Vredendal op die Olifantsrivervalley and on the edge of little Namaqualand only has 16 000 inhabitants. The temperature soars into the 40’s but it cools off at night. Although the distance is only 160 km from Cape Town, the roads are very busy with large trucks going through to Namibia. The […]
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Training Pastors in Kampala, February 2018 The training session went very well at Kolping Hotel. It is a Catholic Institution and do not charge for the venue as long as I buy some food and drinks for the delegates. There were 20 people that Richard Ssendi gathered for the seminar. […]
Gwero, Zimbabwe – Apostle Andre Pelser It was a moment I will never forget. No microphone was needed, no band, no great platform with high back seats that look like thrones, no plush carpets, no pomp and circumstance, no flashy backdrops, no electronic devices, no glitter and no showmanship …just […]
The Eyes of Faith I preached in the dark in Kisoga, out in the bush because there is no electricity. We were held up on the way by a truck that got stuck in a dirt road. This made us late for the meeting. By the time we arrived it […]
Pastor Hyancinthe summarised the effect that my ministry had on the people in Lome, Togo, by saying: ‘It was like water on dry ground. We were thirsty to hear the Apostle and we are satisfied with his messages. He tells us things we know in a way we have never […]
Martyrdom & Genocide (Not for sensitive readers) A brief report compiled by Andre Pelser after visiting Uganda and Rwanda in January 2011/ These two topics would probably not sell any books or tapes, but they are realities we have to deal with. Among the first Christians they used to train […]
There was a movie many years ago about brave soldiers who flew in to rescue hostages from Entebbe Airport in Uganda. They came in under the radar screen and left before anyone knew what had happened. It was called, ‘Raid on Entebbe.’ It felt something like that to me going […]
I have never seen something like that advertised on any menu before anywhere in the world! So I was intrigued. Sardine omelette? I could not imagine what it would taste like. ‘What’s a sardine omelette?’ I asked the waitress. ‘You put da sardine in da omelette,’ she said. I […]
There is no summer, winter, autumn and spring in Nigeria: only a dry season and a rainy season. The climate is more or less constant throughout the year. August was part of the rainy season. It rained so much that some roads turned into rivers. There is no drainage and […]
Pastor Balloo summarised the three days of meetings in Palma, Mauritius in this way: ‘Apostle Andre was sent to us and he came, making no demands, and he refreshed us and the Lord blessed us in so many ways. The Island Rejoiced!’ When they took me to the airport after […]