Members of the Victory Outreach Church homes from across the country descended on Clarke Estate, Elsies River, on Thursday with a mission to save souls.
Victory Outreach is a free rehabilitation home for recovering drug addicts, and former gangsters and sex workers.
More than 300 of their members came to give testimony in Hazyview Court with hopes of inspiring skollies and addicts to change their ways.
Pastor Nathan Asher says a strong aspect of their ministry is evangelical.
LIVE: Melissa gives testimony. Photo: Jack Lestrade
“When we come out, we are able to display the fruits of our labour, and how many of our members have turned their lives around, showing that people can change and still live life to the fullest. Our message is: there’s hope in Jesus Christ,” he says.
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Members from Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg and the East Rand homes arrived in buses, bakkies and cars, standing on chairs on street corners to spread the word.
In her powerful testimony, Melissa from Elsies River said she was caught up in a life of drugs and gangs, but Jesus saved her.
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“I was shot and regularly ran from guns and gangsters, I had a paar pela poste. Ek het ander dae gedowwel, my dronk geroek aan die buttons en die tik.
“I came to the realisation I didn’t want to live like this. Today I can stand here proudly as an overcomer. I can say, there is power in the name of Jesus,” she told the listening residents, many of whom were standing on the stairs or hanging out of their windows.
Residents did not want to comment.