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Malawian, Stephen Lungu, (63) is one of AE’s most charismatic and powerful speakers, and one of the most sought-after evangelists in Africa today. He was appointed as AE’s CEO and International Team Leader as from August 2006.
Stephen preaches all over Africa and is a popular speaker in Australia, the United States, England and Europe. One of his special ministries is to prisons, where his testimony has changed the lives of hundreds of hardened criminals.
Born in Zimbabwe to a Malawian father and Zimbabwean mother, Stephen had a difficult childhood, being abandoned by his parents at the age of 6. In the years to follow, Stephen lived on the streets, eventually forming a gang of street children, known as the Black Shadows. Initially involved in crime, this gang later joined the political struggle in Zimbabwe against the “rebel regime”. Stephen was dramatically converted at a tent meeting one evening while with his gang on the way to petrol bomb a bank. His biography Out of the Black Shadows tells his remarkable story.
Stephen’s conversion heralded the beginning of an amazing turn-around in his life. He immediately began to go out onto the streets of Harare and speak and preach about what God had done for him, and was later ‘adopted’ by a white couple who taught him how to read and write and schooled him in the Bible.
In 1978, Stephen opened the Dorothea Mission in Malawi. He met Michael Cassidy when working for him as a translator during an AE mission, and joined AE in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1982. He was appointed as Malawi’s AE Team Leader in 1986. He is married to Rachel and the couple have five children. |
