South Africa

Jennifer Carcagente

Jennifer was born and raised in New York on Long Island. She came to Charlotte, NC in 1997 to attend UNC-Charlotte and play softball. She became a Christian through the influence of Campus Outreach her sophomore year of college. From that point Jennifer was involved in leadership and discipleship by Campus Outreach staff. She graduated in 2001 and was a Special Education teacher at A.L. Brown High School. In December of 2001 she made the decision to go on staff with Campus Outreach in South Africa and begin a new ministry there. She left in November of 2002 and is currently the Assistant to the Director for Campus Outreach Johannesburg (COJ) Ministry.

The vision of Campus Outreach is to “Glorify God by Building Laborers on the Campus for the Lost World”. Since landing in South Africa in November 2002 COJ has seen God do so much in the lives of university students. Many of the student leaders that have been involved in the ministry are now leading their own Bible studies, which is a testimony to how God is working through discipleship and COJ is getting ready to graduate its first group of students into the world. Jennifer works full time in the administrative function of the ministry. In her free time she hangs out with girls from Wits, where she is leading some of the key student leaders. Jennifer also leads worship for the ministry and has been training and developing some key students to partner with her in this.

The staff have faced their share of crime and hard circumstances (knowing that this will not lessen) but believe that for South Africa, “Here there is no Zulu, Xhosa, circumcision in the bush, American, or any people groups, black or white, but Christ is all, and is in all”. (contextualized Col 3:11) May He continue to prove Himself faithful.

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Partnership Information

Campus Outreach
800 Fullwood Lane
Matthews, NC 28105
Acct: Jennifer Carcagente – South Africa