ABOUT THE PASTOR

(Johan & Marinda van Wyk )

For the first few years of his life, Johan grew up in a parsonage as his father was a Dutch Reformed minister. His parents nicknamed him "Cowboy" and he lived up to this name, believing that he was born to be wild!

While at school he loved sport, motorbikes and of course girls. He played first team rugby, and did well in athletics and tennis.

After a religious upbringing he rebelled after school - becoming a rebel without a cause. He moved to Hillbrow where he roamed the streets, spending most of his time in the discotheques. He joined a motorbike gang called "The Barbarians", and this is where he learned to live in a very ungodly manner.

After getting saved and baptized with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues in 1981, he fell in love with Jesus and immediately started evangelizing, doing deliverance and getting people filled with the Holy Spirit. HE WAS NOW A REBEL WITH A CAUSE, rebelling against the devil, dead religious Christianity and traditions.

He finished two years of Bible School at Rhema Bible Training Centre in 1991 and in 1992 he was ordained as an IFCC minister. He started a church in Westdene called WORLD OUTREACH CENTRE. After two years the church developed into a ministry instead of a church. Johan then ministered in America, Swaziland, Gazankhulu, Venda, Durban, Ladysmith and Cape Town. He also ministered in Boksburg Maximum Security prison for two years, as well as Townships like Soweto, Alexandra, Diepsloot and many other places.

On 21 March 1998 he got married to Marinda van Wyk. Marinda originates from Cape Town. As Johan, she also got born again in 1981. After school she decided to spend a few years in academia and obtained the degrees BComm, BComm Honours, and MComm cum laude. She started her career as a training and development specialist, moved to Johannesburg and then also did her doctorate in Industrial Psychology. Currently she is a Human Resources Manager at a Financial Services Institution. She grew up quite differently from Johan, but God's timing was perfect when he brought the two of them together. Subsequently Marinda also completed the Diploma in Christian Counselling at Rhema Bible School and also taught at Rhema's Healing School in 2000 and 2001.

On 7 February 2002 Johan started with meetings called "THE GATHERING OF THE DANGEROUS" which later developed into this Church called SOLID ROCK (The Church on Fire) - officially launched on 5 October 2002.

This has now become a pace-setting Church on the cutting edge of what GOD is doing worldwide.

MISSION

Matthew 28:18-20, "And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen."

Raising the Standard of Christian Living by:

  • Operating in the "Greater Works", miracles, signs and wonders, deliverance and whatever else the Lord called us to do.
  • Developing a more intimate relationship with our Father through our relationship with the Holy Spirit, whom our Lord and Saviour Jesus has given us access to.
  • Loosening the bonds of wickedness by the anointing of Christ.
  • Being led by the Holy Spirit in everything and at all times.
  • Making true disciples of men.
  • Caring for the individual: spirit, soul and body.

Isaiah 52:7, "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace; that brings good tidings of good, that publishes salvation; that say unto Zion, Thy God reigns!"

VISION

Habakkuk 2:2, "And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that read it."

Raising the Standard of Christian Living

Luke 4: 18-19 : The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

-Being on the cutting edge of where the Holy Spirit is leading and what the Lord expects from the Final (John the Baptist) Generation

-Reaching our full potential as individuals in our gift and callings and corporately as the body, having the Lord manifest himself so that the earth is filled with His glory

-Revival: Having the Sons of GOD revealed and the Bride prepared for His coming