Our TEAM
2019 DTS team and staff
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Wikus & Christien Vorster
- South Africa
YWAM Potch Base Leaders
Wikus & Christien met each other while on outreach in Botswana and since that time have been involved in ministry and missions. They have been married for 29 years and have 5 children; Job, Andrea, Jonathan, Elandri and Joshua. Three are married and they have 4 grandchildren!
Christien studied Education and Psychology and currently leads the TPM traning and ministry. She did her DTS in 2013 at YWAM Worcester. She loves to host teams and students and lectures on 'Hearing God’s Voice' during the DTS lecture phase. She also lectures part time at the North West University.
Wikus completed his DTS in Pretoria in 2009 followed by a YWAM leadership school in Worcester, South Africa. Since then he has lead a counselling school on the Worcester base and several DTSs and counselling schools in different cities. Wikus is the current leader of the 'Transformational Prayer Ministry' in South Africa, has previously pastored in the Ikageng township, and has run two Global Day of Prayer events in Potchefstroom with over two thousand people in attendance.
In late 2013 Wikus and Christien pioneered YWAM Potchefstroom; the first university base of South Africa.
Other courses we focus on is our Prophetic school and Transformtion Prayer Ministry (international course).
Wikus is the founder of Operation Refugee Africa - see more info on our page.
- South Africa
YWAM Potch Base Leaders
Wikus & Christien met each other while on outreach in Botswana and since that time have been involved in ministry and missions. They have been married for 29 years and have 5 children; Job, Andrea, Jonathan, Elandri and Joshua. Three are married and they have 4 grandchildren!
Christien studied Education and Psychology and currently leads the TPM traning and ministry. She did her DTS in 2013 at YWAM Worcester. She loves to host teams and students and lectures on 'Hearing God’s Voice' during the DTS lecture phase. She also lectures part time at the North West University.
Wikus completed his DTS in Pretoria in 2009 followed by a YWAM leadership school in Worcester, South Africa. Since then he has lead a counselling school on the Worcester base and several DTSs and counselling schools in different cities. Wikus is the current leader of the 'Transformational Prayer Ministry' in South Africa, has previously pastored in the Ikageng township, and has run two Global Day of Prayer events in Potchefstroom with over two thousand people in attendance.
In late 2013 Wikus and Christien pioneered YWAM Potchefstroom; the first university base of South Africa.
Other courses we focus on is our Prophetic school and Transformtion Prayer Ministry (international course).
Wikus is the founder of Operation Refugee Africa - see more info on our page.
Thabo Mohutsiwa
- South Africa
Vulnerable children ministry
Since Thabo did his DTS in 2017 he was involved in YWAM , focussing on the Orphanage and other mercy projects in Ikageng township. Thabo is an director of Phelan ka Bolokolohi ( a local NPO supporting other NPS's) .
Contact Thabo on his Facebook Page Thabo Mohutsiwa
Online Courses - STAFF
As part of the Online schools we have wonderful commited volunteers and staff from differentc cultures and countries.
Online Relationship course - two staff from the Netherlands
Online TPM course - Staff from SA, USA/Kuba, Netherlands/ Ivory coast and USA.
Online Prophetic school - Staff from Madagascar, Cameroond/England & SA etc.
Online Relationship course - two staff from the Netherlands
Online TPM course - Staff from SA, USA/Kuba, Netherlands/ Ivory coast and USA.
Online Prophetic school - Staff from Madagascar, Cameroond/England & SA etc.
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Andrea StrydomSOUTH AFRICA
Andrea did her DTS in 2024 in YWAM Worcester , she is married with Francois who is leading the DEAF Ministry in Pretoria South Africa. As school leader of the ONLINE ARTISTIC JOURNALLING Andrea is part of our staff. |
WIKUS VORSTER 's story
We have lived from 2011 by faith in Ywam and we regularly look at the fruit of our ministry to determine if it is worth the sacrifice. We thank everybody that’s involved in any way. It has been both very difficult at times and at other times we were absolutely amazed by God moving in an amazing way. May God bless you!
Serving local churches through discipleship courses
We thank God for His wisdom and His strategy in our area. When we started the base we had literally 3 churches within 200 metres from our house. In Potch there are a lot of churches and we have big churches around the students. When I prayed I felt God saying: “South-Africa is over-churched and under-discipled”. We clearly felt lead to start with discipleship schools. In the beginning we just had schools with the community from different backgrounds. Now it seems we are moving into a new season.
In our home town there are many churches and each has its own doctrine. What was God’s call for us? When we got busy in the community, we found a very broken community under the layer of Christianity.
The DTS’s we ran we felt were very successful. We found the gospel very profound in its simplicity; having a healthy personal relationship with God and loving relationships with people. In this flow of our relationship with God “doctrine” is not really a problem because the core of our faith is the same.
As we grew as a family and a base we are now finding that our family is members of three different churches. All of our children are very active in their churches and attracting people to our discipleship groups. We are starting to build more trust as a base with the churches in our area.
We are currently running two schools that are specifically designed to strengthen and serve the churches and Christians that is looking for more:
Church growth because of the discipleship schools
One church asked us to present our Counselling school in their church. After the first school they did two other TPM schools in their church with 20 people in each school. This church grew to such an extent that the church was asked to talk to the synod about what they are doing in the church that causes the growth. The church moved from “doctrine” to “relationship” and immediately there was a multiplication effect in the church!
Now we have another church we are partnering with in Lenasia. With the prophetic school it seems there might be two churches and an organisation partnering with us! This gives us the unique possibility to serve the body of Christ as a whole and people can do our courses and go and use the course material in their churches.
(read more on our Blog https://wikuschristien.blogspot.com )
Wikus Vorster
We have lived from 2011 by faith in Ywam and we regularly look at the fruit of our ministry to determine if it is worth the sacrifice. We thank everybody that’s involved in any way. It has been both very difficult at times and at other times we were absolutely amazed by God moving in an amazing way. May God bless you!
Serving local churches through discipleship courses
We thank God for His wisdom and His strategy in our area. When we started the base we had literally 3 churches within 200 metres from our house. In Potch there are a lot of churches and we have big churches around the students. When I prayed I felt God saying: “South-Africa is over-churched and under-discipled”. We clearly felt lead to start with discipleship schools. In the beginning we just had schools with the community from different backgrounds. Now it seems we are moving into a new season.
In our home town there are many churches and each has its own doctrine. What was God’s call for us? When we got busy in the community, we found a very broken community under the layer of Christianity.
The DTS’s we ran we felt were very successful. We found the gospel very profound in its simplicity; having a healthy personal relationship with God and loving relationships with people. In this flow of our relationship with God “doctrine” is not really a problem because the core of our faith is the same.
As we grew as a family and a base we are now finding that our family is members of three different churches. All of our children are very active in their churches and attracting people to our discipleship groups. We are starting to build more trust as a base with the churches in our area.
We are currently running two schools that are specifically designed to strengthen and serve the churches and Christians that is looking for more:
- Prophetic School
- TPM – Counselling course
Church growth because of the discipleship schools
One church asked us to present our Counselling school in their church. After the first school they did two other TPM schools in their church with 20 people in each school. This church grew to such an extent that the church was asked to talk to the synod about what they are doing in the church that causes the growth. The church moved from “doctrine” to “relationship” and immediately there was a multiplication effect in the church!
Now we have another church we are partnering with in Lenasia. With the prophetic school it seems there might be two churches and an organisation partnering with us! This gives us the unique possibility to serve the body of Christ as a whole and people can do our courses and go and use the course material in their churches.
(read more on our Blog https://wikuschristien.blogspot.com )
Wikus Vorster
