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    An evaluation of the impact of poverty on the Liumba community in Liumba Mission Station: A strategy towards hardship alleviation
    (Adventist University of Africa, 2025-05) Monde Ilukena
    The study was about evaluating the impact of Poverty on the Liumba community in Liumba mission station:Astratey towards hardship alleviation. The research used a qualitative design that employed personal interviews and a focus group. Six individuals were interviewed and eight participants formed a focus group. The findings of this research indicate that poverty has had a negative impact on the Liumba mission station in its persuit to carry out the divine missiological mandate of reaching the community of Liumba. The findings in chapter two further revealed that both the Old Testament and New Testamennt presented the the challenge of poverty on mission and provided a blueprint of how God addressed the scourge of poverty among his people and on mission. Chapter four discussed the methodology in details employed in this rresearch. Chapter five analysed the findings using a thematic analysis by arranging the responses according to the questions in the investigation. Further it was found out that poverty has had a negative impact on the mission at Liumba mission station, and the social-economic prospects of the community of Liumba. Furthermore, a strategy towards poverty alleviation was devised in this chapter. Chapter six suggests about six recommendations on how the challenge of poverty on mission can be addressed by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The use of integrated approach involving non-governmental organisations, youth ministries department, opening churches for literacy classes to address the effects of poverty on mission and in the community of Liumba.