November 11, 2025

Dear friends, thank you so much for your support and prayer.

We have started the last three weeks of our year teaching, and the college is still going strong, and staff and students are persevering well to the end. Students are preparing for the External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA) in November, and staff are increasing their external studies over the Christmas break as they study for degrees, honours and master’s in theology.

We have had ongoing challenges as a team, with bereavements and more. However, our hearts are filled with thanks and praise as we look to Christ and thank him for all the work we have been able to achieve this year.

Twenty Years Thanksgiving Soweto and Johannesburg

We celebrated twenty years of JBC at our Soweto Klipspruit Campus on 23rd September. Sihle Mooi was our main speaker. We will celebrate at our Auckland Park Campus on 20th November (6 for 6:30pm).
Dave West will be our speaker.

Accreditation

We continue to write NQF 7 courses to be ready to apply to offer this course when it is available. It is hard to know when this will happen. QCTO is already taking longer than expected. We continue to seek funding to enable this to happen smoothly. We are also aware that the government has initiated a section 22 committee around the religious issues in SA. A Section 22 committee is an ad hoc committee established by the CRL Rights Commission under Section 22 of the CRL Rights Commission Act. Its purpose is to develop self-regulation mechanisms for the religious sector, specifically the Christian sector, to address issues like spiritual transgressions and protect congregants from abuse. The committee consists of religious leaders and is intended to facilitate dialogue, draft codes of conduct, and propose solutions to parliament for peer review, without having direct regulatory power itself. Please pray that the government does not step in with special legislation for churches alone, and that the professional body will be able to encourage and strengthen the church.

Charles (JBC);Kwatouta (Namibia, CBC); Patrick (Malawi, MMBI); Godfrey (Zimbabwe, IBT); Patrick (South Africa, ABS); Hastings (Malawi, GWM); Nat (JBC); Inocencio (Mozambique CFLB); Willium (Tanzania DBC)

Rodger Wimpey; Paul Passaro; Warren King; Nat Schluter

CELCOM 2025

We are expecting our largest ever ‘CelCom graduation’ with around 160 students being commissioned. This will include JBC’s 1000th graduate. The service is at 3pm on 28th November at Rosebank Union Church. Our speaker this year is Revd. Sibusiso Mdluli.

As we celebrate 20 years we will be awarding five partnership awards to: Dave West (for his role is starting JBC); Sihle Mooi (for his role in starting Soweto and Alex campuses); Rendani Baumgartner (for her role in starting Women Serving Christ course); to Godfrey and Nomsa Chikari (for faithful service at our sister college IBT for over ten years); to Patrick and Khumbo Chimbali (for faithful service at GWM for over ten years).

JBC Graduateness statement

We pray and work so that our graduates will be found: filled with the Holy Spirit, loving the Lord our God and their neighbour, and rejoicing with confidence in the Gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be committed to teaching and obeying God’s word faithfully at all times, proclaiming Jesus as Lord of all, and the only Saviour of the world in their lives and by their lips. Living in humility as God’s children, and seeking unity in the body of Christ, they will care for the broken and lost as they serve their local church and community with sacrificial purpose, always diligent in prayer.

Alex Kelvin Campus

The JBC board have given the go-ahead to raise funds for our new Alex Kelvin Campus build. We have a church in Alex willing to host us during the build, and we look forward to having a full campus to serve the townships and suburbs in the north of greater Johannesburg and beyond. If you would like more information, please email Nat directly at nat@jbc.org.za.

2026 Recruitment – Please Pray
Our recruitment team is working hard in reaching as many as possible potential students to enroll for our academic year of 2026. We have held roadshows, attended events and spoke on local radio stations FM. Please join us by sharing the work we do at JBC to others who might want to join the Class of 2026.