15 facts about Daniel Du Toit, evangelist coming to Ogbomoso April 8 to 12 for crusade

15 facts about Daniel Du Toit, evangelist coming to Ogbomoso April 8 to 12 for crusade

Femi OGUNLANA

1. Daniel Du Toit is an evangelist from South Africa.

2. He founded “Take the Nations,” a global ministry based in Gordon’s Bay, Cape Town.

3. Origin of the name – “Take the Nations for Christ.” The name comes from Psalm 2:8, “Ask of Me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance.”

4. He patterns his ministry after late Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, founder of Christ for All Nations. Du Toit was heavily influenced by Bonnke.

5. Like Reinhard Bonnke he conducts large-scale gospel crusades across Africa, particularly in Nigeria, focusing on mass evangelism and miracles.

6. He was a former professional tennis player.

7. Aside being deeply influenced by evangelist Reinhard Bonnke he also studied other prominent evangelists like Billy Graham.

8. He resides in Cape Town with his wife, Bea du Toit, and travels with his family for ministry work.

9. He shares name with other prominent figures like astronomer Daniel du Toit, who discovered several comets in the 1940s, and a professional golfer, Danielle du Toit.

10. He started the ministry at a very young age with his girlfriend, Bea (now his wife). Some of their first dates were spent sharing the love of Jesus with the drug dealers, gangsters, and prostitutes in Long Street, one of the more notorious streets in Cape Town after dark. At 21, Daniel already has more than 140 churches in South Africa and Zambia partnering with his ministry, Take the Nations.

11. With a family rich in mission he is the fourth generation in missions. His grandparents were missionaries in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Japan, the Ukraine, and Russia for the last 50 years. His great-grandfather was the director of Campus Crusade South Africa.

12. How he came to Christ. He has talents for tennis which he started at age five. He was making waves nationally and internationally, based in America. He got into a lot of partying very young and was not interested in Jesus. When he turned 16 he started to suffer from depression and anxiety. He even lost his tennis coach because of his bad attitude. In desperation, he phoned his grandparents, who were in the Ukraine at that stage. They told him to “go to church.” As he hesitantly walked into Life Church, he started weeping. He was overcome by the love of God. He went home and prayed, “Jesus are You real? I want to know You.” That day everything changed. All the depression and anxiety left him and he had never had another suicidal thought. Two weeks later his grandpa flew back to come and baptise him. He started to tell people about Jesus and eventually he surrendered to spreading the gospel.

13. Subsequently, he studied at Team Impact Christian University and then Christ for all Nations (CfaN) accepted his application to Reinhard Bonnke’s School of Evangelism. The school only accepts 100 evangelists per year from across the world for training in Orlando, Florida.

14. He began his ministry in Kitwe, Zambia where God led him, a place he never heard of.

15. The first miracle God performed through him was when he prayed for a paralysed man in a hospital and he was healed. “Four months after I got saved, a lady in Somerset West asked me to come and pray for the sick in their hospital. I went and saw a man that was paralysed from his waist down. I asked if I could pray for him. After I prayed for him, I left the room. To be honest, I did not think he would be healed. A few minutes later I felt the Holy Spirit say to me, “Go back and check on him.” I walked back and asked him how he was feeling. He was just about to check and then he lifted both legs! He looked at me and swore in fright! He was completely healed. He fell on his knees right there next to the bed and gave his life to Jesus.”

Source: Wikipedia and Joy News Magazine