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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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Abby Erschen
Abby was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and graduated from The University of Kansas with a degree in Visual Art Education. She came to know Christ her sophomore year of college and began to grow a heart for knowing Christ and making Him known. Through her involvement with Student Mobilization at KU, she was able to learn about God’s heart for making disciples of all nations. She is excited to continue to grow in her relationship with God and live out His mission in South Africa.
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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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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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Jennifer Cates
Jenn grew up in a town in south Texas. Although she grew up knowing the name of Jesus and a few Bible stories, she did not understand what it truly meant to have a relationship with God through Jesus until the summer after her freshman year at the University of Missouri. While at Mizzou, she studied Health Science Pre-professional, and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma Theta Chapter. Through the campus ministry of Student Mobilization, she learned a lot about what it means to follow Jesus and make disciples. Because Jenn was impacted by the gospel in college, she is really excited to be a part of the CO LEAD Team in Johannesburg, South Africa. Jenn cannot wait to see what God continues to do in and through her life. She is excited to see the Kingdom of God grow in the city of Johannesburg!
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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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Kennedy Froebe
Kennedy was born and raised in Independence, Kansas. She came into a relationship with God during her freshman year at the University of Kansas when an older friend in her sorority shared the gospel with her. Through discipleship and attending Student Mobilization’s winter conferences and summer projects, God has grown her heart for Him and His mission to make disciples of all nations. The truth that the harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few continues to remind her of the great joy it is to know God personally and the need of laborers worldwide so that others may come to know Him. She is excited to be a part of the CO LEAD staff and labor alongside the long-term staff team in South Africa.
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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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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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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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Tiffany Mullis
Tiffany was born to Campus Outreach missionary parents in Bangkok, Thailand. She moved to Atlanta and came to Christ in the sixth grade. Growing up, Tiffany could see how her parents’ love for Christ shaped the way they loved one another and served those around them. After studying Romans 12 at school, she desired for God to transform her heart and wanted to have a relationship with Him. A few years later, Tiffany graduated with a degree in Recreational Therapy from Clemson University. During college, Tiffany went to several CO New Year’s Conferences. There, she saw the impact on the world of being faithful to share the Gospel and study God’s Word with others, and He gave her a passion for being part of what He was doing to reach people across the globe. Tiffany is excited to serve with CO LEAD and see God work in the lives of people in Johannesburg, South Africa!
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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 & Olivia Kamanga
Wiseman came to faith through the ministry of Campus Outreach while playing rugby at the University of Johannesburg. 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. They 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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