Capital:
Pretoria (administrative capital)
Population:
43,786,115
Languages:
IsiZulu 23.8%, IsiXhosa 17.6%, Afrikaans 13.3%, Sepedi 9.4%, English 8.2%, Setswana 8.2%, Sesotho 7.9%, Xitsonga 4.4%, other 7.2%
Religion:
Zion Christian 11.1%, Pentecostal/Charismatic 8.2%, Catholic 7.1%, Methodist 6.8%, Dutch Reformed 6.7%, Anglican 3.8%, Muslim 1.5%, other Christian 36%, other 2.3%, unspecified 1.4%, none 15.1%
Life Expectancy:
42.37 years
GDP per-capita:
$9,800
Of Interest:
South Africa's coast stretches more than 2,500 kilometres (1,550 mi) across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. South Africa is one of only 17 countries worldwide considered Megadiverse. It has more than 20,000 different plants, about 10% of all the known species of plants on Earth. VGR has more offices in South Africa than in any other country in the world.
Location:
Southern Africa, at the southern tip of the continent of Africa
Voice Of God Recordings - South Africa/Nelspruit
Office Manager:
Brother Des de Fortier
Countries or Provinces Served:
We serve the following (approximate) number of end-time Message Churches in the sub-region, loosely referred to as “South East Africa:”
653 fellowship groups in Mozambique, to include all its 10 Provinces; 20 fellowship groups in Swaziland, to include the whole of the Swazi Mountain Kingdom; 27 fellowship groups in the Swazi-speaking Lowveld of South Africa; a portion of the Province of Mpumalanga, in and around its capital, Nelspruit Office Staff - 5 Employees:
Brother Desmond Melville de Fortier - Office ManagerSister Elmarie Myrtle de Fortier - Admin. Assistant/Secretary/BookkeeperBrother Joao Dique Cudoca - Admin. Assistant, MaputoBrother Michael Mzingeli Mathonsi - Warehouse Assistant, NelspruitSister Lahliwe Sannie Mathonsi - Temporary worker/cleaner Special Information:
Voice of God Recordings “Mozambique Distribution Office” operates from the main office facility situated at 65 Halssnoer Crescent, Sonheuwel Extension One, Nelspruit, South Africa, 1200. The VGR warehouse facility is situated at 15 Rood Street, Nelspruit, South Africa, 1200. Its postal address is, PO Box 7938, Sonpark, Nelspruit, 1206. The VGR Maputo office is located at 12 Zimpeto Street, Ward 5, Zimpeto, Maputo City, Mozambique. Its postal address is, Caixa Postal 1053. Maputo City, Mozambique.
Short History of Office Manager:
In 1951, as a young boy of five, together with my mother and grandmother, I had the wonderful opportunity of seeing God's prophet at the Durban City Hall and at the Greyville Race Course. But later in years, when I was a deacon in the Full Gospel Church of God in Durban South Africa, my wife and I were among a small group that found copies of two of Brother Branham's books - An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages and The Revelation Of The Seven Seals - in our church library.
To our astonishment and delight, we came to find that there was a greater Message beyond Pentecost. We promptly and unhesitatingly came out of denominationalism, never to return to the fetters of bondage again, by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In 1989, our Lord undertook for my family and myself to leave Durban for the eastern parts of Southern Africa, where we established ourselves as a family in Christ in the city of Nelspruit. The mid 1990's saw the blossoming of mission outreach in the areas of the Eastern Transvaal Lowveld, Swaziland, and eventually into the Mozambique sub-regions. To this day, my wife - Sister Elmarie, and I as a missionary minister and elder find ourselves fervently working for the Lord amongst more than 420 Message assemblies in this sub-region.
My family and I worship the Lord in Spirit and in Truth in Nelspruit itself, together with a small number of very dedicated families. We assemble in cottage meetings, and we love to come together every week to fellowship under the anointed tape Messages left with us by God's 20th-century Gentile prophet. We, as an assembly in Nelspruit, believe EVERY Word in the Bible to be the Truth, and we also believe EVERY Word that was uttered by God's prophet, from 1947 to 1965, to be the Voice of God. We also do not take from the Word or add to the Word. We endeavor to live the Word of God for this hour to the best of our ability, as given to us by God through His prophet, looking forward to the imminent return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
My involvement with Voice Of God Recordings started in the mid 1990's, and in 2001, I became the manager of the Nelspruit Office. Today, by the grace of God, the VGR team has worked together to establish hundreds of Christian Message libraries in this part of Southeast Africa, in the English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Tsonga, Xhosa, and Portuguese languages.
To our Creator we give all the honor, praise and glory, blessed be His Name.
Brother Des de Fortier