The Challenge:
- 20+Million, often syncretistic, amaZioni people are curious about God’s Word, but often resistant to Christian influence, viewing most missionary efforts as “sheep stealing.”
- 17 ZEMA missionary families are able to interact productively with the amaZioni by appealing to their historical foundations, which are rooted in God’s Word.
Our Assets:
- ZEMA is a faith-based mission, and God provides for His work among the amaZioni.
- 60 Bible-trained African pastors are working with ZEMA missionaries.
- Together, ZEMA’s missionaries and African pastors administrate 87 Bible schools.
- 2700 church leaders are studying God’s Word at these Bible schools.
- ZEMA missionaries are sharing their lives with amaZioni in a variety of family support and discipling ministries in community and church life.
- ZEMA’s Trumpet of Zion radio programs are a Bible resource for amaZioni aired by Radio Pulpit.
- ZEMA missionaries partnering with BibleProject have translated, produced, and released 17 Scripture Series videos in Zulu.
- ZEMA’s Website and Google Account qualify ZEMA for $10K in Google Ads.
- A ZEMA board member with telecommunications experience is available to advise communications students interning with ZEMA.
- ZEMA personnel are enthusiastic about being part of God’s work among the amaZioni and desire to tell the story fully and efficiently as God provides.
- ZEMA interns raising support for ZEMA internships based overseas may raise up to $3000 above base costs to cover school costs for the following year.
Financial Outline of Costs that may be raised for ZEMA Internships
An Overseas Internship:
Not all Communications Internships must be carried out overseas. However, for some, the solicitation of data and media resources may require an overseas trip. For overseas internships, the following outline applies. The student must raise:
Trip fees/transportation: An amount that pays for an airline ticket/s to arrive at the internship location in Southern Africa.
- The daily rate is $50 /day. This amount covers
- Room & board
- Transportation in SA
- Translator's remuneration during presentation
- One night in a South African Game Reserve.
- Stipend: Up to $3000 to offset school costs for the following year, which might have been earned in a Stateside work opportunity.
Final amount to be raised by the overseas intern:
- Minimum: An amount to pay for trip fees and daily rate (#1&2 Above).
- Maximum: An amount to pay for trip fees, daily rate plus additional funds attributed to the Stipend amount. (#1-3 Above).
Final amount to be raised by the US-based intern:
- Minimum: Nothing. This intern will have access to ZEMA's already established marketing resources, such as Canva, Divi, and Marky. ZEMA's Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram accounts, and ZEMA's marketing email.
- Maximum: An amount to pay for:
- The cost of other desired marketing resources not already available through ZEMA.
- Up to help $1500 to offset school costs for the following year.
Whether your gifts are in writing, photography, videography—or a combination—we invite you to use them to help tell the story of God’s work through this ministry. Talk with a ZEMA Representative about how God might be leading you to help ZEMA share this story.
About Zion Evangelical Ministries of Africa
Zion Evangelical Ministries of Africa is a mission with a long history, but a fresh outlook and approach to ministry. ZEMA is not planting new or Western churches. Rather, ZEMA ministries focus on evangelizing and discipling often syncretistic church leaders. ZEMA focuses on sharing the Gospel and God's Word with self-proclaimed pastors who often have no Biblical training. We seek to equip these leaders to bring Biblical truth into the African context. The amaZioni are 80% of the African Indigenous Church movement. The 6,000+ denominations range in size from 50 to 10,000 congregants. Working with the amaZioni, we are together becoming mature disciples of Jesus Christ, serving Him as He grows His kingdom in Southern Africa.
Though most often syncretistic, the amaZioni are open to studying the Word of God through ZEMA’s ministries because ZEMA shares a history and can affirm the church context without compromising Biblical beliefs. The amaZioni want to study God’s Word! With this as our foundation, ZEMA missionaries affirm what it is to be both African and Christian in the local context.
An overview of ZEMA Ministries is available on our website’s “ZEMA Work” tab (zema.org). On the website, particular pages of interest, including videos, may be:
