BACKGROUND,  TESTIMONY  and  BIRTH of  HARVEST   NET153  AFRICA       
 
At 15 years of age, I became the first member in my family to be born again. The Blood of Yeshua, my Saviour, cleansed me from all my sin. My relationship with the King of Love started. So did my journey of understanding His will, His ways and His Kingdom. Helping me on the road to discovering my purpose on earth, I received two new names from God, the first in 2000, the second in 2013. These names confirmed my true identity in the Spirit. It took me 14 years to become Pauline. I am still in the process of becoming Josephine. In Scripture, names often depict or prophesy the nature, character and calling of a person. That's why Simon received the name Peter from Yeshua.

ABOUT   US

From a young age, I loved to teach. So that’s what I did and still do most of the time ... teach and train, always with the goal of transforming lives. I taught on floors in servant quarters and in the dirt of squatter camps. I taught in class rooms and university lecture halls. I taught in coffee shops and in board rooms. I taught children, I taught youth, I taught adults. I taught one on one, and I taught hundreds at a time. I was born to equip and empower others. Over time I discovered that I have an exceptional love for the people of Africa. I see myself as a ‘mama’ of Africa.

I loved children and was looking forward to having my own. But an encounter with Abba Father in my thirties totally changed my perspective. During a corporate worship service God impressed on my heart that I would never have children of my own. I was so upset with God, because with all my educational training and love for children I thought I would have really been a good mother! This narrative unfolded more when Father God impressed on my heart that ... ‘my children' would be more than the children of the married one (Isaiah 54). I treasured this in my heart.

Life continued to be an adventurous journey with God. It led through being a Mathematics teacher and a University lecturer for many years, and then through dirty squatter camps and various disadvantaged rural areas. Many visits to different nations, countries and cultures continuously expanded and adjusted my theology and belief systems, while God all the time was shaping in me a heart for all nations. Over mountain tops and through valleys the way of the Lord led me, dying deaths of various kinds (loosing friends, reputation, possessions, properties, health, etc), even to the point of looking physical death right in the face more than once.  The trials and the tests, the forsaking of all, the joy and the pain, the purifying flame of His love, all had its purpose ... to prepare and position me for a time such as today. 

On 14 February 1999, I answered the call of God into full-time ministry during a very unusual encounter.  During a large international conference that our local church hosted, I joined those who went to the front to worship. Right in front of the pulpit, the Spirit of God pinned me to the ground for hours. I was lying flat on my back, in front of thousands of attendees. How embarrassing! The message started. Someone covered me with a cloth. The well known overseas speaker preached from Isaiah 6, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?’  Stuck to the ground, I experienced a life-changing vision from God in which He called me to serve Him unconditionally. I responded that I would be willing to go anywhere and do whatever He would ask of me. During the encounter I could smell flesh burning (like a barbeque). I understood that my life was the living sacrifice that day, as I lay there being consumed on the altar of God.  When they picked me up later on, I was still so overwhelmed by God’s presence that for hours afterwards, the only words that could proceed from my lips were:  ‘Yes, yes, yes ... !’  This supernatural experience with accompanying promises from God, was etched into my spirit forever.  

Ten months later, I resigned my secure position and stepped out of the boat onto the unknown waters. It was 1st January 2000, the first day of the new millennium. For the first time in my life I was unemployed. Saying goodbye to the ivory towers of university lecturing and job security, I stepped into the uncertainty of not knowing where my next cent would come from. Simultaneously I stepped into the dirt of poverty-stricken squatter camps. For the first time I understood what it meant to be totally dependent on the Holy Spirit. It was scary, to say the least. All I could do was cling to God and to His personal word and promises to me received in the vision I had while being pinned to the ground. I trusted in His love, His faithfulness, His direction and His provision. The first test of radical obedience came when I was ‘summoned’ by God five months later to attend a Bride of Christ conference in Canada. I had planned to clear some debts with these funds, but fortunately decided to rather obey God. The time in Canada turned out to be life-changing.  My first taste of severe spiritual opposition came shortly after, when my pension funds were unduly withheld from me for almost a year. These funds were released at the 11th hour at the end of the 11th month, days before the bank was to repossess my property. 

My ‘walking-on-water missionary days' lasted close to 14 years. During this time I travelled extensively, both nationally and internationally. I spent most of my time amongst orphans and vulnerable children in rural areas. It would not be unusual for me to leave on a 2- or 3-month journey, having merely a quarter tank of fuel in my vehicle. God would provide as I would proceed. While playing with these little ones in the dirt, showering them with the love of Yeshua, I would wrestle with God for national solutions to a multitude of overwhelming problems I would encounter daily: Unimaginable levels of poverty, immorality, depravity, substance abuse, thousands of fatherless or abusive-father households, dire needs everywhere, many dying prematurely, multitudes of orphans, vulnerable and abused children everywhere!  From this was birthed Children's Advocate Network Africa (CANA), an accreditation system for orphan care in Africa. 

