Equipping students for mission amongst African diaspora communities

In 2021, a grant was awarded to Missio Africanus in partnership with CMS to enable four students to train in their pioneer leadership training programme.

One student was Rachel Karanja: Rachel is in her second year studying with CMS, and also works with the sister organisation CMS Africa in Kenya where she leads a range of holistic mission and community transformation projects.

For Rachel, training with CMS is providing her with incredibly valuable, in depth biblical knowledge to aid her in her social outreach in Kenya. She has shared that for her the African MA is unique in having been designed specifically with African-background learners in mind. This has made it easy for her to apply what she is learning to her own context in Kenya.

She has also expressed immense gratitude for the bursaries provided and writes that:

“After I joined the MA course I was worried on how to raise the funds for my course. The generous bursary support from St Augustine’s Foundation is greatly appreciated and I am very confident that my dream of attaining an MA in African Christian Diaspora will soon be a reality.”