And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.”
– Matthew 28:18-20
What’s new this week
In Lagos, Nigeria, something quietly historic unfolded in October 2025. The Pan-African Conference for Missionary and Cross-Cultural Kids (PACMACK) was not just an event. PACMACK was a long-awaited answer to a question many children of African missionaries had carried silently for years: is there a place where my story makes sense? Neither the dominant global MK narrative nor the broader TCK framework fully tells the African MK story, shaped as it is by faith, culture, race, and Africa’s uniquely complex context. God showed up. And everyone present knew it. Click the link below to learn more about it.
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Missionary profile – Rosemary Athanas
On my first day on the mission field, my host cooked a newborn lamb that had been dead for a few days. Everyone waited to see if I’d eat it. I did. When it was time for bed, I was shown my sleeping quarters-a corner at the cowshed with a cowhide for a mattress and goats and chicken as roommates. They were testing me, and by the third day, I had passed the test and was accepted into the community.
I’m a missionary among the Datoga people in Tanzania, sent by my church, Tanzania Assemblies of God (TAG). I have been here for two years, and there was not a single Christian here when I came. Now, we have quite a number.
I was born in Tanzania to a Ugandan dad and a Rwandan Mom. I grew up with ‘Christian parents’ who also didn’t mind visiting the witch doctor once in a while. My nephew’s delayed development was the catapult for my salvation. When he couldn’t walk for almost two years, even after seeing witch doctor after witch doctor
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Missionary profile – Ezèchiel and Judith Adjai
The preacher asked, “Why are you on this earth?” It suddenly hit me that I didn’t know. I was embarrassed, and so I took three days to pray and ask the Lord why he sent me to the earth. The Lord gave me the purpose of my life – reaching the unreached people with the gospel.
My wife, Judith, and I are now missionaries with CAPRO. We serve in Benin where I am CAPRO’s National Coordinator. We do mobilization, discipleship and coordinate all the mission work in the country. We hope to reach three more unreached people groups in the next couple of years.
Having grown up in a large, nominally Christian (but polygamous) family, I was a confused young man. My parents weren’t born again, although they were Methodists.
I got saved after following a group of young men in hopes of getting a new Bible. It turned out to be an IFES Bible study meeting. There I came to
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Missionary profile – Mike Adegbile
I’m a mission catalyst, igniting the African evangelical force to reach North Africa. When I came into the leadership of the Nigeria Evangelical Mission Association (NEMA) as the executive secretary, our vision was to see the gospel extend to the Sahel, North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and even to the Middle East and back to Jerusalem.
That focused my view on the Sahel belt and Maghreb. I began reading about the Muslim world, which stirred my spirit for the Lord. The North is largely Muslim and not much was happening in terms of the gospel. I began studying African countries in detail, and I was burdened to see that the gospel is yet to reach that part of the continent.
I was saved at age 14 and soon after, spreading the gospel became natural for me. My relationship with Scripture Union propelled me
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Missionary profile – Sara Fernando Alfredo
I’m a missionary in Mocuba, Mozambique. My decision to become a Christian came after God saved me from a near-death experience, where I was buried deep in mud – literally.
Growing up, my father was a teacher, and one time he had to move to another village. My parents were not sure how life would be there, so my grandmother asked that I stay with her. In Mozambique culture, children are said to belong to the maternal grandmother.
However, she was a Muslim and a witch doctor. I would accompany her to pick roots in the forest for ‘treatment.’ We also practiced Islam.
After a while, I moved back to my parent’s house. By then, my parents had received Christ and had even become missionaries. I could see their passion for people. I accompanied them to the mission fields when they went to preach.
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Missionary profile – Felix Kalanzi
As a passionate, newly born-again Christian ten-year-old, I faithfully and fervently preached to the trees in the bush behind my cousin’s house, asking them to receive Christ. I didn’t get any converts. But I’m now a missionary and a mobilizer to a more receptive audience-an unreached people group in Malawi and the Malawian Christians.
I lost my parents in a span of three years before I was nine! My cousin-who we all called “aunt”, took me in. She was a widowed Christian, and she’d take me to her church-the Pentecostal Holiness Association (PHA). When I was ten, I got saved.
I was always sad about losing my parents so young, but I was immediately filled with joy and peace. I decided to be a preacher; my nickname as a young lad was ‘pastor’.
A team of evangelists in PHA went from door to door preaching. I relished accompanying them,
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Missionary profile – Matilda Ntukela
I’m a single lady serving as a missionary in Madagascar among the Malagasy. My mission journey started on a ship. Operation Mobilisation (OM) had a ship called Doulos that went from port to port, preaching the gospel. When it came to Port Elizabeth, South Africa, I was asked by my mentors if I could volunteer.
