ABSTRACT
The chapter explores how missionary churches respond to ministering to persons with disabilities. Missionary churches are critical to this volume because they introduced Christianity in Zimbabwe from the West. Currently, the majority of, if not all, leaders of the missionary churches are now Zimbabweans. Regardless of this status quo, the missionary churches’ practices and beliefs continue to be linked with and influenced by Western Christianity. Therefore, the missionary churches ministering “to and with” persons with disabilities supply a valuable contribution to issues of disability in Zimbabwe. The West seems positive about improving disability issues; the question is what lessons African churches in Zimbabwe can learn from the Western approaches to disability.
