About – African Enterprise

Our Vision

Transformed lives in Christ through an empowered Church.

Our Mission

To evangelise the cities of Africa in word and deed in partnership with the church.

Our Story Our Story

Our passion to proclaim the Gospel is carried out primarily through evangelistic outreaches, or ‘missions’, in the major cities of Africa. We believe that all people – from street children to presidents – need to hear and be changed by the Gospel!

African Enterprise has played a pivotal role in Africa for the past 60 years in bringing peace and reconciliation during conflict, bringing hundreds of thousands of people to church and providing vulnerable people with new life options through apprenticeship programs.

Our commitment to the Great Commission and glorifying God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is made possible through our team of evangelists located in twelve countries throughout Africa, mission volunteers through churches in Africa and across the world, and all our supporters around the world.

Our Core Values

Authority of Scripture

We hold to Christ’s sacrifice and love for us to bring us to eternal life as outlined in the bible and we subscribe to the Lausanne Covenant.

Commitment

We are committed to honoring God along with our partners, effective evangelism, discipleship, peacebuilding, social action and sustaining our work.

Excellence

We are committed to achieving best outcomes through skill, innovation, authenticity and continuous improvement in all we do.

Integrity

We reflect integrity in our accountability to supporters and beneficiaries, trustworthiness, incorruptibility and honesty.

Unity

We believe in unity witnessing to our faithfulness to God’s command, and which is reflected in good teamwork, synergy, respect, conflict prevention, and partnership with churches and other strategic partners.

Claimed for Christ

1963-1971

Our History

As a young South African man, just 21 years old, Michael Cassidy had a heart for his people and felt the Lord calling him to city-evangelism in Africa. During the summer of 1961, he set out on an exploratory visit to 31 major cities of Africa, a trip in which God’s vision for Michael became clear. On a long walk on the beach, Michael drew an outline of Africa in the sand and wrote “Claimed for Christ” inside it. His experience is recounted in the book African Harvest: “He wrote in his diary; ‘I asked God for 50 years of ministry in Africa.’”

Graduating from Fuller Theological Seminary in 1963, Michael returned to South Africa with a small team and his work began. The first city-wide mission was held in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa and from there the work expanded slowly across the continent. A second team was established in Uganda in 1971 under the leadership of Bishop Festo Kivengere. Today AE has teams in twelve African countries: Ghana, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Zambia.