Prophet Kambale’s 10-year journey of obedience: The story of Life International Church

There is something fitting about the fact that Prophet Amos Kambale’s ministry began not in a church, but in a lecture hall. Ten years on, the architecture graduate who once studied blueprints now oversees a spiritual structure of his own — Life International Church, known across Lilongwe and beyond as simply “The Solution Centre.”

The story starts, as many callings do, with a quiet unsettling. While training as an architect at what was then The Polytechnic — now the Malawi University of Business Academic Studies — Kambale experienced what he describes as “various divine visitations and encounters,” moments that planted the first seeds of a different vocation. He completed his studies, and for seventeen months worked faithfully within his trained profession. Then, he says, came a command he could not ignore: leave the firm, and give himself fully to winning souls.

He obeyed. With no congregation, no pulpit and no funding, Kambale relocated to Lilongwe — a city he believes God specifically appointed as his base — and began preaching wherever people gathered: village squares, school compounds, college halls across the Central Region.

A Father in Ministry

Every prophetic ministry, it seems, needs a spiritual lineage. For Kambale, that lineage was forged in 2012, after a prolonged season of fasting and prayer led him to Emmanuel Makandiwa in Harare. He stayed in the Zimbabwean prophet’s home, received counsel and prayer, and returned to Malawi carrying what he now describes as the prophetic DNA that would come to define LIC. To this day, he refers to Makandiwa simply as his spiritual father.

Four years later, on 1 May 2016, that DNA found institutional form. Life International Church held its first service at Lilongwe LEA Primary School — a handful of believers on borrowed benches, worshipping in a space that belonged to someone else. The church’s vision was ambitious from the outset: “Raising a Godly global generation with impact in all spheres of life.” Its mission wove together evangelism, discipleship, and — distinctively — wealth creation and societal transformation.

The choice of nickname, “The Solution Centre,” was deliberate. Kambale envisioned a church where people would bring not only their spiritual burdens but their practical ones too — a place where the Gospel addressed the whole of a person’s life, not merely their eternity.

From Classroom to Community Hall

A decade on, the physical journey of LIC tells its own story of growth. What began in a primary school classroom now fills the hall of Mbinzi Community Day Secondary School in Area 3 every Sunday — a congregation swelled by members travelling from other districts, and even neighbouring countries, drawn by what regulars describe as an atmosphere of healing, prophecy, and testimony. The church is now developing its own permanent property in the same area, a quiet but unmistakable signal of a ministry settling in for the long term.

Faith and Enterprise

Perhaps what distinguishes LIC most within Malawi’s crowded Pentecostal landscape is its refusal to separate the sacred from the practical. Kambale has built ventures spanning real estate, farming, supply chains, transport and construction — businesses he describes not as a departure from ministry, but as an extension of it. They fund the church’s work, certainly, but they also serve, in his telling, as a living demonstration to congregants of what disciplined, faith-rooted stewardship can look like.

It is a theology of transformation that reaches beyond the individual soul and into the home, the workplace, and — Kambale would argue — the nation itself.

A Jubilee Moment

This year marks LIC’s tenth anniversary, and the church has invited Zimbabwean prophet Prime Kufa — a close associate of Makandiwa — to lead the celebrations, drawing worshippers from across the region for what promises to be a significant gathering in the church’s short but eventful history.

Looking back over ten years, Kambale is careful to frame the story not as his own triumph, but as an act of obedience. “The church belongs to God,” he insists. “I am the person He privileged to pioneer it.”

As The Solution Centre begins its second decade, its founding invitation remains unchanged: come with your problem, meet Christ, leave equipped — not merely for eternity, but for every sphere of life in the present.