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Welcome to Read With Me September at Mama Africa Book Box in partnership with YouVersion Bible App

Read Scripture together, explore carefully selected Christian reading plans and grow with a continental community of readers, families, ministry leaders and believers across Africa.

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SEPTEMBER 2026 Christian Bible Reading Plans for Africa
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African Christian Voices Take Centre Stage in Read With Me’s Continental Reading Club

September 2026 brings together 17 African Christian authors from three countries through Read With Me, in partnership with YouVersion East Africa.

Read With Me September 2026 featured African Christian authors
Read With Me · September 2026 African Christian voices meeting readers through Scripture, testimony and lived experience.
17African Christian Authors
3African Countries
18Bible Reading Plans
6Reading Categories

NAIROBI, KENYA — September 2026 — Mama Africa Book Box (MABB), through its Read With Me initiative, has unveiled its September 2026 selection of Bible reading plans, bringing African Christian voices to readers through the YouVersion Bible App.

This month’s collection features inspiring plans across Young Adults, Family & Gender, Business & Leadership, Christian Living, Biographies & Testimonies, and Mental Health. Together, the plans speak into ordinary, and sometimes very complicated places of life: choosing relationships wisely, waiting for God, navigating burnout, preparing for marriage, finding purpose after retirement, receiving mentorship, recognising God’s voice and learning to live faithfully when culture is pulling in another direction.

The September Read With Me selection brings together 17 African Christian authors from three African countries, creating an opportunity for readers across Africa and beyond to encounter Scripture through voices, experiences and questions that emerge from the continent.

Young Adults + Family

From Friendship to Burnout, Marriage to Mentorship

For young adults, September begins with questions of identity, relationships and direction.

Dr. Muthoni Omukhango explores the freedom of refusing to shape one’s life around cultural approval in The Liberty of Being Unfashionable. Patrick Omukhango examines relationships that restrict rather than strengthen us in Snare Friendships: Recognizing Relationships That Bind You, while Jackline Ingasian invites readers to grow in discernment through Hearing God's Voice and Following His Direction.

The Family & Gender category turns towards relationships, marriage and the deeply personal journey of believing God for children.

In Discerning a Spouse God’s Way, Patrick Omukhango explores biblical wisdom for one of life’s most consequential decisions. Titus Otieno’s Seven Keys for Engaged Men speaks to men preparing for the covenant and responsibility of marriage. Doris Mitti, meanwhile, walks alongside women and couples in Waiting With Hope for Those Believing God for a Child.

These are the questions people are already carrying into churches, homes, friendships and quiet prayers.
Read With Me September 2026 community and authors
September’s Read With Me selection connects African Christian authors with readers through the YouVersion Bible App.
Business & Leadership

Faith That Goes to Work With Us

September’s Business & Leadership selection explores what happens when purpose meets process—and when leadership remains teachable.

Richard Mwebesa’s Embracing God's Process, Purpose, and Power encourages readers to recognise that God’s preparation is often as significant as the destination.

In Called to Be Mentored - Mentoring Series, Kingston Ogango turns attention towards the often-underrated discipline of allowing others to teach, shape and challenge us.

And Dr. John Mbugua’s Retirement Is Not the End asks whether retirement is really withdrawal from purpose—or simply another season in which wisdom and experience can still serve others.

Christian Living

Faith for the Everyday Believer

The Christian Living category focuses on the language we use, the seasons in which we wait and the truths that bring us closer to God.

Valerian Vanessa’s The Beauty of the Winning Language considers the relationship between words, faith and perspective.

Rehema C Batti, in The Waiting Well, speaks into a spiritual discipline few people volunteer for: waiting. The plan invites believers to consider how seasons of delay can become seasons of formation rather than frustration.

Richard Mwebesa returns with Levers of Truth, exploring principles designed to strengthen Christian maturity and intimacy with God.

