About LBC Lusaka Baptist Church is a Reformed Baptist Church founded in 1960. We are located on Lubu Road, in Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, Southern Africa and we celebrated our 50th anniversary in July 2010. LBC is a reformed fellowship emphasizing the worship of the Triune God through prayer and the consistent, in-depth proclamation of His truth from the Holy Scriptures (holding to the 1689 London Baptist Confession).

The church itself includes members from all walks of life, and diverse ethnic and national origins. It’s difficult to summarize the culture and essence of a church, but you can learn more about us by reading through what we believe, our history, and our ministries. Pastor Ronald
Kalifungwa What We Believe History of LBC

History of LBC

During 1956, while the idea of a Baptist fellowship was taking shape, the President of the Baptist Union of South Africa, Rev R. H Philpot, was passing through Lusaka en route to the Copperbelt province. He was happy to formally set apart the four adults and two baby girls in the presence of the Lord, to form the Lusaka Baptist Church Fellowship. This small body of God’s people did not carry on for long, however, because Charles Kidwell had to relocate to Ndola to take up a new job, and while there, he forged links with Ndola Baptist Church.

In God’s mysterious providence, after a year of being in Ndola, Charles decided to move back to Lusaka to rejoin Duly & Co. Ltd . This gave new impetus to the idea of reviving the Lusaka Baptist Church Fellowship. Soon on arrival in Lusaka, Kidwell contacted more Baptists in the City, and they commenced a midweek fellowship meeting which was held in the Kidwell’s spacious lounge. Sunday services were held in the Gilbert Reiny School ( Lusaka Boys school) hall.

The fellowship decided to ask Ndola Baptist Church to provide some oversight. With LBC established in Lusaka, it was not uncommon for believers who were relocating to Lusaka, from elsewhere in Zambia and indeed the world, to make LBC their home. During the year 1958, the Lusaka Baptist Fellowship grew sufficiently to invite Derek Harris and his wife Barbara to be their first pastoral couple; which invitation they accepted. Derek’s ministry at Lusaka Baptist Church was an exciting one as the work grew with a number of baptisms. From a beginning of 15 people who met in a school hall, the number grew to a membership of 50, meeting in their own church hall. On July 2nd, 1960, forty two of these persons covenanted together to form the Lusaka Baptist Church.
The first services were held in the Lusaka Boy’s School, Rennie Road, Lusaka, in April, 1958.

The Church was formed on July 2nd, 1960, with 42 persons as foundation members, (40 of these transferring from the Mother Church of Ndola, viz: Ndola Baptist Church, and 2 from the Central Baptist Church, Salisbury).

We Believe

In the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments

In the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in their original autographs as fully inspired of God and inerrant and accept them as the supreme and final authority for faith and life.

That man was created in the image of God

That man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death which is separation from God and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and are guilty before God.

That the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins

That the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, a substitutionary sacrifice, according to the Scriptures and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.

In the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ

In the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, His ascension into heaven and His present life as our High Priest and Advocate.

In the personal and imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

That all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again

That all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and are thereby made children of God.

In the bodily resurrection both of the just and unjust

In the bodily resurrection both of the just and unjust; the eternal blessedness of the redeemed in the presence of God, and the eternal damnation into hell of those who have rejected the offer of salvation.

That the one true church of our Lord Jesus Christ

That the one true church of our Lord Jesus Christ as distinguished from the state is the whole company of those who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit, that the local church on earth should take its character from the conception of the church spiritual and, therefore, that the new birth and confession of Christ are essential to church membership.

That the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances

That the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s supper, to be observed as acts of obedience and as perpetual witnesses to the cardinal facts of the Christian faith. That baptism is the immersion of the believer in water as a confession of identification with Christ in burial and resurrection and that the Lord’s Supper is the partaking of bread and wine symbolizing the Savior’s body and blood in remembrance of His sacrificial death until He comes again.

In the priesthood of all believers.

In the indwelling and work of the Holy Spiri

In the indwelling and work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer and in the church.

The Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689

The Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 as the document which explains in detail the things most surely believed amongst us.

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