Luc Kabongo grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a Roman  Catholic family. He moved to South Africa as a refugee in 2002. He did his undergraduate studies in Philosophy and  Administration. He, then, pursued his post-graduate studies in Applied Theology and Missiology. He obtained his PhD in Missiology with specialisation in community development at the University of Pretoria.  He is the current Africa regional director of InnerCHANGE, a missional order among the socially marginalised. He is also a part-time missiology lecturer at the University of Pretoria.