Mbuyi Nkitabungi

Missionary, Person

1959 –

87

Who is Mbuyi Nkitabungi?

Mbuyi Nkitabungi was one of the first persons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to become a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and he was the first native of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to become a Mormon missionary.

Nkitabungi was born in Luebo, Kasaï District, Belgian Congo, eight months before Congolese independence. Nkitabungi's father was a wealthy businessman and a polygamist with two wives and fifteen children. His mother was a Presbyterian who took her children to church every Sunday.

In 1969, Nkitabungi's father sent him to live in Belgium, where he attended a private school. In May 1980, Nkitabungi met missionaries from the LDS Church in Brussels. He was baptized a member of the LDS Church on 1980-07-19.

In April 1982, Nkitabungi became a full-time missionary for the LDS Church in the England Birmingham Mission of the church, where he learned to speak English. He was the first missionary of the LDS Church from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nkitabungi baptized 24 people in England and returned to Zaire in April 1985. The LDS Church was small in Zaire at the time, and the congregation in Kinshasa met in Nkitabungi's home for a period of time. In 1986, the church received legal status in Zaire and full-time missionaries arrived.

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Born
Oct 19, 1959
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Nationality
  • Congo
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Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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