I was born in 1953 in Cape Town. I was married to Linda from February 1978 to October 2011, when she died of brain cancer. I have a son, two daughters, a son-in-law, and a daughter-in-law. We entered in-country missions in 1994 and principally worked with people living with HIV and AIDS, first in terminal care, and then in management and prevention of HIV as a chronic disease. While we lived in Mpumalanga (on the east side of South Africa, near Mozambique), we planted a church in a poor community and started a home-based terminal care project for people dying of AIDS. This was in an informal settlement. Back in Cape Town, from 2002 to 2007, I worked at ThembaCare, a Christian NGO that cared for children living with HIV/AIDS, and their families. I started a home-based care project in 2004. Having taught systematic theology on a part-time voluntary basis from 2007, in 2009 I moved full-time to Cape Theological Seminary, an Assemblies of God college that trains pastors and missionaries, where I had completed an MA degree in 2006. I taught Church History, philosophy, sociology, and systematic theology to BA (Theology) undergraduates. In 2016 I took early retirement and moved to Gauteng in order to be nearer to my children and grandchildren. Theologically, I am a kind of Anglo-Catholic Evangelical Charismatic, but I often tell people (just for fun) that I am a liturgical Pentecostal. I love music, literature, history (especially church history), theatre, ballet and opera. I am an enthusiastic adventure motorcyclist. Since my wife died, I have done 35 trips in five countries in Southern Africa and in Vietnam, ranging between 750 and 7500 km and totalling 88000 km.