| About the Church | | Church was founded in 2000.We started with fifteen members back then. Today we have a membership of three hundred and fifty. It's our main mission to carry out the GREAT COMMISSION of Jesus Christ. |
| | About Reverend Linders | 
Click to enlarge | | At the age of seventeen I accepted the Lord as my personal Savior,and
was baptized.After completing
two years of my three year teacher's diploma in 1976 ,I started
teaching as an unqualified teacher.In March 1976 I left South Africa
for Tanzania,to receive training in freedom fighting.It was during
THIS time that I neglected my relationship with God. In April 1976,
Shortly after eight comrades and myself crossed the border from
Tanzania into South Africa,to attack strategic points in my country,I
was flung to the ground.From my head down to my body and toes,I was
soaked in blood.At THAT moment I feared for the worse...thought I was
shot by the enemy,and was dying.Four days later I woke up in Tanzania
in one of our camps.I was informed by our platoon leader that ALL
eight of my comrades died in a land mine field,and that I was the ONLY
survivor.At THAT moment I realized that God came through for me.Even
though I have forgotten about Him,He NEVER left me.What was the odds
against nine people,who walk into a landmine field to come back
alive?I promised God that I would restore my relationship with Him,as
soon as I got back to South Africa.Two weeks before the June 1976
riots,I returned home,to aid the final preparations for the up rise.In
August 1976 I was expelled from teaching by the apartheid
government,and detained under the Internal Security Act.In between the
inhumane tortures I have suffered in detention,I had a lot of time to
find my God again,and to restore my relationship with Him.In fact,I
believe if it was not for HIS intervention during THIS time,I would
definitely NOT be alive today,to tell MY story.
Four months after I was released from detention in
May 1977,I joined a missionary group in the in Namibia,where I was
working among the bushmen(Khoi/San).For the ten years I was here, I
was teaching the bushman children to read and speak Afrikaans.When I left the mission in 1987,fifty children
and thirty five adults could speak Afrikaans,thirty five adults could
write and read in Afrikaans and we had a congregation of fifteen
members,who held services in a hut. Today,the Richtersveld bushman
community are spiritually and socially empowered,with a church AND
primary school. |
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