African Christian reading and discipleship community
Read With Me makes room for testimony, lived experience and discipleship through African Christian voices.
Biographies & Testimonies

When Testimony Becomes Discipleship

Read With Me continues to make space for personal stories because sometimes we understand a biblical truth differently after seeing how somebody else had to live it.

The September Biographies & Testimonies selection includes Rooted in Love, Raised by Grace and The Gap Beneath the Surface by Zinhle Buthelezi, alongside That Nudge was God: Learning to Pay Attention by Dr. Muthoni.

Together, these plans explore family, grace, unseen struggles and the subtle ways God can guide a life.

That Nudge was God particularly invites readers to pay closer attention to those moments that are easy to dismiss—the inner prompting, unexpected conviction or quiet direction that, in retrospect, may have been God leading all along.

Mental Health

Making Room for the Weary Heart

Mental and emotional wellbeing also receives intentional attention in September.

Alison Kiriinya’s Steady Hearts in Shaky Seasons: A 5-Day Journey Through Psalm 37 takes readers into Scripture for stability when circumstances feel anything but stable.

Jackline Ingasian addresses emotional exhaustion through Rekindled: Encourage Weary Hearts Battling Burnout, while Angela Nsimbi’s Find Wholeness Beyond Rejection: The ‘Unloved’ Wife speaks into rejection, identity and the journey towards emotional and spiritual wholeness.

The aim is not to pretend that a devotional removes every difficult circumstance. Rather, these plans create room for Scripture to enter the places where people are already wrestling, grieving, waiting, questioning and rebuilding.

September 2026 Reading List

18 Plans. 6 Categories. One Reading Community.

Young Adults

The Liberty of Being Unfashionable — Dr. Muthoni Omukhango;

Snare Friendships — Patrick Omukhango;

Hearing God's Voice and Following His Direction — Jackline Ingasian.

Family & Gender

Discerning a Spouse God’s Way — Patrick Omukhango;

Seven Keys for Engaged Men — Titus Otieno;

Waiting With Hope for Those Believing God for a Child — Doris Mitti.

Business & Leadership

Embracing God's Process, Purpose, and Power — Richard Mwebesa;

Called to Be Mentored — Kingston Ogango;

Retirement Is Not the End — Dr. John Mbugua.

Christian Living

The Beauty of the Winning Language — Valerian Vanessa;

The Waiting Well — Rehema C Batti;

Levers of Truth — Richard Mwebesa.

Biographies & Testimonies

Rooted in Love, Raised by Grace — Zinhle Buthelezi;

The Gap Beneath the Surface — Zinhle Buthelezi;

That Nudge was God: Learning to Pay Attention — Dr. Muthoni.

Mental Health

Steady Hearts in Shaky Seasons — Alison Kiriinya;

Rekindled: Encourage Weary Hearts Battling Burnout — Jackline Ingasian;

Find Wholeness Beyond Rejection: The ‘Unloved’ Wife — Angela Nsimbi.

September does not require us to read everything. It simply invites us to begin somewhere.

Pick a category. Choose a plan. Open your Bible App. And read with us.

Pick a Plan: September 2026 List

Young Adults

Explore three Bible-based reading plans for young adults on identity, friendships and hearing God clearly. Read individually or journey through the plans with friends, a youth fellowship or a trusted mentor.

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Identity, Relationships and Direction for Young Adults September’s selection encourages young adults to resist unhealthy pressure, choose relationships wisely and grow in confidence when discerning God’s direction.
3 Reading Plans
Snare Friendships YouVersion reading plan
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Friendships

Snare Friendships: Recognizing Relationships That Bind You

Patrick Omukhango

Examine friendships that restrict growth, weaken conviction or create unhealthy bonds, and learn to pursue relationships that encourage wisdom, freedom and godly maturity.

