Dr. Agrippa Dube
February 12, 1952 September 1, 2013
Bulawayo,
Zimbabwe. Dr. Agrippa Dube, co-founder
of Impact Ministries International, Inc., Aiken, SC went to his heavenly reward
Sunday morning, September 1, 2013 due to complications of pneumonia.
Dr. Dube was
a long-time friend and ministry partner of Dr. W. Lynn and Ann Kirkland who
co-founded Impact Ministries International, Inc. in 2001. Dr. Dube was also the National Director of
Evangelism Explosion Zimbabwe and Regional Director of Leadership Southern
Africa. He was the Director of Bible
Training Centre for Pastors Zimbabwe, and former Regional Director of African
Leadership Southern Africa. Dr. Dube was
an ordained minister and a member of Mzilikhazi Methodist Church.
Dr. Dube
leaves behind his wife, Mainah, several sons and daughters, and a host of
orphans that he cared for.
Funeral
services were held at Mizilikhazi Methodist Church on Wednesday, September 3,
2013
Agrippa Dube is much, much more to us than a ministry
partner… Much, much more than a friend
to Ann and myself. Agrippa dube was, and
is, a part of our family. Our children
understand that. Friends and associates
understand that. We are grieving with
you in this time of loss.
With all of his accomplishments, achievements, title - and
even a Doctorate – Agrippa Dube would want to be remembered for the fact that
he loved Jesus. And, he wanted others –
worldwide – to know and love Jesus. He
had become a missionary from Zimbabwe to the United States. The churches in America that partnered with
him in his work in Zimbabwe are feeling and will continue to feel a great
loss. The reports that he gave each year encouraged them in furthering the Kingdom of
God. Not only has Zimbabwe lost a great
man but the world has also. It is just
not quite as nice of a place without Dr. Agrippa Dube!
Agrippa Dube loved his family – Mainah, his sons and
daughters, and especially his grandchildren.
Know that he was very, very proud of each of you. As you continue on in life you have very big
shoes to fill.
Agrippa also had an extended family. These are a family of orphans. Not only did he work to keep street kids in
school but to find homes for them. He
did this as he did many things, by example.
He cared for the orphan children of relatives as if they were his
own. Agrippa Dube will be missed by
hundreds of orphans that were “his kids”.
Agrippa Dube believed in education. Not only training thousands of pastors,
keeping street kids in school, pushing his own children and grandchildren to
get the best education they could, but he continued his own education achieving
a Doctor of Divinity degree this past June.
He believed better education was a way out of poverty for the people of
Zimbabwe and he practiced what he preached.
Since meeting Agrippa Dube in 1999 I have spent a lot of
wonderful times traveling with my brother.
We have laughed and cried together.
We often shared things with each other that we would not share with
anyone else. He was my mentor, training
me to be an evangelist with a world view.
Ann and I considered it an honor for him to stay in our home each
spring. Agrippa often joked that he had
a home in America and he let us live in it to care for it. He lovingly called Ann “Annie”. He is greatly missed.
To paraphrase 2 Timothy 4:6&7: He has
already been poured out as a drink offering, and the time of his departure has
come. He has fought the good fight and
has finished his course. He kept the
faith.
A memorial
fund has been established to care for his family and further the work of The
Kingdom in Zimbabwe. Please send all
contributions to Dr. Agrippa Dube Memorial Fund, c/o Impact Ministries
International, Inc., 758 Silver Bluff Rd., # 5431, Aiken, SC 29804.
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From God's calling on the life of Agrippa Dube in 1983 to his beginnings in ministry with Evangelism Explosion, III, (click here for more info) to his later association with African Leadership and Impact Ministries International (click here for more info) we have seen the hand of God in his life and ministry.
Agrippa Dube works to care for an amazing number of AIDS ORPHANS in cooperation with the churches of Zimbabwe. They pay school fees and help pay for food and clothes for children that have lost their parents to the AIDS virus.
At the same time he and his staff are training several hundred "BUSH" PASTORS each year. These are people that have the desire to preach and pastor churches but would go otherwise untrained. Agrippa Dube takes seminary training to them using courses provided to them by BTCP (click here to view video) .
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Pastor Lynn Kirkland
Impact Ministries
Phone 803 400-3609
OUR BULAWAYO STAFF
Clara, Renat, Christopher,Benson, Calson, Gloria & Eshummael
Not Shown: Shadrack
Not Shown: Shadrack
Based in Harare:
Champion, Steven, & John
