The History And War In Rhodesia - Pastor Titus Murefu | Theology, Things & Stuff #016

J. Christopher McMichael was privileged to be raised in a Christian home, attending church his entire life. He surrendered his life to the Lord as a child while at a summer Baptist youth camp in the mountains of Tennessee. As a teenager on his first missions trip, he began to recognize the call of God to ministry. He earned a degree in earth sciences from Tennessee Tech University and enjoyed a successful career as a geologist in geotechnical engineering and mining. In 2007, he and his wife Manda were installed as the pastors of Engrafted Word Church while continuing to consult as a geologist for the next thirteen years. Today, Chris’ focus in solely on the church and world missions. After authoring six books and learning the ins and outs of book publishing, he launched Petra Press Publishing in 2023, with the goal of helping pastors and ministers publish their God-inspired work with the highest standard possible. Chris and his wife have three children they love raising in Tennessee.

Titus Murefu was born on March 29, 1954, during the Apartheid and the Rhodesian Bush War in Chivu, Zimbabwe. After losing his father, who was an evangelist in the Apostolic Faith Mission, to a violent death at the hands of Afrikaner mercenaries, Titus honored his father’s last commission by answering God’s call to preach the Gospel. Titus left his positon as a schoolteacher to begin ministry training in Harare in 1975 at an affiliate school of the renowned minister Reinhard Bonnke. He later went on to assist Rev. Bonnke by leading worship and interpreting at his crusades in South Africa. Today, Pastor Titus ministers and lectures at Living Waters Bible College, where he has served for over 40 years, and leads Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) Ebenezer Church in Harare. As a distinguished pastor, apostle, and Bible teacher to the Zimbabwean church, his decades of faithful labor have greatly edified the Body of Christ in a once war-torn region of Africa. He has been instrumental in unting and strengthening the church in Zimbabwe and is known around the world for his deep love for God’s people and the global Church.