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“I salute you all in the name of the Lord, and I encourage you and the whole of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe to keep the faith and to stay the exemplary course you have chosen as disciples of the Lord,” said Pillay. “Trusting in the steadfast love of God, as manifest in the life and death and resurrection of Jesus, is the taproot of personal faith but also of all the church’s efforts to better the human condition, promote human dignity, and ensure human rights.”
Pillay commended the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe for championing social justice and human rights. “This is God’s work through our hands,” said Pillay. “The example of our engaged discipleship is the best form of mission, but also the wellspring of transforming the world more nearly into the realm of God.”
He also commended the church’s collaborative and concrete commitment to the Pilgrimage of Justice, Reconciliation, and Unity.
“So as you gather today at the conference to study the Word, to worship God, and to greet friends old and new in fellowship, and as you deliberate prayerfully over the selection of your new leaders and envision new vistas for the church, I join our prayers to yours, knowing that your trust in God will be rewarded with God’s accompaniment and presence among you and in your faith-inspired service to the world,” Pillay concluded.