I volunteered on the ship for two weeks, and discovered missions for the first time. I saw many people who had left their families and were going around sharing God’s love. I was moved and prompted to be dedicated like that.
When the ship returned to Port Elizabeth again, I was asked to volunteer again, and I did. The Holy Spirit was so clear; I couldn’t resist. At the end of 2002, I quit my job to start a one-year missionary training in Pretoria. I continued doing inner-city ministry there, and also went to Malawi, Mozambique, Botswana, and Zambia to serve.
I had received Christ years before in 1994 when
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Missionary profile – Bongekile Nene
I’m serving with Youth with a Mission (YWAM) and Union Bible Institute, training and mobilising the African Church to be more involved in missions. I’m a pastor’s grandchild. I grew up in Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa.
My maternal grandparents were pastors; all of my mom’s family were born-again Pentecostals. My dad wasn’t a Christian. My grandfather would pick us up and take us to church. Nevertheless, I didn’t accept Christ until I was about 20 years old.
I was now a new being – but there was one problem: I was eight months pregnant and pledged to be married to a non-believer! Painfully, I broke off the engagement. I gave birth to a son and prayed that he’d serve God all the days of his life.
I started ministering to the youth in my neighbourhood. God laid it in my heart
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Missionary profile – Patrick
After I became a Christian, I would read and hear the Word of God, and be filled with a heavy burden in my heart thinking about the people who needed to know this Good News. I also noticed that both in and outside the church, a Bible was like a precious jewel – hard to find. Many people around me were not able to afford one.
Driven by this burden, I founded a small Bible outreach mission called Salt and Light Initiatives Bible Outreach Mission. I shared my faith with new friends in and outside Uganda, and I started collecting Bibles and sharing them with those in need.
I grew up the eldest child in a family of seven children. We lost our mother before I was 18. This loss affected our family and shaped our course of future life.
I didn’t know about Jesus Christ…
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Missionary profile – James and Carol Thiga
After five years of serving in frontier missions, we were worn out and needed to retreat and rejuvenate. We served for one year in northeastern Kenya, then four years in Marsabit (Kenya).
We went to the field excited about serving, but with time, as newlyweds and without much moral and financial support, cracks began to appear and enlarge both in our ministry and marriage.
We desperately desired to recover from emotional hurts, get more equipping, find proper sending structure and gain clarity for our next phase of ministry involvement.
Our lives, mental health, and emotions unravelled when we returned home.
We found ourselves questioning everything-even the calling to missions that we had been previously certain of. It was a depressing time for
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Missionary profile – Mark Kolo
While serving in the National Youth Service, I accompanied a missionary to the mission field. I saw places where people had never seen a Christian. I was appalled. I lost my peace. Questions plagued me. What would happen to these people? I asked God, “Can You do something about it?” God said, “You do something about it.”
I read in Matthew 9:37 that “the labourers are few”. I wondered how labourers could be few when the churches are full. Although Christians are plenty; it’s the labourers that are few. I was broken. I wanted to be a labourer.
I grew up surrounded by missionaries. My dad served with the mission, SIM. I didn’t know that some people had never heard the gospel. Born in Jos, Nigeria, and raised in Lagos, I was used to urban life.
I had accepted Jesus during a morning devotion at home in September 1985.
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Missionary profile – Bishop Dave Chikosi
My dad was a pastor with the Methodist church during colonial times. He didn’t live to see Zimbabwe’s independence.
He also didn’t see his son pastoring a church in the West, where the Methodist church began. I’m that son, now a pastor with Metro Grace International Church in Belleville, Michigan.
I grew up around church, but I didn’t develop a relationship with Christ. I saw things in church that turned me off, so I wanted to keep away. One evening, while in my room in high school, I was engulfed by the love and presence of God. It was so strong that it felt like God had walked into the room.
I cried the whole night. In the morning, I didn’t go to school; I went to look for a Bible instead. I looked everywhere, and I couldn’t find one.
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Missionary profile – Zack and Ruth Joshua
We are missionaries in Niger, involved in community development to transform people’s lives and perspectives with the gospel.
Ruth is a psychologist, and so we’re also doing post-marital counselling to help save marriages and show how godly marriages should look. There is no pre-marital counselling here. We now interact with six families. We also engage with the youth through sports.
In addition, we help young girls, who rarely go out of their homes because of the culture. Ruth teaches them skills to help build self-reliance in their lives.
Our first major task has been language learning. We were initially in the area where they primarily speak Hausa, which we also speak fluently. We are now in the capital learning French.
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