My story
I grew up on a farm in Namibia, and the best moments of my life that I had as a child were on our farm. Going on camping trips alone with my two brothers, with our quad bike and mini jeep. Being very young but very brave and adventurous when we were in our cowboy phase of life, we enjoyed those moments and treasure them up to this day. We learned a lot about nature, animals, and farming. The raw way in which we grew up and the skills that we learned have been so beneficial up to this day. My parents didn’t want us to watch television during daytime and said we could play outside, instead of being passive and brain washed in front of the television screen (these where the years before cell phones and tablets). I am thankful for those days.
I was home schooled for two years with my younger brother and then I went with my older brother to a farm school in the middle of the Kalahari, four hours by bus on a gravel road without the luxury of air conditioning and then another hour by car to get home from where our parents picked us up. It was a long way to get home, but we went home every weekend, and the bus drive was totally worth it, because there on the farm we could get dirty, play hard and experience the peace and quality of life unfiltered and raw.
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Today, I see a society that has grown passive, weak and fragile on all levels – body, soul, and spirit. Everything has become so easy and quick, and the raw way of life has been lost. For the most part, children don’t get dirty enough, they don’t play enough, and the result of this is worse than we realise. This is a drive-in society. A drive for wealth, comfort, and materialistic security. Values are becoming less important while people want to be entertained, they want to enjoy themselves, thinking that it would make them happy, but in the process, they are sacrificing so much. The way that life is today, you easily neglect the most important things.
Today, men are not men anymore and women are not women anymore. Children are not children anymore. Why do I say that? The Babylonian beast system was created to destroy families, to destroy intimacy with one another and with God, our Creator. Making you extremely dependent on the system for services, food, and medicine. It is driven by greed, performance, and power where you lose your true identity as a child of God, finding your purpose in what you do and not in the One who created you, formed you, and called you for a very specific task. Society is growing further and further away from the tree of life God has called us to. Our passion is to help families make their way back out of the system, back into God’s garden, and to rediscover His ancient paths.
When God called me into ministry, I went with the idea to help run a gap year for young people who were unsure of what to do with their lives after Matric. I have a big heart for discipleship, to equip and empower. But it didn’t happen, because Abba had different plans with the ministry. But that passion didn’t die, I realised, looking back in time when I had served in this men’s ministry, doing multiple army bootcamps (with hundreds of men’s lives changed radically by God).
I now know that it was all a training ground for me for that which was still to come and is now realising with this Harvest Life School, for which all of us whom God had called to be part of, had been prepared to teach and equip this end-time army of children, who will know their purpose and their calling from a very young age. They will learn to live a Spirit-filled life without dead religious works, which is where most of us came from. They will have an identity in the Messiah that cannot be shaken, with a strong Biblical foundation and the right interpretation of the Bible, being equipped with practical skills to help themselves and others. We also want to teach and train them according to their callings and giftings, equipping them for every good work for which the Father has called them.
This is the call and passion that Abba has placed inside of me. I want to equip children with life skills on all levels – spirit, soul, and body. I have seen in my life how God uses the skills that were developed in my life to be a blessing to His Kingdom. It is our aim to make Harvest Life School a skills-based school, where the children do not just sit behind the books (for the most part) but where they actively participate and become skilled in different areas of life, from farming to carpentry, building, cooking, making pottery, and the list goes on and on. This makes Harvest Life School unique.
We will focus on all fundamental areas of children’s development. They will learn to read, write, do maths (intellect), etc., they will be developed spiritually, mentally, and emotionally through Biblical values, principles, and Kingdom keys. On top of that, life skills will be developed that are essential for living a sustainable life in this day and age (end-time awareness). We want to see God’s Kingdom manifest in the lives of families, in the lives of children. We want to take the exodus journey from knowledge to life in God’s Promised Land because children are growing up under the tree of knowledge of good and evil instead of the tree of life. We want to do things differently at Harvest Life, we want to do things God’s way.
