Four Days in Cape Town

We’re back in Pretoria after four very successful days of speaking engagements, dinners and meetings in Cape Town. I am leaving this morning (Monday) for a meeting in Johannesburg, speaking to the National Directors of Campus Crusade for Christ for 22 countries. Each of these men gives leadership to their country’s ministry, and this is likely to be a very strategic time of ministry. I was invited by Bekele Shanko, Director of Affairs for all the nations of Southeast Africa: Uganda, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Somalia, Madagascar, and South Africa. The National Directors of a number of other countries will also attend.

Our time in Cape Town was rich in ministry. We had a “sold out” breakfast with 105 executives where I spoke to them about their responsibility to “Step Up” as men and take the leadership of their homes, communities, and nation. It was an evangelistic message, but I gave them a charge to mentor the next generation of leaders … in the Afrikaner (European descendants), Black, and Coloured communities.

This country, just like America, is in deep need of godly men who are leaders. Bribery and corruption in business and government are as rampant as the crime in the streets. More than 60 police officers have been murdered this year.

I spoke on “Leaving a Godly Legacy” to 150 executives at a banquet, and shared the Gospel. We had dinner with a 4th-generation Christian Afrikaner couple who speak at Weekend to Remember conferences in South Africa. There are so many stories to tell … I’m thinking about doing a radio broadcast to share some of the stories from this journey.

We also had dinner with Americans Peter and Victoria Sorensen. Peter left an executive position on Wall Street to come here with his wife to minister in prisons. He told us about one prison with more than 7,000 inmates. The inhuman conditions in the prisons he described were beyond imagination, and most prisoners are men under the age of 30. Prison guards are underpaid and understaffed, with huge needs in their marriages. We’re looking into starting up HomeBuilders among these prison guard families. In Cape Town, 48 percent of the men have admitted to abusing their wives … emotionally, sexually, and physically.

Lots of needs. Vast needs.

We are too comfortable and complacent in America; my prayer is that we would not waste our lives living for ourselves. There are so many needs in this world. So many urgent human needs … among prisoners, orphans, marriages and families.

There is NO shortage of opportunity.

Pray for the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers.

Jake flies home tonight. Barbara, Rebecca and I are going to take three days to recuperate … I just need to go sleep!

Jesus is Lord over all the Earth … He alone is the solution.

Dennis