{"id":138,"date":"2025-08-21T11:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thywordnetworks.com\/church\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:14:50","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thywordnetworks.com\/church\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"138\" class=\"elementor elementor-138\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-116e690 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"116e690\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-58a2f22 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"58a2f22\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0e5097 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f0e5097\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About Us<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fa66eaa e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"fa66eaa\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78da62e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"78da62e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Thy Word Family Church was established to fulfill the Great Commission of Jesus Christ in MAKING disciples of all nations.<\/p><p>Pastor Anthony and Lady Chanda Katongo the pioneers of this church have the people at heart. Both of them having accepted Jesus Christ as their LORD and Savior at very tender ages have felt a CALL to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the nations.<\/p><p>After having been involved in ministry with a number of churches in the United States for sometime, while there, they felt a lead to go back to Zambia their home country in 2014. In January 2015 they begun a virtual Ministry which has since grown capturing participants from all over the globe. 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