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Church Verification Report

Reference FN-VET-0025-20260824  ·  Review date 2026-08-24
This document records the verification of
Book Of Life (BOL)
Zomba, Malawi · listed since 2026-08-20
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 (gmail.com, common for small churches)
  • No website or social page was provided
  • Independent web search performed: see the findings on the right
  • We wrote to this church and it answered from its own address on 2026-08-24 09:59; a person here read the exchange

What we found

We searched for "Book of Life" together with Zomba, with Malawi, and with the contact name, and the church appears consistently in partner-ministry profiles. A US partner network describes Clifford Masambuka as founder and senior pastor of Book of Life (BOL), a registered nonprofit church and ministry headquartered in Zomba City, Malawi, with branches in several regions (globalone80.org, including a downloadable bio PDF). A UPCI-linked fundraising site carries his appeals, saying pastors work in Zomba, Machinga, Phalombe and Blantyre districts doing community evangelism, prison outreach and youth Bible study centres (missionpossibleupci.com), and another mission site adds that they run 40 youth Bible study centres (blessministries.org). We found no independent Malawian news article, denomination register entry, map listing or church-owned website, and no scam or fraud reports. The findings are summarized here for space; the full research was weighed in the review.

Search conclusion: weak evidence. An independent web search is part of every review; an online page alone does not prove a congregation exists.
This church answered our questions by email, from the address we have on file. A person here read the exchange and it was weighed in the verdict; we deliberately publish nothing from it, because being visible is not safe everywhere in the world for a congregation.
7/10SCORE
7–10 Verified
4–6 Provisionally listed, information requested
1–3 Not verified

Our conclusion: Independent searching found Book of Life (BOL) and Clifford Masambuka named as founder and senior pastor on several third-party mission sites, including a partner network profile with a downloadable biography (globalone80.org) and mission pages describing pastors and youth Bible study centres in Zomba, Machinga, Phalombe and Blantyre, which matches the name, town and contact person given here. The church also replied to us from the email address

No further action is needed. This report is refreshed whenever the church is reviewed again.

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