21/10/2022
he North Zambia Field is one of the church administrative units of the Northern Zambia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
The North Zambia Field was organized in 1972, and is comprised of the Copperbelt, Luapula, and Northern provinces of Zambia, with the headquarters office situated in Mansa, the capital town of Luapula province. It was realigned in 1988 to separate the Copperbelt province, while maintaining the name of North Zambia Field. Further realignment was done in July 2007 to separate the Luapula province from Northern province.
The current North Zambia Field region is comprised of two provinces namely, the Northern province and the newly created Muchinga province. There are several local dialects spoken in these two provinces, such as the Bemba, Bisa, Mambwe-Lungu, Inamwanga, Iwa, Tumbuka, and Lambya languages, with Bemba being spoken most. The North Zambia Field now has 315 churches and 360 companies with a membership of 90,404 against a territorial population of 2,038,523,1 which was 4.97 percent of the population, as of December 31, 2019. The territorial region measures 165,456 square kilometers.2
Origin of SDA Work in the Territory
The earliest recorded attempt to pe*****te northeast Rhodesia (now northern Zambia) was between June 8 and July 17, 1914, when J. C. Rogers from Nyasaland (Malawi) visited the region, having entered through Abercorn (Mbala) to look for a mission station site.3 He passed through Mporokoso and crossed the Kalungwishi River into the Chimpili hills. Within the vicinity of the Kalungwishi River he found a place that was free from tsetse fly, where cattle and horses were kept safely. That was the place he had in mind for a prospective mission site.
Later, in 1919, W. E. Straw, Superintendent of Zambesi Union Mission, accompanied by John N. de Beer, Superintendent of Somabula Mission, visited the region again in search of a mission station site. They located the site at Chimpempe (Longitudes 29 E and 33 E; Latitudes 9
