“I wanted to kill my family when I was 13 years old”. A year prior to that, I entered the drug dealing mafia world and I wanted to be the most notorious drug dealer in the streets. I remembered my desire to rise up to power among the gangsters and I almost killed my mother to prove my worth. Drug trafficking, theft, fraud, prostitution, you name it, I did it. I went in and out of prison and the courtroom on a weekly basis. Fast forward to the age of 16, I was sent to reformatory school where I finally met God. One year into that, I told God I would serve Him if He’d let me go home early. He did. I forgot about my promise and went back to drugs. I was renowned in Mossel Bay as one of the most fearsome drug dealers. One night, a desire suddenly came into my heart to go to church with my sister. ‘God wouldn’t want a gangster like me’, was the response in my heart when the altar call came. However, I was so overwhelmed by the Spirit that I ran towards the altar, telling God that I surrender all to Him. As soon as I got home, I destroyed all my drugs. Woke up the next morning, I had no desire for them, and I have been drug-free since. My family was restored to me. I left my gang and have been on fire for Jesus for the past 13 years. God’s hope was my reality. No matter how deep in the darkness I got myself into, His hope reached into the murky darkness and took me out of it.”
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Rudi, South Africa
Student of Sound of the Nations ’17 DTS 2017


June 16th and Youth Month in South Africa
If you have ever been to South Africa, or are planning on coming here for an outreach, you would definitely be already aware and prepared