08 Sep 2014

Religious leaders from Tanzania descended on Gaborone over the weekend to pray for the deliverance of Gaborone and other dams from drying up.

Conducting a prayer for rain session at the Gaborone Dam, the visiting Christians said it was important to pray for rain so that there could be plenty of water for people and animals to survive.

One of the spiritualists, going by the title of chairman of Good News for all Ministries, Bishop Charles Gadi, said they learnt through the Internet that the water situation in Botswana was critical, particularly at the Gaborone Dam, hence their intervention.

“It is our mission to visit countries that are drought-stricken to ask for divine intervention and, besides Tanzania, we have prayed for rain in many other countries and God has always answered our prayers,” Bishop Gadi said.

He said in Tanzania, God had helped them to work tirelessly to change people’s mind-set through prayers on the sustainable management of their environment and its associated natural resources and every time the service was conducted God answered positively.

The religious leader said throughout 2006, Tanzania was hit by a drought that led to hydroelectric power dams drying up thereby plunging the nation into frequent power rationing.

During the time, they visited all the dams in the country and after assessing the situation, they conducted fruitful prayers and fasted for days before God answered as heavy downpours filled all the dams with subsequent power shortage restoration.

Bishop Gadi said both his country and Botswana had historical ties that the founding fathers Mwalimu Julius Nyerere and Sir Seretse Khama started during their presidency as they also underwent rapid economic and social progress.

He said climate change especially drought was a serious global challenge as temperatures increased, which many scientists attribute to human activity that is likely to bring widespread and unpredictable changes in Botswana and the region as a whole.

He said, like Tanzania, Botswana was vulnerable to drought as the country occupies one of the driest parts of the continent with a highly variable climate and great susceptibility to drought.

Bishop Gadi said water security was the most obvious challenge that had to be dealt with as a matter of urgency, adding that issues of drought pushed them to pursue a multi-pillar prayer strategy through which the Lord may restore land.

“As servants of God, we do what God has assigned us to do; and we conduct that freely because things of God are done free of charge for blessings to be fruitful,” he said. ENDS