My season of regular involvement in squatter camps ended in 2013, when Father God pulled me back into more formal education environments again. I had the privilege to work with NGO’s and Departments of Education in various provinces in In-Service Training programmes for Mathematics Teachers in rural areas. I call these my ‘paid missionary days’. This season ended in 2018. 

Fast forward to February 2021. It is now 21 years after I left my job at the university, and exactly – almost to the day - 22 years since my calling, when I was pinned to the ground. The entire world has changed. Global lockdowns started in March 2020. Masks and social distancing became the order of the day. Fellowship is limited and almost no travelling is allowed. Yet in the midst of all this chaos, confusion and uncertainty, YHVH God is faithfully active and intimately engaged in the lives of His people. Just like for many other sons and daughters, the Waymaker - Promise Keeper God turned an uncomfortable and challenging time of restrictions into ... a ‘birthing chamber’. 

Who would have imagined that a global lockdown could become God's global ‘labour ward’! Amidst unprecedented shakings (birth pangs) upon the earth, many a holy (i.e. uncommon) ‘thing’ was birthed. New Heavenly assignments and mandates were received, each uniquely reserved and destined for a time exactly such as this: The beginning of the great Harvest, the final ingathering before the end of this age.

Yeshua, our Saviour was born in The Stable around 4BC. 

HARVEST NET153  AFRICA was born in The Shack in the year 2021.  

THE  HNA  DREAM

If you can see it, you can build it! 

For a moment allow your imagination some wings.  Come and dream with us.  And then ... come and build with us.

Envision our continent AFRICA from God’s perspective ...   

•  An Africa full of light ... lit up with the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Yeshua haMashiach, Jesus Christ, beaming forth from the continent (2 Cor 4) 

•  Children of Africa being saved, taught and discipled by the Lord Himself, co-labouring with His Angels and His continental labourers, the Fishers and Fathers (Isa 54) 

•  Africa filled with God-fearing leaders who righteously govern and build their nations. Africa filled with mature spiritual fathers and mothers, who care for, equip and empower believers to become mature sons of God. They are trained to individually and corporately do the works of God. No disciple is building his own earthly ministry or ‘kingdom’. All united in building God’s house ... with living stones.

•  An Africa passionately in love with her Saviour Yeshua, filled with the Holy Spirit, living in the fear of God, fulfilling her redemptive calling of being worshipping warrior,  provider and bread basket of the world and end-time place of refuge for nations. She has been freed from generational and systemic witchcraft, ancestral worship and idolatry, all resultant curses of poverty, lack, hunger and starvation have been broken. 

•  Her mind is renewed by the Word of God, her mindset and mentality have changed. She has been delivered from orphan, victim, entitlement and poverty spirits. She now walks in the wisdom, blessing, favour and fruitfulness of God. She no longer begs for bread, but labours productively, lending unto many, borrowing from none. 

• Built afresh on Godly foundations and Biblical morals, Africa is trained, skilled, equipped and empowered to lead productive, fruitful and responsible lives, impacting all spheres of life and impacting other nations of the world. Her wastelands have become fruitful fields. Sheep nations flock to her to invest in and partner with her. She has become strong to resist manipulative, controlling, abusive exploiting nations and worl leaders.

•  Africa praises and worships God. Holy worship arises from homes, villages, open fields and stadions.  Age-old principalities and powers have been dispelled and displaced. Africa opens her gates for the King of glory to enter in. The Deliverer, King of kings, Lord of lords is welcomed in her midst. Dark places in cities, towns, villages and slums are transformed by the Light, Power, Love, Fire, Presence and Glory of God. Africa becomes a resting place for YHVH, a place where He tabernacles amongst His people. 

•  Thousands of equipped and discipled believers - connected, united, and labouring together forming a huge Kingdom Net - are effectively gathering in a great Harvest of souls. These disciples have themselves been lifted from generational despair and poverty, as they have not only been equipped spiritually, but have also been exposed to training opportunities in life skills development, job creation, food production, basic financial training, and other life-empowering programmes to ensure victorious Kingdom living. They are operative in every sphere of society, actively labouring together with the Lord of the Harvest. 

•  Isaiah 54 is being fulfilled in Africa. The ‘barren one' sings for joy. She shouts aloud, her children being countless and all of them being taught and discipled by the Lord of Hosts, who is both ... Husband of Africa and ... Lord of the Harvest. 

• A huge continental Africa Fishing Net and Kingdom Support Network have been prepared and put into operation for the greatest catch of Fish ever. An end-time Fisher Company - supported by an end-time Kingdom Network - is prepared and ready for the mighty end-time Move of God. This Move of God will bring in the fullness of the number of the redeemed, for the glory of The Lamb of all ages. He will receive His full reward from Africa ... the 153 multitude of Fish. 

•  If the witness and work of twelve ordinary disciples (who became apostles or sent ones) could reach almost the entire world, just imagine how much more thousandsof present daytrained and dedicated  24|7|365 Harvesters or Fishers of men  across many cities, towns, villages and rural areas could accomplish! More so with all present day tools and technology at our disposal. Yeshua promised, if we would believe in Him, we would do even greater things than He did  (Joh 14:12).