{"id":7912,"date":"2017-05-04T12:22:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/?post_type=cjp_alumni&#038;p=7912"},"modified":"2018-02-07T21:51:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T01:51:56","slug":"notsen-ncube","status":"publish","type":"cjp_alumni","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/peacebuilder\/cjp-alumni\/notsen-ncube\/","title":{"rendered":"Notsen Ncube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notsen Ncube was born and raised in Matopo rural district of Zimbabwe in a polygamy family composed\u00a0of fifteen children that strongly believed in African Traditional Religion. Through the influence of a\u00a0primary school teacher who served as the pastor for the local Brethren in Christ Church (BICC), he\u00a0became a Christian. He was called to ministry in 1991, enrolled at Ekuphileni Bible Institute in 1993 and\u00a0graduated in 1995 with Diploma in Theology. While serving as the pastor, he studied at the Theological\u00a0College of Zimbabwe from 2001-2004 where he graduated with Bachelor of Arts in Theology and BA with\u00a0Honors in Practical Theology. Then from 2010-2012 he enrolled at the Africa Leadership and\u00a0Management Academy (ALMA) where he graduated with Masters in Leadership and Management. He\u00a0realized his passion for pastoral care, Leadership Development and Peacebuilding. He has served as the\u00a0National Chairperson of Peace and Social Justice for the BICC in Zimbabwe for four years. He has\u00a0attended seminars and conferences on peacebuilding in Jamaica, Germany and spent three months\u00a0researching at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands in 2013. His country and Church are\u00a0faced with several big challenges including ethnic tensions, bad governance, poverty, diseases and socio-economic challenges. He holds an MA in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University, and continues to\u00a0work with other church leaders in minimizing the above challenges that are disturbing peace in\u00a0his country and the Church at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8572,"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\/8572"}],"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}]}}