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Wednesday, 28 August 2013

About Thomas and Erna



About the authors of this blog: Thomas and Erna Dreyer

We have been living in Johannesburg for the last 6 years, pastoring in Randburg Reformed Church (RCR).  We are blessed with a daughter, Jawé, who is 7 years old.   We met 18 years ago while studying B.Com degrees at the University of Pretoria.  After finishing his B.Com degree, Thomas felt called to full time ministry and went to the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus) to study Theology.   We got married in 2001 while Thomas was still studying.  Erna was teaching to keep the boat afloat.  After Thomas finished his M.Th. at Potchefstroom, we got the opportunity to go to London, where we stayed for a year and a half.  Here we became involved in a ministry to South-Africans in London which would later grow into Canada Water Church.  This sparked our interest in Church planting.  After returning from London we ministered in a small town in Kwazulu-Natal, South-Africa.   In 2007 we were called to Randburg Reformed Church in Johannesburg where we are responsible for equipping young single and newlywed adults to be church of Jesus in Johannesburg.   We are also responsible for and involved in the “evangelism and outreach-ministries” of the RCR from which the vision to plant new churches in Johannesburg grew. Erna has a part time admin job at RCR and the rest of the time she is a wife and mom.