Olave Snelling

Olave Snelling is Michael Cassidy’s sister and extremely close friend. She is a radio broadcaster and television producer and the chairperson of UK Association of Christian Broadcasters. She is an intercessor, African Enterprise UK Board Member for many years and...

Don Jacobs

Don Jacobs was a theologian, preacher, sociologist, anthropologist, high calibre missionary and missiologist. African Enterprise got to know him in the Nairobi ‘69 Mission where he interpreted for Festo Kivengere from Swahili into English. He became a firm friend of...

Ted Engstrom

Ted Engstrom was the Vice-President for many years and President for two years of international aid agency World Vision, before retiring in 1987. Ted was another significant mentor to Michael Cassidy. He was on the African Enterprise USA Board for over 35 years. He...

Edgar Brookes

Edgar Brookes was a South African parliamentarian and Professor of History at Natal University, Pietermaritzburg. A founding member of the South African Liberal Party and a human rights champion, he influenced Michael Cassidy considerably with the notion of “the...

Geoffrey Bromiley

Michael Cassidy’s professor in Church History at Fuller Seminary, Geoffrey Bromiley, was someone who brought perspective to the complexities and controversies within the history of the Church. An expert on the Reformation, Geoffrey’s great life work was the...

Patrick Duncan

Patrick (affectionately known as Pat) Duncan came as young colonial servant, post Oxford, to Basutoland. His father was Sir Patrick Duncan, the Governor General of South Africa when Jan Smuts was Prime Minister. He quickly became Michael’s childhood hero and Michael...