In this episode of Divine Intervention, we are joined by African farmer and evangelist, Angus Buchan.
One of the most influential men in South Africa never intended to go there in the first place. Turn the clock back to 1977. Angus Buchan was a hardheaded, hard-driving Scotsman struggling to make his fortune farming in Zambia. But the times were against him.
In an era of upheaval and unrest, and after years of fighting against the tide, Angus, his wife, Jill (then six months pregnant), and their children moved to KwaZulu-Natal Midlands in South Africa. Having sold his land for a pittance, Angus couldn’t afford a farm with a house on it. But he worked the land with such fervor that his farm hands laughed behind his back and called him “Nkosaan,” which meant “mad.”
Yet other, even bigger changes on the horizon. In 1979, attending a service at Greytown Methodist Church, Angus and Jill committed their lives fully to Jesus Christ. Everything that had been theirs was now his.
In his bestselling book, “Faith Like Potatoes,” Angus recounts how he learned to trust that God was at work building something substantial even if he couldn’t see it. Much in the way a potato grows underground, out of sight.
Angus had no formal higher education or theological training, yet he felt called to share his faith and preach the word of God. Soon whole stadiums were filling to hear him. Doors opened for a ministry to African orphans, left parentless by the ravaging AIDS epidemic. Soon the Buchan farm would host an expanding number of homes for these homeless children, offering them love, spiritual nurture, education, housing, clothes, and fun. A ministry to encourage fathers followed: the “Mighty Men.” From a first meeting of 240 in 2003, more than 200,000 men attended last year’s gathering.
Now Angus receives invitations to preach in stadiums throughout Africa and the Word is going out worldwide through television outreach. And of those farmhands who thought him “mad?” Simeon, an African who has been with him from the beginning, is with him still, now a brother in Christ who supervises the Buchan farm.
The movie Faith Like Potatoes swept through South Africa in its initial release, becoming one of the nation’s highest-grossing domestic films. It has won international awards and touches lives wherever it plays. Now through Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Faith Like Potatoes is reaching the U.S. market on wide-release DVD.
Click the links below to listen to this incredible story of this extraordinarily ordinary farmer, and what God can do through a person who has "Faith Like Potatoes!"
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