Christian Academy in Mozambique was started in September 1996 as a result of an expressed need for quality education from a Christian perspective, using an American curriculum. OMS International, Inc., took the initiative to start the school as an integral part of opening its new mission field in Mozambique. 

In a March 1996 survey trip by representatives of OMS International, 21 possible students were identified in a meetings with missionary parents who expressed serious interest in the start-up of a new school that would address perceived needs in areas of academic scholarship, quality of instruction and matters of discipline. A possible site was located, and the OMS team left with a commitment to return and open the school in September of that year for students in grades kindergarten through 12.

In answer to many prayers from Mozambique, England, Singapore and the United States, the Lord provided the materials for the school. They were collected at the home of CAM founding director Dr. Claude Meyers in Corvallis, Oregon, during the spring of 1996 and shipped to South Africa.

The school originally met in one side of a duplex, which provided sufficient classroom space and living accommodations for resident staff couple Larry and Susan Weil. Parents and friends loaned furniture so that classes could begin on September 12, just four weeks after Claude and Marilyn Meyers arrived in Maputo. The Meyers took 16 boxes of books as excess baggage on the plane so books would be available at the b, even if the container did not arrive on schedule.

The staff of CAM the first year was the Meyers and Weils as well as South African volunteers Lesley Harper and Thelma Leppert. Kenneth and Miriam Puckett came from the U.S. in March 1997 to help finish the first academic year on June 20, 1997.

Following a deposit payment to customs, the container was finally delivered to the school in November. Inspection of goods was done after delivery, and the balance of the customs deposit was refunded after the close of the first year in June. The first year ended with 18 students in grades K-11.

The second year ended with 33 students, with 12 of those in high school. Three students, Elisha Baker, Nathan Callender and Beth Restrict were CAM ’s first graduates, all of whom were accepted into university. Commencement exercises were held in the Anglican Church, and 15 organizations or individual families were represented from 8 countries. The staff of 12 constituted the equivalent of 7 full-time positions.

By the end of the third school year in June 1999, the enrollment was 36. Brother and sister Nelson and Barbara Marcondes from Brazil graduated in 1999 and enrolled in university in the U.S. The fourth year, Judith Mattheis and Helina Zewdu graduated and were accepted at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. That year, the one-year lease extension had a 25 percent increase in rent. The enrollment increased to 45 students before declining in 2000 due to tragic events in the community and unforeseen parent transition.

Administrators located another site for the school and began negotiations to purchase one of the two French school sites that were available. Funding letters were sent to missionary support constituents as well as parents of students. Papers were signed in July transferring ownership to OMS International, Inc. CAM moved into the building in July, and classes started in August. In less than, one year all funds were raised to pay for the building. Joshua Hulsey and Garreth Grottis were the first graduates from the new school site in June 2001. Mary Restrick graduated in June 2002 as the tenth student to complete studies at CAM .

Crystalyn Baker, Kara-Lee Ewert, Jennifer Telfer and David Restrick graduated in June 2004. Crystalyn and David were part of CAM when it started in 1996. Her parents hosted the first meeting during the March 1996 survey trip by OMS. December 2004 celebrated the fifteenth CAM graduate, Haline Freitas. The sixteenth CAM graduate in 2006 was Thiago De Souza, and in June 2007, Chelsea Berryman became the seventeenth graduate. God has done amazing things in the intervening years. His name is praised.