the history of cosa

Campus Outreach South Africa (COSA) was originally founded in Gauteng in 2003 by a team of 24 American missionaries sent out from Christ Covenant Church (CCC) in Charlotte North Carolina. This team worked alongside several Local South African churches as a Christian interdenominational university campus ministry on the Gauteng University Campuses.

In 2012 Campus Outreach Johannesburg entered into a formal process to see the ministry be given over from the oversight and authority of CCC to Central Baptist Church in Pretoria (CBC). Subsequently the ministry was renamed Campus Outreach Gauteng. From 2012 until March 2020 Campus Outreach Gauteng operated under the joint authority of CCC and CBC as a university campus ministry under Central Baptist church. A long-term agreement could not be reached by CCC and CBC and subsequently CCC has engaged in a process with several Local South African Churches seeking to find a Local and Sustainable structure and model for the ministry to Build Labourers on the campus for the lost world under the authority of Local South African churches.

This has led to the formation of Campus Outreach South Africa NPC on 25/02/2021, that is governed by South African Local churches on the COSA board, collaborating together to see university campus movements built under local church authority.