George (staff) and student with first cabbages harvested
EBENEZER
Ebenezer is a training centre that aims to equip young people in rural Zimbabwe with the practical skills needed to run their own small scale agricultural businesses, and the spiritual maturity to be able to live Christ-centered lives in their communities.
OUR VISION
Equipping young people for life in Christ.
OUR MISSION
We exist to enable young people to live as a light for Christ in their communities by equipping them with appropriate business, agricultural and life skills.
EBENEZER’S APPROACH
Apprentices at Ebenezer receive instruction in basic business principles, small-scale agriculture and the Christian life. The training combines classroom discussion and practical outworking. Therefore, each apprentice at Ebenezer not only learns about small-scale agriculture, they actually start and run their own agricultural business.
During the two year residential program, they are able to make enough profit to repay their start up loans and buy the livestock and equipment needed to continue their business at their home. Ebenezer desires to give people the opportunity to not only become successful farmers and business people, but also to become mature followers of Christ. Therefore in this area, as in with the farming and business teaching, classroom discussions based on the Bible are made practical as staff and apprentices live alongside one another and serve the community around them.
The hope is that this holistic, integrative approach, combining business, agriculture and Bible teaching, will produce men and women who can provide for their families and be mature, Christ-centered leaders in their rural communities.
