ExodusMagMay2020

Pastor Choice Hills
W H O I S P A S T O R C H O I C E
H I L L S ?
Choice Ruvimbo Hills is a wife to
Brighton Hills; a mother; a
daughter to John and Widi Bota
and a sister to four brothers. The
only girl in the family. In 2013 I
became a wife to my husband, an
Apostle at Word Ministries
(formerly known as Grace
International Ministries). That is
where my journey in ministry
started, as a co-pastor to my
Husband. However, Isaiah 60:4
says, lift up thine eyes round about,
and see: all they gather themselves
together, they come to thee: thy
sons shall come from far, and thy
daughters shall be nursed at thy
side. The daughters of God have
unique challenges and need to be
nursed in order to get on their feet
and inspire others. So this came as
another dimension of my calling, to
nurse the great physician's patients
by my side in word as well as
sharing the spirit. Therefore, I am a
preacher of the gospel and a
marriage counselor.
When I was a bit older, my mother
told me that she gave birth to me at
a Catholic clinic called St Clements
nursing home in Harare Zimbabwe.
In the agony of her labour pains as
the young mother then, she felt like
giving up. At the time she had her
own marital issues and pains she
was discovering. When the scan
showed that it would be a girl, the
pain took a greater emotional
twist. She couldn't imagine her
little girl growing up, and maybe
fall into life's ugly marital
predicaments. God sent a Catholic
nun who worked at the facility,
as Jesus when He wanted to give
up in Gethsemane was comforted
by an angel. This sister, her name
still unknown came and
encouraged her to push and give
birth. She encouraged her that a
girl child is loved by God and would
be like her, a nun, and if God
permits minister in God's service.
In my family my mom was the God
inspiration. My father is not a
believer. She was raised in AFM
and so we all got our spiritual
foundation there.
I attended AFM mission school
Rufaro High. That is where my
spiritual life had a great shift. It is
where I had an encounter with
God, and my personal relationship
with Him began.
Growing up among boys, I was very
competitive and always took
challenges. I wasn't afraid to take
the difficult subjects. I was used to
boys at home and always wanted to
challenge them and become better
than them. It wasn't hard for me
because intellectually I was bright
and thought that excelling was
evidence that I’d be a future
doctor, yet God had His own plan.
I met with fire branded students
and quickly joined the Scripture
Union Group, their zeal awakened
something I didn't know I had
inside of me. My SU teacher shaped
me into a responsible leader, so I
learnt humility to serve. I started
having prophetic dreams, Christ
drawing me into service.
When I met my husband, he was
still in Bible School training.
Accepting his proposal meant
accepting his calling. I was a very
logical person growing up, anything
that didn't add up to me was a total
turn off. That is when I knew that I
received a touch of God, because
after I met him, that strong edge of
control and logic was washed away
with peace.
I grew up in a society where I saw a
lot of women suffering from
identity crisis and very low selfesteem,
and that bothered me. The
marriages that I saw stirred zeal in
me to study the word of God, and I
discovered that there was more to
marriage and more to enjoying
womanhood.
Growing up as the only girl in the
family, I believe there was always a
unique way the Lord wired me
which made me feel for a girl child
and women. I desired for them to
live in freedom of the Holy spirit
and stand for themselves, not
vulnerable but well able. If a
woman was created a helper, I
discovered that there was a device
which the devil has been using to
keep women in unnecessary
anxiety, to waste their time
battling for equal rights ignorantly.
Not knowing that they were
created helpers, better than the
one who needs help. So a woman
can be better than a man, not in an
arrogant way but in God's way if
she has the right tools to let the
God given potential out.
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