Founding President and visionary
Rev Prof Mangayi has, combined, 35 years of academic, research, and faith-based non-profit professional inter and multi-disciplinary experience. Currently, a Full Professor in Missiology (with specialisation in Local economic development and Urban Ministry), devoted to community-engaged research projects in urban poverty, urban homelessness, sustainable local community economic development, and adult education.
He writes inter- and transdisciplinary original research contributions with the aim of equipping the church, including mission agents, to engage in mission and development as well as social and ecological justice issues. He subscribes to a missiology that is biblical, contextual, transdisciplinary, and intentionally aimed at holistic transformation. He competitively published research with has national, continental, and global reach in ISI, Scopus, Scielo and DHET-indexed and accredited journals and book chapters, and also acts as a reviewer for NRF and theological journals such as HTS Theological Studies, in die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi (aosis@indieskriflig.org.za), including The South African Baptist Journal of Theology among others.
His research contributes new knowledge in the discipline of missiology and has inter- and transdisciplinary usefulness for scholars from disciplines such as social work, development, criminology, geographic information systems, economics and management, theology, and religion. He facilitates the dissemination of missiological research as the editor in chief of the esteemed Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology founded over four decades ago by the late Prof David Bosch.
SATIA was thus founded and structured to serve as a companion to guide and advise groups on how to circumvent existential challenges of the first three years by putting in place systems and procedures as backbones of community organisations.
SATIA is the first organization of its kind in the faith–based circle in South Africa.
We dream of local church projects, like Jesus, that will be committed to being, saying, and doing as an integral part of their mission task. We are servants in rural community development committed to working in partnership with church grassroots groups to facilitate the realization of this dream.