Thank the Lord with us for Mukhanyo’s gifted team! But more people are needed for 2021 to serve within this growing ministry:
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Senior Lecturers: Two additional full-time lecturers are needed by January 2021 to serve Mukhanyo’s growing student body. All applicants must confess Mukhanyo’s Statement of Faith in teaching and practice. We welcome applicants to apply if they meet the criteria outlined in the job advert. Mukhanyo also welcomes partnerships with local and international churches/agencies who can send and support a Senior Lecturer to serve at one of Mukhanyo’s locations.

Programme Manager: This new position will coordinate the ThM programme to be facilitated at our Pretoria Centre as from next year. The ideal candidate will also serve as a Senior Lecturer. The applicant must affirm Mukhanyo’s statement of faith and share Mukhanyo’s organisational values.

Johannesburg Campus Manager: This gifted person will be responsible for the management and development of Mukhanyo’s growing Johannesburg Campus. The ideal candidate will also serve as a Senior Lecturer. The applicant must affirm Mukhanyo’s statement of faith and share Mukhanyo’s organisational values.

Lecturers in various areas: Additional part-time and full-time lecturers are needed by January 2021 to serve Mukhanyo’s growing student body. All Mukhanyo lecturers must affirm Mukhanyo’s statement of faith and share our organisational values. Please only apply if you meet the criteria outlined in the job advert.

Distance Site Tutors: Mukhanyo welcomes applications for new Distance Learning Support Centres across southern Africa.  Experienced church leaders are encouraged to submit an application to become a volunteer tutor and establish a local centre.

For more detailed information on each of these positions, please visit
https://www.mukhanyo.ac.za/vacancies.html.

​Prospective students are welcome to register for studies in 2021. Mukhanyo has a complete range of quality programmes for Bible education, including these accredited qualifications offered in various locations across Southern Africa:

• Higher Certificate in Bible Teaching (NQF level 5, 120 credits, SAQA: 115959)
• Higher Certificate in Church Ministry (NQF level 5, 120 credits, SAQA: 115961)
• BTh: Bachelor of Theology (NQF level 7, 360 credits, SAQA: 90738)
• BTh Hons: Honours in Theology (NQF level 8, 120 credits, SAQA: 90739)

 
To apply, phone or email the coordinator at one of the following Mukhanyo centres:

• KwaMhlanga Campus
  
  • 074 139 9348 or 074 137 7050
    
  • kwam@mukhanyo.ac.za
• Johannesburg Campus
  
  • 011 339 1223 or 078 600 9243
    
  • jhb@mukhanyo.ac.za
• Pretoria Centre
  
  • 012 004 1215 or 081 014 7614 
    
  • renzke.pretorius@mtc.ac.za
• Rustenburg Centre
  
  • 067 822 3442 or 071 625 5984 
    
  • eben.leroux@mtc.ac.za
• Durban Centre
  
  • 031 023 0043 or 067 256 6332 
    
  • antonio.coppola@mtc.ac.za

 
For information about Mukhanyo accredited theological qualifications, see https://www.mukhanyo.ac.za/programmes.html. Information about each learning centre is explained at https://www.mukhanyo.ac.za/learningcentres.html.

Mukhanyo trains church leaders for faithful ministry.

​Did you know that after completing Mukhanyo’s Bachelor of Theology (BTh) degree, a student will:

• Have a good knowledge of the contents of the Bible, both the Old and the New Testament as well as the Reformed confessions and the classical languages.
• Be able to prepare Reformed sermons and deliver these sermons in an appropriate way to a congregation.
• Play a moral and constructive role by developing and applying core Christian norms and values to contexts and to facilitate moral decision making and formation.
• Be able to critically compare and use Reformed theological concepts and disciplines to explore faith questions and proclaim the Christian faith in context, particularly the African context.
• Be able to identify, evaluate and develop personal faith, particularly in the African context, and be able to facilitate Christian pastoral ministry to individuals and communities, and to evaluate its effectiveness.
• Be able to promote, develop and evaluate reformed transformative leadership in a faith community.
• Be prepared to advance into the BTh Honours and further theological study.

Did you also know . . .

• That Ecclesiastes 1:9 states “there is nothing new under the sun” and Hosea 4:1 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (of God’s covenant with his people).
• This implies the great importance to know 2 000 years of church history so that you will be able to see through many of today’s many dissenting and false doctrines which have, through the centuries, been disproved as such.
• That this insight was highlighted by Rev Antonio Coppola, manager of Mukhanyo’s Durban centre, in an article in the July edition of the national magazine Joy! (as well as its Afrikaans version, Juig!).
• That African church history has for years been an important module at Mukhanyo. Several Mukhanyo lecturers, including Dr Brian de Vries and Dr Willie Zeze, have compiled an extensive study guide on this topic.
• That Mukhanyo lecturers are contributing Reformed articles to Joy! Magazine on a monthly basis.

