A Zoom Call with Alexander Venter: Doing Church

Josh Miller sits down with Alexander Venter to continue their series of conversations on Alexander’s books. On this interview, they focus on Doing Church.

Since January 1975 Alexander became a church planter author and pastor. He has planted & pastored churches in Zimbabwe, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Soweto. Ordained with the Assembly of God in 1975, He migrated to the Vineyard movement to work with John Wimber in southern California in 1982, and was part of the first Vineyard church plant in Johannesburg.

Alexander is married to Gill and they have two adult children, Zander and Misha-Joy. The Venter’s have lived in intentional Christian community for 23 years, and in 2013 relocated back to Johannesburg in response to a call for Alexander to pastor a Vineyard church called Following Jesus, in North Riding AH, Johannesburg.

Alexander‘s passion is to make the treasures of the Kingdom available to all who want to follow Jesus, praying that God will use them for spiritual formation toward Christlikeness, in order to equip people for effective life and ministry in God’s Kingdom. His personal life mission is to “follow Jesus and make followers of him, learning to live a life of love just as Jesus loved us” (from Matthew 4:19, 28:18-20, and Ephesians 5:2 NIV).

Alexander was scheduled to be a guest at the Midwest South regional conference that is now cancelled due to COVID-19. Josh Miller sat down with him for a Zoom conversation.

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