters as well as Junior Testifying Sisters from South Africa. This was done after a good seven years after the church had seeded its roots in Zimbabwe. After the first mothers’ prayer meeting, sisters from Zimbabwe travelled to KwaNdebele in Pretoria in 1996 for a similar occasion. Zimbabwean mothers were accompanied by the late Overseer Herbert Matondo, who then was a priest. In August 1999, Ma Chief Apostle Nongqunga came to Kwekwe for a mother’s prayer meeting held at Mbizo Hall.
On 7 January 2000 another group of Zimbabwean sisters went to Swaziland for a mother’s prayer meeting that was being held at Mbabane Hall. Unfortunately for them due to the delays at the Zimbabwe and South African border post, the sisters got to Swaziland a few minutes before the service was closed. “Ma Nongqunga welcomed us and bade us farewell with love nonetheless,” recalls Ma Overseer Matondo. In 2001, Zimbabwean sisters attended a mother’s prayer meeting which was being held at Port Shepstone, 72km from Umgababa. In attendance were the then Overseers Mhlanga and Masiiwa. In October 2003 at Mucheke Stadium, three Apostles were born – Apostles Chingombe, Chingwe and Mhlanga. Thereafter, whenever mothers would hold their prayer meetings, the local resident mother Apostles would preside over the meetings, unlike previously when mother Apostles would be sent from South Africa especially to clothe sisters with Blue Train uniform. Apostle Chingwe has been appointed to oversee Mothers meetings in Zimbabwe.
Currently, 2 national services are held every year in Zimbabwe, one regional service and one sub-regional service
The Leadership
Mother Apostles
Mother District Apostle Chingombe
Mother Apostle Mashonga
Mother Apostle Chingwe
National Executive Committee
Recently, a new National Executive Committee for Women’s movement was appointed, being led by Mother Overseer Matyavira as the Chairperson, Mother Overseer Tope as the Secretary and mother Overseer Mangoya as the Treasurer. There are also vices and committee members.
The committee has been working tirelessly to make sure that all programmes under the Mothers’ Movement are successful- that is the Senior Evangelical Sisters, Evangelical Sisters, Junior Testifying Sisters, Uniforms Committee, Funerals Committee and Wedding Matrons.
All uniforms are available on the online store as well as the church office in Masvingo.
Latest projects
A new project was introduced initially by the Region 2 mothers movement executive and adopted as a national project by the NEC mothers and Mother Apostles. Its Mission is To ensure underprivileged young girls get all essential items that they need, that guardians usually overlook or cannot afford, and to provide care and protection for young girls in the church and beyond through sustainable socio-economic trainings, parent education, careers & enterprise development education and advocacy/ activism.
The Vision of this initiative is a world where a girl child is fully supported, protected and valued for the betterment of the church and the world at large for they are the future mothers, achieved through careers development, trainings, empowerment programs and provision of material necessities.
Evangelism work
The Mothers’ movement has recently launched an evangelism program led by Mother Overseers and Subdeacons. This program has seen a good number of people accepting the word of the Apostles and receiving the Holy Spirit.
Initially, the work was done in Domboshava, Uzumba and Beatrice and the program is currently going on, with the vision of reaching every corner of the country.