Karibu: Trip to USA - Johan Cronje

14 January 2015

Trip to USA - Johan Cronje

The AFMIN Global Board Meeting in Colorado Springs, USA, and I was invited to attend.

Mount Rushmore

This was a new experience as I had never been to the USA before.

Buffalo

Before and after the meetings, the delegates were taken to do a bit of sight-seeing. We drove to the State of Dakota South where we got to see Mount Rushmore with the faces of the 4 USA Presidents carved into the mountain rock. One does not realise the extensiveness of that carving until one has actually seen it. Television and photography does not pay justice to this masterpiece. We also visited the Mount Rushmore National Park where I saw the buffalo for the first time.

Black Bear

Black bears, wolfs and deers are familiar faces in the neighborhood gardens. People are extremely friendly and are very helpful. They believe in themselves and no challenge seems to be too big for them.

I want to thank Kobus Grobler, my CEO that sponsored me on this trip. Will I return to the USA if such an opportunity comes my way again? Yes for sure, but this time I will trust God for the finances to make it possible for Alta to accompany me.
WHERE THERE IS A VISION, THERE IS PROVISION.

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ABOUT US

Johan was born in Bellville, Cape Town and spent most of his childhood in Pretoria, where he matriculated in 1968. He accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour in 1971 and was baptized in the Holy Spirit. It was here also that the Lord placed a calling on his life, which took him to the Apostolic Faith Mission’s Theological College.

Alta had accepted the Lord as Saviour at the tender age of 8 years old. From an early age, began to experience the Lord’s guidance in her life and she developed a love for prayer, especially praying directly from the Bible.

They were married in June 1975 and were blessed with three wonderful children, Jean-Pierre, Tanya and DeWett. Jean-Pierre is married to Genevieve. After a long battle with ill-health, Tanya went to be with the Lord in November 2006. The Lord’s faithfulness throughout her ordeal has increased Johan and Altas’ zeal to serve Him.

MINISTRY

Since completing Theological College, Johan have pastored various churches throughout South Africa. They were also involved in Christian education and Johan was Administrator of Psalmody Christian School from 2001 to 2003.

Johan met Tom Ingles of Psalmody International, in 1984 and began presenting this praise and worship course in various places. Teaching praise and worship as a lifestyle became the foundation on which their ministry was based. As a result, Johan and Alta foundered Praise Vision Africa, an organisation whose vision is to present praise and worship seminars to pastors and church leaders, throughout Africa.

In 1993, Karel Saunders invited Johan to minister on this subject in Zambia, Malawi and the DRC. Thus began their association with AFMIN. In 2006, the Lord clearly directed Johan to resign his associate-pastor position in the church in Cape Town, so as to concentrate fully on the ministry throughout Africa. Today Johan and Alta head the Tanzanian, Kenyan, Ugandan and Namibian projects on behalf of AFMIN.

Besides their work with Afmin, Johan and Alta lead a “household” ministry consisting of a group of spiritual sons whom they are fathering and raising through Biblical teaching and practical ministry, so as to prepare them to later father spiritual sons of their own. They also visit fellowships and other households within South Africa and Namibia, where they minister on subjects such as the Kingdom of God, Father/Son relationships, and the Orphan Spirit.