  • Recognising unhealthy relational patterns
  • Setting wise friendship boundaries
  • Choosing relationships that strengthen faith
Hearing God's Voice and Following His Direction YouVersion reading plan
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Guidance & Discernment

Hearing God's Voice and Following His Direction

Jackline Ingasian

Grow in biblical discernment as you learn to recognise God’s leading, respond in obedience and follow His direction with greater confidence.

  • Recognising God’s leading
  • Testing direction through Scripture
  • Responding with faith and obedience
Pick a Plan: September 2026 List

Family & Gender

Explore three Bible-based reading plans addressing marriage discernment, preparation for marriage and trusting God through the journey of waiting for a child. Choose a plan and begin reading on the YouVersion Bible App.

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Faith for Marriage, Preparation and Parenthood Read individually, with your spouse or fiancé, as a family, or with a trusted accountability community.
3 Reading Plans
Seven Keys for Engaged Men YouVersion reading plan
02 Reading Plan
Engagement

Seven Keys for Engaged Men

Titus Otieno

Prepare intentionally for marriage by examining the character, responsibilities and spiritual foundations that help a man enter covenant with maturity and purpose.

  • Preparing for covenant marriage
  • Growing in responsibility and character
  • Building a Christ-centred foundation
Waiting With Hope for Those Believing God for a Child YouVersion reading plan
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Parenthood

Waiting With Hope for Those Believing God for a Child

Doris Mitti

Walk through a prayerful journey of faith, hope and encouragement for women and couples trusting God for the gift of a child.

  • Hope during seasons of waiting
  • Prayer, Scripture and faithful expectation
  • Trusting God while pursuing wisdom
Pick a Plan: September 2026 List

Business & Leadership

Explore three Bible-based reading plans on embracing God’s process, receiving mentorship and finding continued purpose in later seasons of life. Grow in leadership, wisdom and faithful stewardship across every stage of your journey.

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Purpose, Mentorship and Faithful Leadership Read individually, with colleagues, as a leadership team, or within a Christian marketplace and professional community.
3 September Plans
Called to Be Mentored Mentoring Series YouVersion reading plan
02 Reading Plan
Mentorship

Called to Be Mentored - Mentoring Series

Kingston Ogango

Discover the value of being teachable, receiving guidance and allowing trusted mentors to help shape your character, calling and leadership journey.

  • Developing a teachable spirit
  • Receiving wisdom from mentors
  • Growing through accountable relationships
Retirement Is Not the End YouVersion reading plan
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Legacy & Purpose

Retirement Is Not the End

Dr. John Mbugua

Reframe retirement as a new season of purpose, contribution and faithful stewardship rather than an ending, and consider how God can continue to use your experience and wisdom.

  • Purpose beyond formal employment
  • Stewarding experience and wisdom
  • Building a meaningful legacy
September 2026

Missions, Devotionals & Pastors

Bible reading plans for pastors, ministry leaders, missionaries and believers seeking deeper devotion, spiritual formation and sensitivity to the presence, purpose and guidance of God.

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Grow in God’s Presence, Purpose and Spirit A fresh September selection for ministry, missions, devotion and pastoral growth is being prepared.
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September 2026

New Reading Plan Titles Coming Soon

The September selections for Missions, Devotionals & Pastors are being finalised. Please check back soon for the new YouVersion reading plans and links.

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Pick a Plan: September 2026 List

Mental Health

Explore three Bible-based reading plans offering encouragement for emotional strain, burnout, rejection and seasons of uncertainty. Find biblical wisdom for steadiness, renewal, hope and wholeness.

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Find Hope, Strength and Emotional Renewal Read personally, with a trusted friend, in a support group, or within a Christian discipleship and accountability community.
3 September Plans
Rekindled: Encourage Weary Hearts Battling Burnout YouVersion reading plan
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Burnout

Rekindled: Encourage Weary Hearts Battling Burnout

Jackline Ingasian

Receive biblical encouragement for exhaustion, emotional weariness and burnout, and rediscover rest, renewal and strength in God.

