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Jeff & Kris Viljoen
Campus Outreach South Africa was officially launched in 2003. This also happened to be Jeffrey’s first year at the University of Johannesburg where he graduated with a B.A. in Sport Psychology in 2005. It was in his first year, as a very young believer that he met a CO staff worker. Eager to grow in his newfound faith, he began to be discipled by this CO staff person and grew tremendously in his faith. He joined the COSA staff team in 2006 and has been serving in the ministry ever since. In 2016, he stepped into the Regional Director Role of the ministry. Jeffrey Viljoen currently serves as the Network Director of COSA. He is married to Kristin Viljoen, and has 4 wonderful kids.
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Abigail Manana
Abigail grew up in a Christian household where her parents walked faithfully with the Lord. She came to know the Lord in high school in 2009. She was informally discipled in high school but it was only when she came to university where she got involved with CO that she was discipled more formally and frequently over a period of 4 years. She joined staff in 2018 at the University of Pretoria for two years before transitioning to the University of Johannesburg. She is married to Melisizwe and they have been blessed with a beautiful baby girl.
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Allison Neubert
Allison came to know the Lord through the ministry of Campus Outreach during her freshman year at the University of Memphis. It was during her time in college that God convinced Allison of her new identity in Christ and the call to multiply her life. Allison served with CO Memphis Resource Team for 5 years before moving to South Africa to serve alongside the CO South Africa ministry. Allison is passionate about using her gifts to resource campus ministries so that more students have the opportunity to hear and respond to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Amber Vinson
Amber moved to Kansas in 2011, where she would go on to attend Kansas State University in 2017. God interrupted her life by using faithful women to tell her of the redemption offered through Christ. She became involved with Student Mobilization on her campus and came to know the Lord personally in the summer of 2018. Over the next several years, God grew her vision for the world and cultivated in her a desire for all people to know Him. Through this, Amber continued to learn what it meant to be a disciple of Jesus and to make disciples of Jesus, and she is eager to be a part of how God is reaching the world through the lives of South Africans!
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Chandler Sells
Chandler grew up in Lawrence, Kansas where she eventually studied Biology at the University of Kansas. She grew up in a Christian home and had most of the head knowledge about who Jesus was, yet she did not fully understand what it actually meant to have a personal relationship with Jesus until her sophomore year of college. She spent the next three years learning what it meant to not only have a relationship with Christ but also how to make disciples on a college campus. Since Chandler has been impacted by the gospel, she is very excited to be a part of the CO team. Chandler will be joining the CO SERVE team as campus staff in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is super excited to watch the Kingdom of God grow in South Africa
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Dipuo Mabasa
Dipuo came to faith during the 2020 Covid pandemic. She began to build a relationship with God during that year in the four walls of her room. The following year was her first year at the University of Witwatersrand where God placed a deep desire in her heart to leave the comfort of her room and join a community and be part of his body. That is when she came across Campus Outreach and was invited to be part of a discipleship group. With two years of discipleship and being part of the community, Dipuo has seen God’s love expressed through other believers and is continuously learning how to serve and love people. She will be a CO staff Intern in 2024 and is excited to see the Kingdom of God grow!
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Divine Sithole
Divine came to know Christ in 2018. He grew up in a family of believers, but his faith only became real when he began to understand that a relationship with God was at the center of that faith. When he came to faith he had a lot of questions on how young people actually live out a life where they love and serve God. In June 2019, during first year in varsity at Wits he was introduced to the ministry of Campus Outreach for the first time through American students(CCP) who were at WITS and part of Campus Outreach in the States. He was then connected to the community and joined a bible study which then grew to a discipleship group. Within this space it's where for the first time he got to see and experience young people loving and following Christ which sparked a passion in his heart to call, love and serve others who do not know God and who are not connected to his church.
