The African Enterprise Leadership Training Centre (AELTC) in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, was founded in 2006 by AE Founder Michael Cassidy. It provides cutting-edge practical and theological training to lay people and clergy on a variety of topics aimed at equipping the African church to transform the cities of Africa for Christ.

Harnessing AE’s half-century of evangelistic and leadership-development experience across the African continent, the AELTC provides both on-site and distance-learning opportunities, often partnering with Christian institutions and organizations around the world, such as Moore College in Australia and 9Marks in the U.S., to provide world-class instruction.

Courses are designed so that Christians employed full-time either in ministry or in the marketplace can improve their skills and capacities in sessions of intensive or weekend instruction. The AELTC’s current emphases include biblical instruction of pastors from African independent churches, a Master Trainer program based on the exponential church-growth methods employed by churches in India, and a Youth Adventure Camp, to invest in high school and university-age students. In order to impact Christians who most need the training the AELTC offers, many pastors and laypeople, who have little income, are heavily subsidized. This allows the AELTC to contribute to the Gospel transformation of countless communities around South Africa and the wider continent which so desperately need biblically trained Christian leaders.