No one was made to walk alone.

Let’s journey together toward wholeness

Through African Bible College’s Mentorship and Care Center, you can build the relationships and connect with the resources you need to experience holistic shalom, full flourishing.

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About us

We are here to be your safe space for growth and healing

We envision a campus that is spiritually flourishing, emotionally resilient, culturally rooted, and deeply restorative. By providing refuge, healing, and strength through Christ-centered support, we aim to empower you to thrive amidst life’s challenges. Our goal is to make care accessible to all, creating a community marked by hope, wholeness, and transformation.

The Flourish Center at ABC exists to provide holistic support–spiritual, emotional, relational, and psychological–to students and staff, integrating biblical wisdom with professional care.

Our Core Pillars

How we can help

Direction & Mentoring

Support to grow in your walk with God, build your professional skills, or receive leadership training.

Counseling & Support

Individual and group counseling for any struggles you face. Licensed therapist, pastor, and peer-group options.

Crisis Response

On-call support for urgent spiritual and emotional needs and response team for harassment and abuse reports.

The details

Who, what, where, when, and why?

The Flourish Center is open to all ABC students, staff, faculty and immediate family members. This includes the College, the Academy, the Hospital, and the Business Institute.

Central Campus Library

Weekdays 9:00am-3:00pm
Evening slots available for working staff

In-person and telehealth

English + ESL Support

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Marriage, Family & Community Support

Relational coaching for couples and families. Facilitating reconciliation, family systems counseling, conflict resolution, and community-based restorative practices that reflect African communal values.

Individual Counseling

Short-term and long-term options for individuals navigating anxiety, grief, trauma, identity, etc. Both licensed therapist and pastoral counselors available.

Referral Network

For specialized care that goes beyond what we can offer on campus, we work with therapists and clinicians through referral. We currently partner with House of Therapy, located in area 47.

Pastoral Care & Spiritual Direction

Discernment-focused sessions for prayer, scripture reflection, and calling. Can Monthly sessions for spiritual formation and discernment.

Restorative Circles

Group spaces for healing, storytelling, and peer encouragement (e.g., grief, burnout, spiritual doubt, leadership fatigue.)

Leadership Formation & Coaching

Equip emerging leaders with spiritual formation, emotional intelligence, and practical leadership skills for church, campus, and community contexts.

The Team

Your Support People

Director of Counseling

Yamikani Kalizang’oma
Campus Spiritual Director

For spiritual formation, grief counseling, and identity work

Psycho-Social Counseling

Annie Nkosi
Licensed Therapist

General mental health counseling and medical struggles.

Student Welfare

Christian Khuleya
Student Welfare Officer

First-contact for ABC College students, general welfare and counseling.

Pastoral Counseling

Steve & Kim Bradley
Emma Kalizang’oma
Glenn & Carol Hallead

Counseling with our resident and visiting Pastoral Care team members. Various specialities and concentrations.

Financial Freedom

Financial counselors’ names are kept confidential.

Counseling for all things financial: tuition struggles, budgeting, debt, gambling, etc. Don’t wait until you have a problem; talk to someone early!

Harassment Reports

Duwa Bakili
Dean of Women
Jeff Kumwenda
Dean of Men
Aubrey Jambo
Campus Police

We take harassment seriously; please report any incidents or any situations in which you have felt unsafe.

You’ll connect with our confidential intake team first, then be placed with a team member who meets your specific needs.

Reporting Sexual Harassment through the Flourish Center

At the African Bible Colleges, we believe every person is made in the image of God and deserves to be treated with dignity, safety, and respect. We are committed to cultivating a healing environment where students and staff can flourish emotionally, spiritually, and relationally. That includes taking seriously any form of harassment or misconduct. Thus, one of the important roles of the Flourish Center is to receive and respond to any violations.

What is sexual harassment?

Verbal conversation, remarks, jokes, or comments that are sexual or degrading

Physical contact or gestures that are inappropriate and/or unwanted

Stalking, coercion, or intimidation related to sex or gender

Sharing explicit content, in person or virtually

Pressuring someone into sexual activity

We’re here for you

Whether you’re fighting depression, want help to improve your budgeting skills, or need a confidential reporting line you can trust, the team at the Flourish Center has got your back.

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