Rev. Dr. Notsen Ncube was born and raised in the Matopo rural district of Zimbabwe, in a polygamous family with 18 children that strongly believed in African Traditional Religion. Through the influence of his\u00a0primary school teacher, Mrs. Mary Ncube (Mzitshwa-Na Costance), who served as the pastor for the local Brethren in Christ Church (BICC Tudi 1), he\u00a0became a Christian. His original name was Notice. Unfortunately, someone at the Birth Registry Offices misspelled his name, and it was never corrected. His father, Elias Qanje Ncube, was married to Simeleni Sibindi. They lived in a village called Tudi 1. His father was a farmer and owned a huge herd of cattle, goats, and sheep. As the last-born, Notsen was assigned to look after sheep for several years and transitioned to herding calves and cattle as he grew older. He praises the Lord about such assignments, because a pastor was being trained! He received Christ as his personal Savior in 1986 and was called to ministry in 1991. He then trained at EKuphileni Bible Institute from 1993 to 1995. After his first graduation, he pastored BICC Maphisa and Nkulumane from 1996 to 2014. He also studied at the Theological College of Zimbabwe from 2001-2004, and at the University of Zimbabwe from 2010-2012, where he graduated with an MA in Leadership & Management. In 2015, he relocated to the United States with his family to further his studies. He enrolled at ²ÝÝ®ÉçÇø and graduated with an M.A. in Conflict Transformation, and later studied at Lancaster Bible College, where he graduated with Ph. D in Leadership.<\/p>\n
Notsen has served as the National chairperson of Peace and Social Justice for the BICC in Zimbabwe for several years, has attended seminars and conferences on peacebuilding in Jamaica and Germany, and spent three months researching at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands in 2013. The reason for conducting such workshops is that many communities and institutions in Africa face challenges, including ethnic tensions, poor governance, poverty, disease, and socio-economic challenges. It is necessary to empower leaders with peacebuilding skills to minimize and eventually eradicate the prevailing challenges and traumas.<\/p>\n
The main task for Notsen is facilitating leadership development, peace-building, educational, and awareness workshops. The approach uses the 4A Model, namely Anchor, Add, Apply, and Away, which is helpful to elicit the information from the participants. There is also biblical integration in all lessons. The facilitation focuses on the Key people (Church leaders) and More people (interested individuals & future leaders), as well as all people (Congregants & Members of the community).
\nNotsen has conducted workshops in all Church Districts and has identified a strong need to teach on this important subject, as people are suffering from both historical and current traumas. In addition to conducting workshops, the Peace & Social Justice committee designed a pamphlet to advertise their programs. A Peace Manual was co-authored for use by all BICC congregations in Zimbabwe and to coach BICC Peace Integrity Clubs, coordinators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10237,"template":"","regions":[1362,765,780,782],"fields-of-practice":[1169],"degree":[760],"grad-year":[1417],"class_list":["post-7912","cjp_alumni","type-cjp_alumni","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-africa","regions-north-america","regions-usa","regions-zimbabwe","fields-of-practice-conflict-transformation-and-peacebuilding","degree-ma_ct","grad-year-1417"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni\/7912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cjp_alumni"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cjp_alumni"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=7912"},{"taxonomy":"fields-of-practice","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fields-of-practice?post=7912"},{"taxonomy":"degree","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/degree?post=7912"},{"taxonomy":"grad-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grad-year?post=7912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}