About

Mutale grew up in a Christian family where going to Sunday school and attending church was mandatory. From a very young age of about 9, He never had problems with going to church because he didn’t want to disobey his parents. But clearly, his heart was unregenerate, going by his sinful acts that did not tally with what was taught at Sunday School. For him, going to church was about maintaining the ‘good name’ of an obedient son. This was in Kasama, in the Northern Province of Zambia.

In 1999, their local congregation received a singer, Mr Kasonde, from Mpika who came for a conference in Kasama. Mutale’s parents offered to host him in their home. The very first evening with them, just after supper, the visitor asked if they could have a bible study as a family. This is something Mutale had never seen happen in their home, although his parents always pointed him and his siblings to God during informal conversations. So they studied the bible that night and prayed together. They did this for the entire period Mr Kasonde stayed with them. For Mutale, just going to church on Sunday was enough and he thought this could earn him salvation. But could some people have taken this God so seriously as to even have family bible studies? He wondered.

From then on His father began teaching God’s word in their home in formal evening bible studies even after the singer had left. He quite can’t remember exactly what topics these family bible studies were about, but he recalls that his curiosity about the God of the bible now exceeded his complacent religiosity. Apart from home bible studies, he started searching Scriptures on his own by having extended bible reading sessions. It is during this period, then in 2000, before his grade 9 final exams, that he really grasped the reality of God. He saw the need to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and repented of his sin. God forgave him and he knows that there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1). Now he knows that his salvation, not in part but the whole, is in Christ and in Him alone.

Mutale is a member of Kabwata Baptist Church in Lusaka, Zambia, where he and his wife Cynthia exercise their gifts to serve God and his people. They have three children.