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To provide quality, contextual, Christ-centered, holistic education that empowers persons to serve the church, academy, and society in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.

Justo Mwale University (JMU) is an ecumenical training Institution that trains persons from various background and countries in various fields. Many students come from the Reformed and Presbyterian churches. At the beginning of 2014, the University started to implement a new strategic plan that was to guide it in the next five years. This new strategic plan takes into consideration the expansion of the University in its programme’s delivery. It is also expected that during this period (2015-2018, the University will transform into a fully-fledged University with initial four Faculties/Schools namely: Theology and Religious Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences, Education and Management and Business Studies. At the expiration of the previous plan, Justo Mwale has crafted a New Strategic plan 2024-2024 that thrives to succeed in a competitive environment with many players offering a similar product. Initially, the Institution started as a Theological training of Ministers of the Word and Sacraments for the Reformed Church in Zambia in February 1951, at Madzimoyo in the Eastern Province in Zambia.

In 1969, the ‘Reformed Church Theological College’, as it was called then, moved to Lusaka and in 1975, the College was officially opened and renamed Justo Mwale Theological College (JMTC) in honour of the first Zambian; Rev Justo Mwale, in the Reformed Church in Zambia to be ordained as Minister of the Word and Sacraments. In 1989, a multi-church College Board was instituted, and other churches with students at JMTC began to participate in the governance of the Institution.