1 About Hippie Revival 1970
These Pages will feature firsthand accounts by those who experienced the great movement of the Spirit of God in Cape Town during the Hippie Revival of 1969/197o, and of those even later affected by it in the expansion of Assembly of God churches in the Western Cape which resulted largely from that time.
February 28, 2010 at 10:47 am |
I got saved in 1973 during the meetings at Loop Street (Sea Point AOG)… Great to read all the info. Please mail me more!!
February 28, 2010 at 12:17 pm |
Hi Debbie, glad you found the site. Would you like to amplify your experience and let me have it for possible inclusion as a PAGE? Just email it to me at jessopsutton@vodamail.co.za
Personal testimonies to the experience of Salvation are powerful tools of evangelism.
Bless you.
July 28, 2010 at 11:18 am |
I was only 11-12 my MA teacher, Miss Pink, sang ‘Little Boxes’ to us nippers but I only really got into the second waves of the Hippie Pipe Dream in 1974-75. When I was 14 Johnni Weber shared his testimony at our school. When I was 16, I witnessed the conversion of Mark Starbuck at Teencentre (Rondebosch) and though I wanted to be a Christian, my heart was not yet ready. I went along to the tent campaign, and watched Kim Glynn singing about Jesus, with a kewl band. I was invited to the Upper Room in Bergvliet, but though I saw strange stuff, I was prevented from seeing Jesus. Though I was open to spirits and had been from a very early age, I was prevented from coming to Christ until I was 18, when God opened the floodgates of heaven and blew my cotton socks right off my feet. My O.C. Lieutenant Commander ‘Colin’ Chambers, who was a member of the Harfield Road Assemblies of God, had told the youth about this person (me) whose life was on the brink. He had no idea, how far gone I was. At the time he visited me I had decided to buy a gun and kill my body so that my spirit might fly free to Abaxas (my god). He visited me at tea time on the 7 July 1976, and though he did not say much, …just ‘How are you doing?’ I eventually said, ‘Excuse me, Sir? I need to do something’ and presently dropped to my knees on the cold cement floor and lifted my hands up and asked Jesus to come into my inner being (heart). A week later I was invited to attend a retreat at Apostle’s Battery, near Llududno and while I was praying with Colin on the mountain, I was knocked clean out of my socks. What is known as the Baptism with the Holy Spirit and I spoke with tongues as the Spirit afforded me the freedom to do so. I have not then or since experienced anything that equaled the experience I had that day.
Though I have fallen down many times, and been a terribly bad example at times, I have been carried through each valley by the grace of God in Jesus Christ. Praise the Lord God Almighty!
February 22, 2012 at 10:32 am |
I was introduced to Jesus at the Upper Room by Neil Price, a school mate – we played in the same rugby team at Bergvliet High where I had a most remarkably unsuccessful career. It was through his persistent witnessing and his bringing me to the weekend meetings at the Upper Room that I encountered Him in the January of 1972 _ after quite a struggle with the Holy Spirit. My first steps as a Christian began there and across the road in the just planted Meadowridge AOG with Faans Klopper as my first minister. Little did I know it then, but those were revival times.
February 22, 2012 at 8:36 pm |
Hi Noel, nice to have you responding to this one. It all goes back a long time but some of us do still keep in touch and a few meet for coffee in Meadowridge on the last Tuesday of each month. It is good that so many dating back to those days are still on the journey with Jesus.
March 2, 2012 at 2:33 am |
Those Upper Room days were such an amazing experience for me…. Johnny Weber, Mark Starbuck….. I was just a kid and I listened in awe as they and others gave their testimonies. Secretly I wished I could have lived such an exciting life as these hippie guys…. little did I know just how blessed I was to be saved so young. Noel and I went into the ministry from Constantia AOG and today we are living in the USA – still in ministry – our neighbours are Noel and Merle Cromhout. They were a huge influence in my life as a teenager, so were others such as Lorraine Pym.
March 2, 2012 at 10:09 am |
Welcome on the page, Moira. We are gradually building up a history of those significant days in our lives. Bless you.