“In Zimbabwe, names carry meaning,” said Method Moyo.
“My father told me that, when I was born, the family was going through tough times. They were in financial crisis. My dad wasn’t working. They needed a way to get out of the situation — a plan, a method. So, to them, I was the method.”
Though he grew up in poverty, Moyo discovered a method to pursue a passion he harbored from age 8 — studying God’s Word. He enrolled in NationsUniversity, an online school associated with Churches of Christ that offers free education in theology and ministry.
“Within six years, he had finished his fourth degree at the university,” said John Baxter, the university’s president. “He has taken all 85 courses the university has to offer.”
Most recently, Moyo completed a Master of Divinity degree in 2021. He also has trained through Bear Valley Bible Institute International.
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Moyo, 32, preaches for a Church of Christ in Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, Bulawayo. He and five other ministers there have launched a church-planting effort in rural areas, though funds for transportation and food are a challenge, he said.
Last year, Moyo took on a pastoral role at Cure Children’s Hospital of Zimbabwe, a ministry of Cure International. The hospital serves children with disabilities.
“Africa has, for a long time, considered disability as a bad thing … something that comes as a result of an ancestral curse, witchcraft or some wrongdoing in the family,” Moyo said. “It is unfortunate that many Christians continue to hold on to this belief — to the extent that they believe that people with disabilities have spirits working in them. This belief has hindered the inclusion of people with disabilities in the church.”
As part of his ministry, Moyo conducts “Theology of Disability” seminars to help church leaders turn their congregations into “communities of belonging.” The seminars dispel myths about disabilities, using lessons from Jesus’ encounters with the disabled, and suggest methods of greater inclusion for all people. More than 300 church leaders have completed the program.
“We all bear the image of God,” Moyo said. “That is not determined by what one can or cannot do.”
He’s thankful for the emphasis NationsUniversity instructors place on the Great Commission — a mandate “to go out there and change my world,” he said.
His family name, Moyo, means “heart,” he said.
As for the name his father gave him, Method, “I consider myself a person who provides a way.”
This story originally appeared in The Christian Chronicle and has been reprinted with permission.
Erik Tryggestad is president and CEO of The Christian Chronicle. He has filed stories for the Chronicle from more than 65 nations.
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How very encouraging to hear what the Lord is doing through brother Method to care for His precious ones in Zimbabwe! While I treasure The Roys Report for its relentless and sacrificial exposure of the deeds of darkness in the church, and its faithful reporting with integrity and clarity that helps the church identify wolves in its midst, oh how peace, awe and joy are shed abroad in my heart when I hear these stories too of brothers and sisters serving the Lord with joy and gladness. They are incarnating our incarnate Savior and King Jesus.
So thank you TRR for reporting stories of faith and practice like these, which fuel my affection for Christ and build my faith that God is at work and light is shining in the darkness and the darkness does not overpower it.
I love it when I read stories like this.
Agreed. There are so many real Christians doing good in the world and the articles here depress and discourage me. I’ve been at Christian schools where my daughter was bullied, the teachers had affairs with eachother, lied…churches where pastors resigned and opened a bar, told security to leave BLM rioters alone when intimidating others, held up the Bible and said the Quran was the same thing, gave weekly sermons on high fructose corn syrup to heavy people in the front row and Bible studies were used by young married men to get girlfriends and more. Tell us the good things about real believers.