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Church Verification Report

Reference FN-VET-0837-20261110  ·  Review date 2026-11-10
This document records the verification of
The Gospel Faith Messengers Ministry
Blantyre, Malawi · listed since 2026-11-08
Verified

What we checked

  • Not a duplicate: no similarly named church is listed with us
  • The name reads as a real congregation
  • Contact email reviewed (yahoo.co.uk)
  • No website or social page was provided
  • Independent web search performed: see the findings on the right

What we found

We searched for "The Gospel Faith Messengers Ministry" together with Blantyre and Malawi, and for the contact email, and found no page, directory entry, Facebook page, map listing or news item for a congregation of that name in Blantyre. The closest matches are unrelated bodies with similar wording: a New Zealand-based teaching ministry called The Gospel Faith Messenger, whose own site notes that gospel tracts are being printed in Malawi but which describes no Blantyre church of this name, and a separate Gospel Messengers Church in Kampala, Uganda (gospel.org.nz, gospelmessengers.church). A Wikipedia list of Christian denominations in Malawi names many small bodies, including several with "Gospel" or "Faith" in the title, but it does not include The Gospel Faith Messengers Ministry. We found no scam reports, fraud warnings or complaints against this name, so there is no negative signal either. The findings are summarized here for space; the full research was weighed in the review.

Search conclusion: no evidence found. An independent web search is part of every review; an online page alone does not prove a congregation exists.
On our request, the church itself supplied additional evidence for this review; it was weighed in the verdict. See the appendix on page 2.
7/10SCORE
7–10 Verified
4–6 Provisionally listed, information requested
1–3 Not verified

Our conclusion: A photo of a building or gathering was supplied, which counts in the church's favour, but the description the contact sent describes The Gospel Faith Messengers Ministry as a New Zealand organisation founded in 1964 that ceased operations after its founder died in 2021, which does not describe a living congregation in Blantyre. Our independent search found no page, directory entry or map listing for a church of this name in Blantyre, only the unr

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Appendix: Evidence provided by the church

Belongs to report FN-VET-0837-20261110  ·  The Gospel Faith Messengers Ministry

On our request, the church itself supplied the material below on 2026-11-10. It was weighed in the verdict on page 1. The church agreed to publication.

Photo supplied by the church
Pages and linksN/A
Denomination or networkN/A
Vouched for byN/A
About the congregation, in their own wordsThe Gospel Faith Messengers (GFM) Ministry-founded in 1964 by Rodney and Jean Francis in New Zealand-ceased operations following the passing of Rodney Francis on November 17, 2021.
Material on this page was supplied by the church itself and is published with its consent. Faith.network reviewed it as part of the verification on page 1; supplying material does not by itself constitute verification. Errors are possible and no rights can be derived from this document. © Faith.network