Buried report on gang-violence deaths inspired upcoming Mighty Men Healing The City event

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Cape Town pastors, community leaders invited to information session on March 28

When the news that 121 people were killed in the Cape Flats over six days of gang violence only made page nine in a local newspaper last year, staff members of a Christian radio station were provoked to respond to the suffering of the community.

A Mighty Men Healing The City event to take place at Athlone Stadium on November 1 “was birthed out of the brokenness and the hurt that is in the Cape Flats”, said Ernie de Meyer ministry head at Radio Tygerberg 104FM in an interview.

He said pastors and community leaders are invited to an information session at Athlone Stadium on Friday March 28 about the upcoming Mighty Men event [see details in banner below]

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Urging pastors and leaders who are involved in addressing gang violence or who are impacted by it, to attend, he said: “We all recognise that we are in a spritual battle. We see the brokenness in the communities that is caused by the gangsterism and violence. Pastors are the anointed ones that are called to be light and salt and to preach to the communities.

“So, my encouragement to them would be to come and be part of this group that’s for unity. We know that Scripture that says: ‘Where there is unity, God commands a blessing‘. So it’s not going to come down to one person, to one church, or to one denomination. It’s going to take the whole Body of Christ working together and connecting and interconnecting with each other to reach out to the community.”

He said that last year, after the station was moved to respond to the plight of Cape Flats communities, they met with some pastors and leaders and heard their concerns that men were absent or not taking up their rightful place. Arising from this consultation, Radio Tygerberg CEO Hardus Zevenster asked evangelist Angus Buchan if he would speak at the proposed Mighty Men event on the Cape Flats. Buchan, who led a historic mass prayer meeting in the area — in Mitchells Plain — in 2018 readily agreed.to the request to speak at the Mighty Men at Athlone Stadium on November 1.

He said that since last year they had facilitated a “mini Mighty Men” event in Delft, which has resulted in “a community of leaders who are now holding hands with each other”.

They had also facilitated a two-day training session to equip Cape Flats parents and leaders to provide trauma counseling. They plan to arrange more such events this year.

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