Steve Flandorp
Global Director, Africa“I believe that Africa is key in the spreading of the Gospel across the world as Christianity has been in decline in many Western nations,” he said. “CapMin’s discipleship model is a key part of the change in the trajectory of the continent and ultimately the world.” Pastor Flandorp is the senior pastor of the Cape Gateway International Church that he and his wife Louise planted 30 years ago. He is a graduate of Cape Bible Training College. A successful businessman, Pastor Flandorp has worked as the head of an investment initiative between the South African government and Eskom, an electric utility company. He pursued a career in Electrical Engineering for one year and completed a diploma in business management from the University of South Africa. In 1995/96, he studied economic development at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, while he continued to focus on international fixed foreign direct investment. He holds certificates and diplomas in marketing, entrepreneurship, governance, management, finance, administration and leadership.
Pastor Flandorp is the president of the growing international Fellowship of Churches and the regional hub leader of Movement Day Africa, Southern Region. He holds advisory and directorship roles with several organizations, including SCF Project Consulting, and several non-government groups, including Keep the Dream 308 Foundation and Hope Africa Collective. He began a Fellowship of Churches Bible school and taught there for many years. He has presented the gospel to church leaders, political leaders, and aspiring leaders in church settings, as well as in business leadership camps, and government chambers. Pastor Flandorp has ministered and taught God’s Word to leaders at international conferences in many parts of Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Pastor Flandorp and his wife, Louise are both second-generation pastors and church planters who have a passion to mobilize the church to transform the communities where they live and work. They have four adult children.
Pastor Flandorp also leads the CapMin Bible study for national leaders in his home country of South Africa. He is passionate about growing CapMin’s discipleship Bible-study based ministries to political leaders across the continent. “It is critical, that the decisions of political leaders are guided and led by their biblical foundations” Pastor Flandorp said. “Without the truth of God’s Word embedded in the hearts and minds, their decisions will be flawed and their characters will be challenged.”