{"id":21434,"date":"2025-06-16T18:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phczambiasouthernconference.com\/?p=21434"},"modified":"2025-06-16T18:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:10:19","slug":"thousands-gather-for-big-sunday-phc-zambia-celebrates-pentecostal-sunday-across-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phczsouthernconference.com\/?p=21434","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Gather for Big Sunday: PHC Zambia Celebrates Pentecostal Sunday Across the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>June 2025 \u2014 Zambia:<\/strong><br>In a powerful display of faith and unity, <strong>thousands of members of the Pentecostal Holiness Church (PHC) Zambia<\/strong> gathered in different towns and districts across the country to celebrate <strong>Pentecostal Sunday<\/strong>, marked by a grand worship event known as <strong>Big Sunday<\/strong>.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Lusaka to Chipata, Kabwe to Mongu, and everywhere in between, PHC churches held simultaneous services filled with vibrant worship, heartfelt prayer, and dynamic preaching under the theme: <strong>\u201cEmpowered by the Holy Spirit for the Harvest\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Nationwide Gathering of Believers<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pentecostal Sunday is a sacred day on the church calendar, commemorating the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as described in Acts 2. For PHC Zambia, <strong>Big Sunday<\/strong> is more than a service\u2014it is a spiritual convocation, a time when congregations pause to reflect, rededicate, and realign with the mission of evangelism, revival, and holiness.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In many locations, <strong>churches hired larger venues<\/strong>\u2014open fields, school halls, and community grounds\u2014to accommodate the overflow of members, friends, and first-time visitors. Choirs led praise in multiple languages, dance teams ministered, and pastors delivered Holy Spirit-inspired messages calling for personal renewal and community transformation.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1134\" height=\"694\" src=\"http:\/\/phczambiasouthernconference.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1000023042-1134x694.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21435\"\/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2025 \u2014 Zambia:In a powerful display of faith and unity, thousands of members of the Pentecostal Holiness Church (PHC) Zambia gathered in different towns and districts across the country to celebrate Pentecostal Sunday, marked by a grand worship event known as Big Sunday. From Lusaka to Chipata, Kabwe to Mongu, and everywhere in between,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phczsouthernconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phczsouthernconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phczsouthernconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phczsouthernconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phczsouthernconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phczsouthernconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21436,"href":"https:\/\/phczsouthernconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434\/revisions\/21436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phczsouthernconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phczsouthernconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phczsouthernconference.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}