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Graham Kanagy
Graham grew up in a Christian home but never truly responded to God’s offer of redemption through Christ until his sophomore year of college. God used an older guy in Graham’s fraternity at Kansas State who intentionally sought him out and read the Bible with him to help him understand what this looked like and how he could begin to live this new life. Since then, Graham has become more and more convinced of the need for the gospel on the college campus and is excited to see what God will do through his life in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Katherine Miller
I am from Maryville, Tennessee and attended Tennessee Tech University. After having lived my life for myself and my sin, the Lord completely transformed my heart and life the summer following my sophomore year of high school. God used my time at Tech to open my eyes to the need for the Gospel in the world and to grow my heart for the lost world, which eventually led to my decision to go on staff with CO South Africa. While on staff, I desire to build relationships and share the Gospel with women so they can know the freedom of living life for Christ and join the mission of making disciples of all nations!
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Kearabilwe Ngoepe
Kearabilwe was born into a Christian home, having a mother who always read scripture to him once a week. As a result, from a young age, he knew what was in the scriptures and what they were about but lacked deeper understanding. While attending the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, he got introduced to Campus Outreach. Through it, he was discipled by a staff person who journeyed with him in his faith. It was then that his love for Christ, and his church grew a lot deeper. Thus, in 2023, he was delighted to become an apprentice at Reddoor Church, the partner church of the University of Pretoria Campus Outreach ministry.. After such a year, he could not resist but join what God is doing through CO South Africa. He now serves as a staff member at Campus Outreach and has a vision of just sharing the gospel with others as he strongly believes that the gospel is such great news and cannot be kept to oneself.
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Kgaugelo (Grace) Mlati
Kgaugelo came to faith in 2006 at a Sunday school camp when she heard the Gospel proclaimed. She continued her walk with God from there but only got to be formally discipled through the ministry of CO during her 3 years in varsity whilst pursuing a Psychology degree. It was then that she learned how to study the Bible for herself and the value of community, and God grew in her compassion for the lost which led to her decision to come on staff with CO in 2017. She is currently in her fifth year on staff and serving as a campus Team Leader at Wits university, and hopes to still be used by God in bringing the Gospel to the unreached whether by going herself or discipling a few who might go.
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Lenka Tsotetsi
Lenka came to know the Lord through investments made by a few students from the US who had come on a Cross Cultural Project in his first year at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was then plugged into a discipleship process where he would be exposed to and convicted about the importance of spending regular time in God’s word, the necessity for prayer, living in a like-minded community and living missionally, with the Lord stirring up the latter particularly through short-term mission trips. He has served with COSA since 2016 and spent part of that time in Lusaka helping establish the team there. He now works as the Finance Manager on the COSA team.
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Logan & Kgodisho Phashe
Logan came to know Christ at a young age through her family. She grew up in a Christian home where her parents and church discipled her in the ways of The Lord and taught her what it meant to follow Jesus. When she attended varsity at SHSU in Texas she got to know the staff in Campus Outreach. Through the ministry she grew a passion to disciple women and see the nations reached with the gospel. In 2019 she felt God leading her to join in on what God was doing through CO South Africa. She now serves as the LEAD Supervisor and has a vision to train and equip young international staff in ministry.
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Makgethwa Diketane
Makgethwa came to know Christ in her first year of university through COSA at WITS.. She grew up thinking she was a Christian and the fact that she went to church and was "a good child" made her a Christian. When she was in her first year, she met students who visited South Africa on a Cross Cultural Project. She was invited to bible studies and it was in those Bible studies that she learnt what it meant to be a follower of Christ and then realized she wasn’t one. She finally made the decision to invite Christ into her heart and to follow Him. Makgethwa was so excited and amazed at how such a big impact in her life happened so simply and how God used ordinary people to bring her to a relationship with Him. Makgethwa wanted this for more girls in her residence and started sharing the gospel and leading others in Bible studies. A passion and love for seeing others come to know Christ was fanned to flame and she believes the great commission is a command to everyone wherever they are in life. She now serves on staff with COSA at Wits University.
