From The Chairpersons Desk

1.0 Introduction
1.1 It is my pleasure to present to you this report ,please note that from Jan-March was not much activity save our meeting in January, conference preparations and visits to districts by the NYEC.

2.0 Youth Statistics&Programmes
2.1 Youths members of the UBCYF todate, statistically, are around 4 000.

In January we managed to hold a meeting with districts(delegates) from 10 districts namely Mhakwe, Rusitu, Chipinge, Marondera, Harare North, Harare South, Mutare, Save , Chimanimani and Ndima. The meeting was mainly to talk about the Annual Youth Conference and related issues,at the meeting it was agreed that;
 We ask head Office that we start conference by our usual general assembly on Tuesday the 21st
 The Guest Speaker is Rev Zunga-he has agreed, them is from 2Kings 6&7
 The conference will be at MTC again this year
 The nominees for the post of Director be sent to Head Office-and ask them if they could appoint the Director by the conferences dates that will be great.
We managed to hold a Music Coaching Clinic for the districts that will compete at the conference Music Competitions.

 Plans
As NYEC members we wish to improve on visitations to the districts which we represent ,to encourage them to pursue and meet our key objectives on all the programmes that they do.
2.2 Our Objectives also shape our plans and activities as highlighted below;
We developed objectives in five (5) broad categories, namely: -
2.2.1 Evangelism – We intend to evangelise through Evangelism Crusades-we did one successfully at Bikita fashu Minerals in November-plans are that we do one in Chiredzi by year-end.
2.2.2 Fellowship – We sought to promote fellowship, first amongst ourselves and secondly with other groups that share similar bases of faith as we. We will start by inviting some other youths groups in our programmes-however the youths groups shld have the basis of faith similar to ours
2.2.3 Social Responsibility – Recognizing the importance of making an impact in the communities in which we exist, we sought to promote this responsibility amongst our members. Sadly though, this idea is still new to most of us thus we have taken a decision to have a full-scale launch of Social Responsibility at our forthcoming Annual Conference in April 2009 through cleaning the Sakubva rank
2.2.4 Financial Self-Reliance – Our youth group’s culture is characterized by struggling and dependency. We will keep encouraging our youths to work towards paying up our budgets
2.2.5 Spiritual Maturity – We think this is the most important of them all – local church Pastors, advisors, elders e.t.c. really need to help us there-youths need constant mentoring, all districts to be encouraged to hold youths revivals, conduct bible studies etc, this is very important
2.2.6 We are also planning to work closely with the Head Office -especially concerning our constitution-consulting them would help.

3.0 Requests
 That the youths levy be lowered for us-we are struggling to pay monthly-we shall pay something though, especially after the Youths Conference


In his service,



Misheck Kugodah Mlambo
Youth Chairman
United Baptist Church of Zimbabwe


18 Feb 2008