Africa Enterprise, founded in 1961 by Michael Cassidy, is an indigenous Christian interdenominational, interracial ministry of evangelism, reconciliation, leadership training, relief and development. Their mission is “To evangelize the cities of Africa through Word and Deed, in partnership with the Church” in 10 nations: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Congo (DRC), and Zimbabwe.
The focus of this ministry is to evangelize in Word and Deed through evangelistic campaigns, healing and reconciliation seminars, discipleship, Christian leadership development and empowerment and development of the government and community as a whole. They work with widows of the genocide, street children, prison fellowship and youth leadership, schools and the government to share the Gospel and increase the worth of life, bring dignity and give a purpose for living in Christ.
BanguiEvangelicalSchool of Theology (BEST) - Central African Republic
The Seminary’s mission is to train and graduate students in Biblical and Theological studies at the BA and Masters level. BEST is an interdenominational Seminary serving more than 14 French speaking countries in Africa to train and develop Christian leaders.
Ecole Superieure de Theologie Evangelique Shalom (ESTES) – Chad
ESTES, located in Chad, has as it’s mission to train at least 20 godly servant leaders annually (177 graduates to date) and send them to serve in churches in Africa as Evangelists, Pastors, teachers and social workers. The seminary offers a BA degree to all students. They also train wives of students, deliver seminars for pastors and offer an evening extension program for developing and training lay people.
Hope’s mission is to reach out to the “poorest of the poor” in Ethiopia through holistic human development, assisting with physical and spiritual needs. Hope runs schools in 5 regions of Ethiopia and has developed a strategy called “Ladders of Hope” starting with basic needs of food & clothing, then education, vocational training, job placement, and spiritual development.
HOAM was established in 2002 to plant Christ-honoring, reproducible and culturally relevant churches, by national missionaries, in the countries of the Horn of Africa: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Tanzania. Of the nearly 200 million people living in the Horn countries, nearly half are Muslim.
Their mission is to train students in Biblical and Theological studies and skills offering degrees at the Masters and Doctorate levels. NEGST has over 500 graduates from at least 30 countries, with a student body today of 150 residential and 170 extension students. The first PhD cohort is due to graduate in 200.
VEF’s mission is to break the cycle of poverty by providing business training, seed capital and ongoing mentoring rural entrepreneurs not easily reached in Sub-Saharan Africa - Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Teams of 5 are given grants of $50-$100 for start-up new businesses. VEF’s economic model works through an extensive network of 80+ national Volunteer Field Coordinators which is key to VEF success.
Each year, we partner with WorldVision to build thousands of AIDS caregiver kits for Africa. More than 40,000 kits have been built through MPPC and Open Door churches over the past five years. We also assembled care kits for Haiti after the devastating earthquake there in early 2010.
