Africa Calebs

Burkina Faso

Jason and Lisa Bye
Jason and Lisa have a tremendous heart for Africans, specifically the country of Burkina Faso. Burkina is one of CBSI's newly opened countries and Jason and Lisa have committed to helping the leadership grow, new classes being trained and the ministry becoming self-sustaining.

Burundi & Kenya

John and Lynn Axelson
Discipleship and cross cultural outreach have been major interests of ours for several years. Planning for retirement from my medical practice has been an impetus to pursue these interests. Lynn has been a Teaching Director for CBS the past 12 years, and through CBS, we were introduced to CBSI whose goal is to see "everyone in the world ... in the Word." Our local church efforts in Burundi gave us a clearer picture of what to do and where to go. We have been Calebs to Burundi since November 2010, and first travelled to Burundi in February 2011. During that visit we were also given the opportunity to offer CBSI in Nairobi, Kenya, adding a second country to our partnership efforts and responsibilities. We plan to visit Burundi and Kenya regularly to work with and to support our national leaders in developing and maturing the CBSI efforts in their countries. We have a great team and look forward to working together to see "lives transformed by the Word of God."

Mozambique

Gene and Frances Shackelford
Gene and Frances have been involved with CBSI in Mozambique since its beginning in 2000. Since those initial classes in the capital city of Maputo the ministry has spread to 200 classes in 5 other provinces in the country. Two other provinces will be added in 2010. CBSI has had a major impact in the very rural “bush” areas where ancestral worship is the major religion. The Mozambican CBSI leadership have taken an active role in shaping the content and format of lesson structure in response to the needs of the various groups from educated literate classes in urban areas to barely literate groups in the bush. It has been a great investment of their retirement years to have had the joy of witnessing firsthand the life changing power of the light of the Word of God in dark areas.

Rwanda

Debbie and Paul Annett
Debbie and Paul were trained in 2009 and are Calebs to
Rwanda. They work with the Rwandan CBSI leadership, shepherding the leaders and providing council, adn they also help to train new class leaders. By the end of 2011, the goal is to have 10,000 Rwandans in CBSI Bible studies.

Tanzania

Stacey Davis
Stacey started working in Tanzania, Africa, with Vision Trust. Seeing how much CBSI materials could help in Tanzania, she became a Caleb in 2010 so that children and adults could have the CBSI materials to be able to study the Bible for themselves. She has a huge heart for the Tanzanian people, and has been instrumental in CBSI starting in that country.

Tanzania

Cathy Travis

Uganda

Bob Mann
Bob was trained as a Caleb in 2010 and has traveled several times to Uganda supporting the classes there and shepherding the leaders.