France Mookisi is Reformed, has planted a number of churches, wants to plant more churches, and has realised that a high qualification is very important because people are ready to listen and follow someone who is properly trained and recognised. That is why he is one of Mukhanyo’s promising BTh Honours students.
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France is now completing his first of two Honours academic years. In some 30 years of pastoring he has concluded that proper training is important, not only to be credible, but even more so to grow in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus, thus able to preach with authority.
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From 1982 to 1983 he was sent to train for the ministry by a church which was a part of the London Missionary Society. He completed a two-year theological diploma with Southern Africa Theological College. That was when he surrendered his life to the Lord Jesus. He joined the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) to preach Christ and plant churches.
Now follows a list of church planting and preaching the Gospel: three churches in North West Province; studying at the AFM’s Central Bible College in Soshanguve; planting and ministering a church in Krugersdorp; a church plant in Magaliesburg, pastoring a church in Soweto and Freedom Park.

In 1996, France met a young pastor of the AFM who had studied at a Reformed Theological College. They instantly clicked, and this started a new journey for France to be introduced to Reformed theology. He enrolled for the BTh at John Wycliffe Theological College and studied there for four years (1996-1999). In 1998 he resigned from the AFM.

Subsequently the Curatorium of the Potchefstroom Theological School of the Reformed Churches offered him a candidacy in 2001. He wanted to study at the Potchefstroom University for MTh (New Testament) but did not have the finances to do so.
With the American missionary, Dr Ed Gross, he started a multicultural church in Pretoria – Hope Community Church. From this church, six pastors were raised; two of them studied with Mukhanyo. A hospice, home schooling program, skills training courses and an orphanage were started by this church.

During this time France was sponsored by some Reformed Churches around Centurion and Pretoria. But funds dried up and France joined the Department of Correctional Services as a chairperson of the parole board. That contract ended in 2019.

During these years, however, France mentored several young men in the East Rand who were involved in church planting but had no theological training. France then decided to continue his studies. He is now enrolled for BTh Honours at Mukhanyo. His immediate plan is to plant a church – a Reformed church – around Centurion and run an orphanage again.

He is presently helping out at the Magaliesburg AFM and community on Sundays. But this is an informal, unofficial sacrifice they are doing for the Lord. He and his wife Maggy are not members of AFM and he does not hold the status as pastor, but he wants to help them out because he has a vested interest in the church he planted years ago.
“My heart’s desire is to continue to plant churches where the Lord would open up opportunities. I also want to serve rural communities, informal settlements and poor places where pastors don’t want to serve because there is no means of sustaining them financially”.

“I also realise that the Reformed church needs to experience new strategies and methods relevant to the context of ministry; to try new things they have never tried before. The Reformed church needs to look afresh at context, liturgy and strategy for harvest relevant to the context”.

Mukhanyo will begin facilitating an international Master of Theology (ThM) degree programme as from July 2021 – or perhaps even earlier. We are thankful to announce this exciting news after much planning.

This major development was approved by Mukhanyo’s Board in September after years of preparation and discussions with the Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (PRTS) in America. This seminary (www.prts.edu) is an established Reformed theological education institution based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that is accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in North America.

Mukhanyo desires to see a new generation of scholars in Africa who are thoroughly biblical and who thoroughly understand the challenges of God’s church in Africa. This new partnership is the next step in seeing this vision realized. Mukhanyo’s principal, Dr Brian de Vries, comments: “Our hope with this partnership is that, by God’s grace and for His glory, we will be able to further equip the church leaders He is raising up in Africa. We hope to foster a new generation of pastors and teachers, masters and pastors who will faithfully serve the church in Southern Africa and defend it against false teaching”.

The Master of Theology degree is a 2-year programme that will be recognized by the South Africa Qualifications Authority (SAQA) at NQF level 9. The programme requires 30 credits in two formats, either 10 modules (coursework only) or 8 modules plus a research thesis. Themes to be chosen from are biblical studies, historical studies or systematic theology. Each of these themes build on themes in Mukhanyo’s BTh Honours qualification. Qualifying students from other institutions will, of course, also be welcome.
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This international qualification will be facilitated at Mukhanyo’s Pretoria Centre in Wonderboom South. Half of the modules will be taught onsite by visiting PRTS faculty, and the other half by Mukhanyo’s faculty, including a Senior Lecturer still to be appointed. Present projections predict about seven students starting in 2021, some from the current 17 students in Mukhanyo’s BTh Honours programme. It is expected that this number will continue to grow over the next few years.

Classes will be facilitated in a block/modular format. This approach will also serve students from various areas of South Africa and from across southern Africa. Tuition fees for 2021 have been set at R2 450 per module. Enrolled students may be eligible for a partial Mukhanyo bursary.

The Master of Theology degree of PRTS expands and deepens a student’s abilities in ministry. It is a rigorous research qualification designed for students with previous theological studies to help them take their learning to a higher level. It can be used as a terminal degree or as a transitional degree to additional graduate studies, particularly a PhD programme in religion or theology. More information about the ThM curriculum can be found at https://prts.edu/curriculum/master-of-theology/.

The Mukhanyo and PRTS communities are excited about this new partnership and the opportunities it provides for faithful churches in southern Africa. Church leaders in Africa can now pursue advanced-level theological education without leaving their families and ministries. Mukhanyo now joins the PRTS global network of faithful theological institutions around the world.

Also see PRTS's press-release at https://prts.edu/about/news/.