Capital:
Kinshasa
Population:
66,514,506
Languages:
French (official), Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba
Religion:
Roman Catholic 50%, Protestant 20%, Kimbanguist 10%, Muslim 10%, other (includes syncretic sects and indigenous beliefs) 10%
Life Expectancy:
53.98 years
GDP per-capita:
$300
Of Interest:
DRC is a vast country with an abundance of natural resources. It has a narrow strip of land that controls the lower Congo River, which is the only outlet to the South Atlantic Ocean. The country contains active volcanoes in the Great Rift Valley.
Location:
Central Africa, northeast of Angola
Voice of God Recordings - Kinshasa
Office Manager:
Serge Mali Kumu Alunga
Countries or Provinces Served:
The Kinshasa Office serves the countries of Rwanda, Burundi, and Republic of Congo in addition to its own 26 provinces: Sankuru, Bas-Uele, Kongo Central, Kwango, Kwilu, Mai-Ndombe, Kinshasa, Kasai, Lulua, Kasai-Oriental, Lomami, Maniema, Sud-Kivu, Nord-Kivu, Ituri, Haut-Uele, Tshopo, Nord-Ubangi, Mongala, Sud-Ubangi, Equateur, Tshuapa, Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba, Haut-Katanga.
Office Staff - 6 Employees:
Serge Mali Kumu Alunga - Office Manager André Banga Eyumi - AssistantJean Bosco Muzung'hu Mbetolo - Assistant Mbaka Mibeko - GuardianJean Baptiste Lunkuiya Mvul Tawan - GuardianDaddy Luntadila Kazadi - Secretary/UsherSpecial Information: Short Testimony of Office Manager:
Brother Mali accepted the Lord through a friend in his neighborhood, who is the brother-in-law of Pastor Barutti Kasongo. One day he visited his friend, he was 16 years old, and his friend gave him the French book “How Can I Overcome.” Studying literature, he was more interested in the nice French structures than in the contents of the book, using terms proper to the Message of the Hour, which was hard for him to understand. After he had completely read the first book, he gave it back to his friend and asked him for another one. His friend invited him to fellowship with him at his pastor's house, who was living across the street of the house of the family of Brother Barutti. That is when God got a hold of him. He was baptized the same year. And by His sovereign grace, he keeps holding on, this Message being his whole life. In February, 1998, he was called to serve the Lord in this work of distribution of the End-Time Message in Kinshasa.
Short History of Office:
The work of Voice Of God started in Kinshasa in 1986, when Brother Joseph Branham came for the first time to DRC with Brother Billy Paul Branham, Brother George Fergusson, and Brother David Branham. It was such a great event for the churches of the Message, and many people were present very early for the service of Sunday, where Brother Joseph, Brother Billy Paul, and Brother Fergusson spoke to the people of God. The meeting was held in a modest hotel of the city, the Diplomate Hotel, with the brothers from Jeffersonville and the ministers of the country. The decision was made there to open an office.
In 1994, the office moved from Avenue Bongolo to Quartier Kwenge II in Matete, and God helps them to this day, giving them their own building for the distribution of the Message to His people. VGR first started with about 10 distribution centers established throughout the country, with about 10,000 believers. Now, VGR has about 65 distribution centers and serves also three countries adjoining DRC (Rwanda, Burundi, and Congo Brazzaville.) The present number of believers is estimated to about 750,000 in the whole country. There are churches with more than 10,000 believers. The Message has been able to reach the jungles of the equatorial forest, and we even have Pygmy preachers preaching this precious Message to the Pygmies.