Church Verification Report
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
What we found
We searched for "Shepherd Ministry" together with Gaborone and Botswana and found no church of that name anywhere in Botswana: no directory entry, no map listing, no Facebook page, no news mention and no denominational register linked it to Gaborone. The only similarly named bodies we found are elsewhere, such as The Shepherd Ministry Inc, a church in Lagos, Nigeria that moved to Abeokuta Express Road, Abule Egba, Lagos in 1993 and later to a headquarters on Dosunmu Street, plus unrelated groups in the UK and the United States. Botswana church listings we checked, including the member list of the Botswana Council of Churches in Gaborone and general overviews of churches in Botswana, do not mention it. The findings are summarized here for space; the full research was weighed in the review.
Our conclusion: No website or social page was given, and an independent web search found no church called Shepherd Ministry in Gaborone or anywhere else in Botswana, with the only similarly named groups located in Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States. Nothing suggests a problem with the signup itself: the name fits a Christian congregation, the city is plausible, and a free Gmail address is completely normal for a small church in Botswana. Because s
We have asked this church for one piece of extra evidence: a photo, a link, its denomination, or a church that can vouch for it. The moment we can verify, this report is upgraded. Without a response, the listing is paused after 14 days.