  • Recognising signs of burnout
  • Resting in God’s presence
  • Renewing strength and hope
Find Wholeness Beyond Rejection: The Unloved Wife YouVersion reading plan
03 Reading Plan
Rejection & Wholeness

Find Wholeness Beyond Rejection: The ‘Unloved’ Wife

Angela Nsimbi

Explore the pain of rejection and discover how identity, emotional healing and wholeness can be rebuilt through God’s love, truth and restoring grace.

  • Healing from rejection
  • Rebuilding identity and worth
  • Finding wholeness in God’s love
Pick a Plan: September 2026 List

Christian Living

Explore three Bible-based reading plans on words, waiting and truth. Grow in practical faith, patient trust and a deeper understanding of the biblical principles that shape everyday Christian living.

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Grow in Truth, Patience and Faith-Filled Living Read personally, with friends, in a small group, or as part of a Christian discipleship and accountability community.
3 September Plans
The Waiting Well YouVersion reading plan
02 Reading Plan
Waiting & Trust

The Waiting Well

Rehema C Batti

Learn how to wait on God with hope, patience and spiritual attentiveness, allowing seasons of delay to become seasons of formation rather than frustration.

  • Trusting God’s timing
  • Growing through seasons of waiting
  • Choosing hope and faithful obedience
Levers of Truth YouVersion reading plan
03 7 Days
Truth & Growth

Levers of Truth: 7c's That Reveal Him & Get Us Closer

Richard Mwebesa

Explore seven biblical principles that strengthen your walk with Christ and help you grow in freedom, maturity and steadfast faith.

  • Growing in confidence and commitment
  • Developing courage and consistency
  • Standing firm in biblical truth
Pick a Plan: September 2026 List

Biographies & Testimonies

Explore three true-life journeys of faith, identity, family, hidden struggles and spiritual attentiveness. Learn from personal stories that reveal how God works through ordinary lives, difficult seasons and moments that invite deeper trust.

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Discover God Through Real Stories of Faith Read personally, with friends, in a small group, or as part of a testimony, discipleship and spiritual-growth community.
3 September Plans
The Gap Beneath the Surface YouVersion reading plan
02 Reading Plan
Hidden Struggles

The Gap Beneath the Surface

Zinlhe Buthelezi

Look beneath outward appearances and consider the unseen gaps, wounds and questions that shape our inner lives, while allowing God’s truth to bring honesty, healing and restoration.

  • Looking beyond appearances
  • Facing hidden wounds honestly
  • Finding healing in God’s truth
That Nudge was God: Learning to Pay Attention YouVersion reading plan
03 7 Days
God’s Guidance

That Nudge was God: Learning to Pay Attention

Dr Muthoni

Learn to recognise the gentle promptings of God, pay attention to His guidance and respond with faith when He directs your steps in ordinary and significant moments.

  • Recognising God’s promptings
  • Learning spiritual attentiveness
  • Responding with obedience
Meet the Team

Read With Me Facilitators

A continental reading movement supported by a committed team. Meet the facilitators serving across programmes, outreach, publishing, media, YouVersion administration, training and community engagement.
Patrick Omukhango 02
Media, Research & Development Director

Patrick Omukhango

Leads media strategy, research, innovation and development support.

Jackline Ingasian 03
Programmes Coordinator

Jackline Ingasian

Coordinates reading programmes, schedules and participant engagement.

Adnah McKenna 05
Head of Outreach, Print-on-Demand

Adnah McKenna

Supports print-on-demand outreach and author-reader engagement.

Valerian Nandujja 06
Administrative Assistant, Publishing

Valerian Nandujja

Provides publishing administration and programme support.

Milkah Mwangi 08
Administrative Assistant, Media, Translations & Rights

Milkah Mwangi

Supports media, translations, rights and communication administration.

Mercy Taaka 09
Administrative Assistant, Authors Training & Empowerment

Mercy Taaka

Supports author training, empowerment programmes and participant follow-up.

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