By Angus Buchan
Angus Buchan is a straight-talking South African farmer of Scottish extraction. His abrupt conversion startled the chums of this explosive, hard-drinking guy. Angus' daring religion has carried him via droughts, kinfolk tragedies, and fiscal concern. He has obvious magnificent miracles of provision and therapeutic. In obedience to God's name he begun preaching, which led right into a therapeutic ministry. He has additionally organize an AIDS orphanage and a 500-seat auditorium on his land. nonetheless a farmer, he's now a global evangelist, touring via Africa in a refitted yellow hearth engine, and filling the most important venues in South Africa. religion Like Potatoes has now been made right into a function movie allotted in North the US via Sony, and this new movie variation of the e-book comprises colour stills from the movie.
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There’s a care home for the elderly near my farm, and I often speak there. Every time I visited that year, the old folk wanted to know how the crops were faring. One day I dug up some really big potatoes, washed them and put them in a bag with some mealies. When I finished preaching, I took them out and put them on the table. “This is what Jesus has done,” I said. “This is the way he has rewarded our faith. ” Many of the labourers on our farm were Christians, and they usually had to put up with a great deal of mockery from their friends for standing up for Christ.
A group of young men were climbing out of the truck, so I held up my weapon as I went towards them. I would get them before they got me! I’ll never forget the look on their faces as they jumped back in their vehicle and took off down the road. One of the workmen told me later that they were the sons of the old man driving the lorry. He hadn’t come home and they were out looking for him. It was an eventful night by any standards, but the most worrying thing was my state of mind: quick to anger, suspicious of everyone, and ready to be violent.
It wasn’t much bigger than the caravan, but it felt like a palace to us. Later we knocked a hole in the wall and built more rooms, but we never replaced it – we still live in the same house. I was starting from square one – I didn’t speak Zulu, I didn’t know the land, I didn’t even know when the rains would come in this new country. All I had was my physical strength, my farming skills, and my determination to build a new life for our little family. At that time we were regarded with some disdain by the local farmers, as if we were gypsies or tinkers: we had come from nowhere; we were camping in primitive conditions with no telephone, no water, no lights, no radio, nothing.