LUANSHYA, Zambia — Branches of the Church have been established in three major cities of what is called the Copperbelt of Zambia. Elder Robert C. Oaks of the Seventy, president of the Africa Southeast Area, established a branch in Luanshya Oct. 27; President Keith R. Edwards of the Zimbabwe Harare Mission conducted the meeting. On Dec. 1, branches were created in Kitwe and Ndola.
Missionary work in the Copperbelt region had been discontinued in the 1960s and again in 1994. In the last eight years, eight member-families remained faithful until the re-establishment of missionary work and the creation of the branches. Today, there is an average attendance of more than 160 each week in the Copperbelt. There are five missionaries serving from the Copperbelt in various parts of Africa.
