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EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF BOTSWANA
STATEMENT OF THE YEAR
The Evangelical Fellowship of Botswana (EFB) would like to take this time to
wish all Batswana and the nation at large, a happy and prosperous new year
The Lord has shown mercy to this nation from its inception as a Republic and
has continued to this far
We pray that He continue to sustain us even as we continue to depend on Him for
guidance through prayers in our various congregations, business meetings and
private lives
May God keep us united as a people regardless of our political divide, tribe,
or race
May He give our country more rains, more minerals, the wisdom to diversify the
economy and the «power to prosper»
EFB wishes to take this time to urge its members to intensify prayer and
evangelism efforts seeing that the enemy is doing all to cause harm and keep
people in spiritual bondages
In recent years, we have seen an escalation of Satanism in our public schools,
drug and substance abuse among the youth, juvenile delinquencies,
breaking down of families, increasing HIV infections, passion killings,
mischievous and rascal behaviors
A case in point is the recent events in Thamaga culminating in an innocent
elderly parent being killed
We have evidenced an increase in corrupted sexual morals, infiltration of
anti-societal norms, road carnages etc
All these behaviors, call for intensified prayer and evangelism effort and we
thus call all EFB churches and those subscribing to the evangelical doctrine of
regeneration to intensify evangelism effort
We remind our beloved citizens that we are now less than a year towards the end
of 2016, our 50th Independence annivesary where we have set a clear vision of
what nation we wish to be
We therefore urge every Motswana to redouble his or her effort to realize the
vision
We pray that God continues to assist us all to realise this noble vision
At the EFB we will actively and passionately continue our role as a prophetic
voice and a moral compass to the nation
We do this without fear or favour and know that the nation continues to heed
our voice of caution and reason
We therefore wish to reiterate some of our concerns as follows
EFB’s continues to caution the nation particularly those in leadership to
uphold the righteous standards set by our forefathers
The standards they set includes but not limited to criminalising homosexuality,
prostitution and abortion
Those calling for the legalisation of these should be warned that
Prostitution dehumanizes
It takes away dignity and replaces it with shame
That is why even those calling for its legalization cannot dare their daughters
to go into it let alone themselves
It sentences a woman to the life of shame in the present, and secures her for
eternal hell fire after final judgment
We believe in the inherent value of a woman
She is a living being not a commodity for commerce, a nation builder,
a life carrier and life’s shelter, a protector, a nurturer, a home maker,
a wife, a mother and a sister, above all she has the imago dei-the image of
God
Her price is the blood of the Son of God
We call those calling for legalization for prostitution to desist and to
respect the value and dignity of women
We call for the protection of human life, born and unborn
Human life takes precedence to personal privacy
We do not have the right to privately kill another human being
In a pregnancy situation, we have two lives-the life of the woman and the life
of the unborn child for both are human with potentialities
Under normal circumstances, a woman would have right to do as she wants with
her body, but when she carries another life, we have two lives both of which
have right to live
None of these two lives have the right to take the life of the other
Only when one is under threat can there be tampering to save the other
Homosexuality is foreign to our nation and above all is regarded as an
abomination in the Bible
We are encouraged by the government’s appeal of the LEGABIBO registration case
Homosexuality criminalized in our penal code must remain as such and we should
not encourage the practice
The EFB is disheartened by voices of intolerance in the national space
In a democracy such as ours everyone has the right to express his or her views
It is also enshrined in our culture and norm as Batswana as expressed in the
Tswana idiom;
«mafoko a kgotla a mantle otlhe, mmualebe o a bo a bua la gagwe
gore mona lentle a le tswe»
In the national space, there are topical issues that are debated varying from
economy, arts, traditional renaissances and EFB encourages such healthy debates
which are important for our development
We have however noted that at times when we at the EFB within its space as a
faith based institution speak on issues of morality that we have been faulted
as being intolerant
We have found those accusing the EFB of intolerance to be having «three fingers»
pointing back at them
They are intolerant of EFB’s view and do not have room for opinions different
from theirs
The EFB does not habour hatred for homosexuals nor those who hold a different
view
On other issues
In October 2014 The EFB together with the Botswana Council of Churches (BCC)
and the Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC) set up an Observer
Mission and fully participated in observing the General Elections
In preparing for the General Elections the EFB had encouraged registration for
Elections and eventually motivated for its members and Batswana at large to go
and vote
We thank God that the elections went conducted peacefully
We believe those elected are both within the perfect will and the permissive
will of God
We urge all the legislators to ensure that the will of God is sacrosanct in
their mandate and ensure that morality guides legislation
As EFB, we pledge our prayers for our legislators
Whilst the legislators are totally free to express their views and vote
according to their good consciences, we hold them accountable to remember what
they promised the electorate, what the electorate holds in high regard and what
the electorate abhors
We will continue to bring these issues up so our legislators do not become a
law unto themselves
The EFB encourages all in leadership as well as all citizens and residents to
do all it takes to ensure Zero tolerance for corruption
We encourage His Excellency our President to continually take all actions
required to set the right tone from the top
We wish our His Excellency our President, Cabinet, our political and
traditional leadership sound health and the wisdom of King Solomon.
«I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health,
as it goes well with your soul» 3 John verse 2
MAY GOD BLESS OUR NATION-BOTSWANA