I was born in September of 1968 in Harrismith, a town in the Orange Free State of South Africa. 

In 1981 I finished Primary School in Harrismith and end of 1986 I matriculated at Hoërskool Generaal Hertszog in Witbank, Mpumalanga. During the latter part of my high school years, I experienced a distinct call from the Lord for the full time ministry.

After school, I studied theology at the AFM Theological Seminary, Aucklandpark and did one year national service as a chaplain at the Youngsfield army base, Wetton, Cape Town.
This was followed by almost two years as the associate pastor of an AFM assembly in Rondebosch-East (today AFM Kenwyn).

In 1993 I became the senior Pastor of AFM Cape Town, a small church in the city bowl of Cape Town. During the ensuing years I served as vice-chair of our Regional Children- and Youth Department as well as being a member of our Regional Committee. 

In 2003, for a short period, I became part of AFM Goodwood's pastoral team where I was responsible for the Goodwood region. 

I resigned from Goodwood to attempt a missional church plant in the City Bowl of Cape Town applying Seeker Sensitive principles and making use of research on Post Modernism. The post-modern, relativistic, slippery approach to truth coupled with a failing marriage led to fast spiritual decline, resignation from the ministry and a hope-destroying divorce. 

For the next two years, I became the personification of the lost son who squandered my inheritance on a life of the night far away from my Father's house. 

Mid-2007, on Paternoster's beach, I whispered a desperate prayer for the first time since 2005: "Lord, will you give me a second chance?"  Within two weeks, the Lord began answering this prayer. This marked the beginning of a seven year journey through a tough desert of restoration and cleansing. A time during which my new wife, who has been a Muslim for the first thirty years of her life, gave her heart to Jesus, was baptized in water and gloriously baptized in the Holy Spirit.

I rediscovered my Pentecostal roots and made a life-or-death commitment to Jesus Christ. We started in the back seats of a local assembly and slowly moved from pew to pulpit and from membership to ministry. The national church gracefully did their duty of ensuring that I return to the pulpit as a restored, spiritually and emotionally healthy person.

Since 2016, my wife and I have served as the senior pastoral couple of a medium-sized assembly in Elspark, Germiston, South Africa.