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TRIBUTES OF THE LATE REV NICHOLAS BHENGU

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Sir,
 
 May you kindly publish this letter in your widely read newspaper. I want to concur to the views expressed by one Christian in his letter to the editor concerning the Assemblies of God movement.

But before I say a lot, may I fully acknowledge the work of Rev Nicholas Bhengu, the founder of this movement. Some have referred to him as the “Billy Graham” of Southern Africa. Rev Bengu was born at Entumeni, kwaZulu Natal in September 5, 1909. He founded the Assemblies of God movement in the late 1950. Bhengu, a strong evangelist emphasised holiness and the fear of God in his preaching’s.

His strong evangelism started in East London in South Africa, where thousands of people were converted during his gospel crusade. His work eventually spread to the whole of South Africa and Swaziland.

Bhengu would never finish his sermon without people handing over stolen goods, thugs handing over their guns, knives and all sorts of weapons they carried. Not only that he would walk with them to the police station to hand themselves over. One of the stories told about him is that when he came in Swaziland, he preached around Big Bend and a lot of people were converted.


They in turn brought a lot of items they had secretly stolen from the nearby supermarkets. This included the workers of the supermarkets. Seeing such miracles, the owner of the business, a white men pledged financially to support in the construction of such the church that preached the gospel of transformation, changing the moral behaviour and character of an individual. 

Rev Bhengu before he succumbed to death, told his people, “angizange ngizenze umuntu ocebile ngemali yabantu abampofu, siyohlangana Ezulwini ngiyazi.”
 
Z M Dlamini
LUBOMBO

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