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Matthew Schwartz
Matthew grew up near Chicago and studied Computer Science at Kansas State University. He came into college with an intellectual belief in who God and Jesus were but had no idea that faith could be more than just going to church on a Sunday morning. The Lord placed older students around Matthew in the residence halls at K-State who shared their lives and the gospel. Matthew began to follow Christ his freshman year and lived the rest of his time at K-State, seeking to know God more deeply and see the people around him impacted by the power of the gospel. After a summer project in South Africa, Matthew is excited to be rejoining the team in South Africa to see how God will raise up university students who would be faithful to his mission.
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Michael & Maegan Cody
Michael and Maegan served with Campus Outreach at the University of North Alabama for 11 years before receiving the call to join the CO team in South Africa. They are most eager to see South African students begin following Jesus, to help shepherd and support the young staff there, and to be part of launching Christ-like laborers into all parts of African society. The Cody’s have been blessed with 3 kids: Noah Robinson, Aldyn, and Callan.
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Melisizwe Manana
Melisizwe grew up going to church but only came to faith through a Campus Outreach retreat in his second year in 2014 at Wits University. Following two years of discipleship on the campus, Melisizwe grew confident that God, in this season, was calling him to full-time university ministry. He has served in the ministry for five years and has a passion for discipleship and contextualisation of the gospel. He is married to Abigail and they have a beautiful baby girl.
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Mpho Moepadira
Mpho came to know Campus Outreach in 2016 in her first year at the University of Johannesburg through bible studies. She was really drawn to the Lord by His unconditional love for her as a sinner. It was only in 2017 that she gave her life to Christ. God used Campus Outreach to establish her in her faith through discipleship and learning the importance of sharing the Gospel. It was in her 4th year that she knew that she enjoyed building relationships with young ladies on campus and seeing God transform their lives. She decided to do an internship in 2020 with COSA before joining staff full-time in 2021.
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Nhlanhla (Lucky) Ntsevu
Nhlanhla grew up in a Christian household and where he legalistically understood the gospel as “do’s” and “don’ts” thus believed he could work his way to obtaining salvation. In his first year in 2017 at the University of the Witwatersrand, he was introduced to the gospel through Campus Outreach. He was invited to be part of a Bible study group, discipleship group, and be part of the CO community. He got to understand the gospel of grace and in his five years at university, he grew in his faith, in loving God and loving people. He is currently finalizing his masters (MSc) in GIS and Remote Sensing at Wits and looks forward to serving as a Campus Outreach full-time intern in 2022.
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Nqobile Ngoepe
Nqobile, born and bred in Pretoria, Mamelodi. She grew up in a Christian home, however she only made it a personal decision to follow Christ in 2012 where she started being discipled at a local church in Mamelodi. In her first year at the University of Pretoria, she got involved with Campus Outreach. She became more drawn to the ministry as CO continued pouring the good news into her while also seeing the great impact CO South Africa played in and outside of campus. Thus, in 2024 she felt the need to be part of the many that reach out to the lost and spread the gospel for the glory of God. Her vision as she interns is to fruitfully share the gospel to the lost while planting a seed for them to be labourers of it.
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Nyeko Baloyi
Nyeko grew up in a christian household but never had a personal relationship with God and had no understanding how a Christian was to live out their Christian life, outside of just attending Church. In 2022, after receiving a bursary, Nyeko made the decision to live for God because it was through Him that he received that bursary in his 2nd year of University. Shortly after, he was approached by a Campus Outreach staff member named Nhlanhla who invited him to a community of believers. At first, he was shocked to see so many young people living for the Lord and taking their faith seriously. He soon got connected to a church, along with a weekly bible study where he got to build a relationship with God and felt his faith was getting stronger. Now, Nyeko wants to share the Gospel that changed his life with students on the University campus and make disciples of all nations.
