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Written by COTN Administrator
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 David was born in the Transkei, where his father was a Methodist minister, and was schooled in Johannesburg. Carol and David are dedicated to their family of two children, their spouses and four grandchildren. David loves walking on the beach to relax, and has a keen interest in media, communications and design technology.
David and Carol were founder members of the first COTN church in Africa - New Creation Family Church in Johannesburg, South Africa. They have been charged with restoring the truth of the Servant love of Jesus to the Bride of Christ. David is part of the International Apostolic Leadership of COTN. He is also an internationally published author and holds a Doctorate in Ministerial studies. David operates in the office of Apostolic Evangelist and has a strong emphasis on growing and encouraging sons and daughters to reach their God given potential.
Footwasher Ministries serve David and Carol on the road and facilitate extra local ministry outside of COTN, although there is often a crossover. He has carried his cross and bowl thousands of miles throughout Africa, Asia, North America and the West Indies, among others.
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Dave's Blog - Reproducing who we are? |
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. As time goes on, one of the biggest things I often reflect on the journey traveled is why we are where we are now. By journey I mean that of our COTN family. It seems so easy to link up and join with us and yet have the next generation not even be aware of why we are even here. The danger is that we just become another local church or movement.
When chatting to Dee Harris from Cape Town recently, she shared how she had not long before sat down with a group of our young adults and was taken aback when she challenged them as to what their calling and goals were. To her dismay only two out of a room of about 23 knew what their life callings or goals were or could even articulate them.  This reaffirmed some of the deep concern I sometimes feel when I look around church family. When we started out in church ‘restoration’ some 30 plus years ago we lived in the mentality that we were all here to first and foremost serve the Cause and the Kingdom, urgently at the ready waiting to be mobilized. Emanating from that, we would get everything else to fit. Nowadays it seems the other way around. The ‘now generation’ sets everything else in place and then fits the Church or Kingdom in.
So what has happened and why the shift? Well, I think the reason is twofold. Firstly we have allowed ourselves and those we are mentoring to become comfortable, and as a result we project the skewed message, resulting in the next generation missing it. We’ve lost our passion and urgency and have become professionals at what we do.
Secondly I believe that our strengths and weaknesses always sit alongside one another. Our teaching on Kingdom and the wonderful revelation that we are all ministers where we are, regardless of our vocation or calling is great. That is as long as we keep the Kingdom ever before us. When we fail to do that, the folk in the market place become merely workers or business people like anyone else, resulting in no one having any vision for the Kingdom cause of the Church or the Kingdom market place.  Jesus said: “foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no where to lay his head.” Matt 8:20 . I was struck and blessed recently when Jeremy and Becky Douglas Jones and Len and Lynelle Kok relocated to plant in Birmingham, UK and Cradock, SA respectively, that they were embracing this principle.
Lets return to the fervor of "Any Where, Any Place, Any Time", if we truly believe in the values and principles of the Cause of the King and his Kingdom.
Have fun knowing where you fit! |
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