WE’RE ALL YEARNING: ANTON’S STORY
I had a wild time in London in my twenties with my then-girlfriend Elana. We had a life of privilege and access to resources, even drugs. We bought property and I was very well established in a large corporation involved in business development. But something in us yearned for deeper things. Eventually, God became real to us thanks to our relationship with a South African friend whose faith was intriguing us, and this started us on a whole new trajectory in life.
A calling to come back to South Africa
Elana started studying applied theology and became a youth pastor at a local church, and I helped her out with weekend camps. But I felt a calling, a pull to come back to South Africa to help people in any way, shape, or form that I could. We had never planned to come back to South Africa, so it was really scary.