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Olivia Kamanga
Olivia was introduced to the ministry of Campus Outreach through the local church she was serving in and has faithfully labored and made disciples since joining the Campus Outreach staff team. She and her husband Wiseman met through the ministry and married in February 2021; in March 2022, they welcomed their son, Josiah Thembekile. Wiseman and Olivia are convinced about the significance of making disciples and its impact on their country. They are trusting God to use them to make disciples on the university campus with Campus Outreach South Africa.
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Phenyo Khwinana
Phenyo grew up in a Christian home and was a religious churchgoer. She came to know the Lord at the age of 15. She has since continued to journey with the Lord but it wasn’t until her involvement with Campus Outreach in her first year at the University of Pretoria that she got to be formally discipled. It was during this period that she learned & understood the importance of spiritual disciplines and that of community. Not only has she grown in her faith from being a part of the ministry but her heart to reach the lost souls has also deepened. She will be serving as a COSA resource staff intern.
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Pride Khumalo
Pride came to know the Lord in grade 8 after she had been told about Jesus Christ throughout her primary school years. It is only when she became part of Campus Outreach in her first year of university that the gospel started to make sense and became true in her life. God used community to help her come to an understanding of God’s grace and love in her life and the beauty of how Jesus Christ came to save an undeserving sinner like her. Through discipleship and community she saw how God truly wanted her to live her life in the continual process of sanctification. She is completing her qualification this year and will be a full-time Campus Outreach intern in 2022.
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Segametsi (Bridgette) Tsotetsi
Segametsi came to know the Lord in her first year of university through the ministry. She was challenged in her understanding of grace and how it is freely given and not something she has to earn. She was discipled over the years as a student, saw the benefits of having someone walk alongside her and help her grow in her faith. Her heart for ministry grew during her varsity years and after completing her studies she joined the COSA staff team in 2017 with the desire to be used by God on the university campus. She is currently serving as one of the Campus Team Leaders at the University of Pretoria.
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Themba & Kwanele Rasekutuma
Themba came to know the Lord in his first year at the University of Johannesburg through Campus Outreach. Through Bible studies, 1 on 1 discipleship and being challenged to read God’s Word for himself he wrestled through his understanding of Christianity and by God’s grace finally understood who Jesus is and what it means to have a relationship with God. He joined the COSA staff team in 2016 as an intern doing multimedia and discipleship, then went on full time with COSA from 2017 as campus staff at the University of Pretoria and currently serves there as one of the Campus Team Leaders.
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Vuyani (Vee) & Patricia Mini
Vuyani came to know the Lord through the ministry of Campus Outreach during his 1st year at the University of Johannesburg. It was at the end of 2011, at a student camp, that he was challenged in his understanding of the gospel and salvation being by grace through faith alone. He made the decision to know Christ personally and to follow him. Convinced of the Gospel, he spent the next 3 years being discipled as a student. At this time, he grew a desire to disciple and lead others and a desire for ministry. After graduating, he came into full-time ministry with CO in 2015 and has been on staff at Wits University for 6 years now. He is currently the Director of CO Wits.
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Wiseman Kamanga
Wiseman came to faith through the ministry of Campus Outreach while playing rugby at the University of Johannesburg. He and his wife Olivia met through the ministry and married in February 2021; in March 2022, they welcomed their son, Josiah Thembekile. Wiseman and Olivia are convinced about the significance of making disciples and its impact on their country. They are trusting God to use them to make disciples on the university campus with Campus Outreach South Africa.
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CO Johannesburg, South Africa
Campus Outreach South Africa exists to "Glorify God by Building Laborers on the Campus for the Lost World." We desire to bring the Gospel to university students and for God to raise up indigenous men and women who are mobilized into the church to live out a Christ-centered identity with a spirit-filled character and who are governed by a biblical worldview. The Campus Outreach South Africa staff team consists of 27 full-time staff members working on the campuses of Wits University, the University of Johannesburg, and the University of Pretoria.
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