The annual Southern Africa Encounter Campus retreat took place from 12-14 July, bringing together 172 campus students from eight countries across Southern Africa. This was our biggest retreat since Covid. The theme was Revolutionary and we had Perrie Keeve and Dominic Camerino from Columbia, South Carolina as special guest speakers. It was wonderful to cap off the retreat with a baptism.

Connected to the Encounter Campus retreat was a training week for all the campus leaders. The focus was on Spirit-led Leadership and providing a practical ministry toolbox to lead healthy growing campus ministries.

The Southern Africa School of Missions (SASM) is now in its fourth year, we have 10 students participating in the programme geared towards training the next generation for the full-time ministry, young leaders from six different countries.

The programme has three pillars:

• Academic Biblical Studies – the students completed three modules: The Word of God; New Testament Survey and Old Testament Survey (Team photo)
• Practical Leadership Development – the Focus was on ‘Leading Yourself’ and ‘Making Disciples of Jesus’ 
• Global Connection – the students had the opportunity to connect with others training in similar programs around our global fellowship and the training time was on Church History centred around the inception and development of our ICOC family of churches.

We will have one further graduate at the end of 2024, Elton Mucavele from Maputo, Mozambique. He plans to join the Beira mission team at the beginning of 2025. Please pray for him on this new adventure.