Why Zambia? The Strategic Opportunity Before Us

When people think about missions in Africa, they often think about sending missionaries to remote villages, unreached tribes, or hard-to-access nations. That work is still needed. But there is another strategic opportunity that is often overlooked: training faithful African pastors and church leaders who can be sent by their own churches into some of the hardest places to reach.

That is one of the reasons we are eager to return to Zambia.

Through Central Africa Baptist University and its network of churches, God is already raising up men who are being trained in the Scriptures, shaped in local churches, and sent out for gospel ministry. Some of these men have gone into places like South Sudan, Sudan, and other hard-to-reach areas of Northern Africa—places where Western missionaries often face significant cultural, linguistic, religious, and political barriers.

This is what makes the work in Zambia so strategic.

We are not simply going back to teach classes. We are going back to help strengthen a pipeline of gospel ministry. By teaching theology at CABU, serving in local church ministry, and partnering with Zambian churches, we have the opportunity to invest in men who may one day preach Christ in villages, cities, and nations we ourselves may never be able to enter.

In other words, support for this ministry is not just support for our family. It is an investment in African churches, African pastors, and African-led mission work.

The long-term goal is not dependence on foreign missionaries. The goal is healthy, self-sustaining, multiplying churches led by well-trained local pastors. We want to see churches strengthened in Zambia that can continue sending faithful men across Africa with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

That is why this work matters.

A classroom in Kitwe can have an impact far beyond Kitwe. A theology course at CABU can help prepare a pastor who will shepherd a church, train others, and perhaps carry the gospel into places where very few have heard the name of Christ.

This is the kind of work we are asking churches and friends to partner with us in: slow, faithful, church-centered ministry that, by God’s grace, can bear fruit for generations.