Our vision, mission, and values all permeate knowing God intimately, acknowledging who we are in Christ, and walking in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Our mission is to plant healthy churches with believers who intimately know the Father heart of God, and who usher God's lost sons and daughters into His glorious embrace by the power of His Spirit through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Our vision is a transformed Africa through the presence of God being made manifest by equipping His sons and daughters to become an encounter of Jesus through the power of the Spirit to a lost and dying world.
Believing the gospel of the death & resurrection of Jesus Christ is where everything starts and flows from. Believing in Jesus Christ whom God has sent changes everything. Jesus said that if you believe on Him you will do greater works than Him. “These signs will follow them that believe.” (Mark 16:17)
Intimately knowing the Father. This is the one thing we believe will transform and displace the orphan heart in Africa. “You cannot cast out an orphan spirit, you can only introduce him or her to the Father.” ~ Jack Frost
Worshipping Jesus in awe and in wonder. We are worshippers at heart. Our desire and focus is to stay in awe and wonder of King Jesus.
Be led by the Spirit. The mature sons of God are led by the Spirit. The world sees maturity as being independent and self-sufficient. In the kingdom of God, maturity is increased dependence on the Spirit. The more we depend on Him, hear His voice, and follow His direction, the more we will do the works of Jesus.
Loving people – Jesus showed us how to lead like a servant and serve like a king.
These values all boil down to loving God and loving people. Loving God and loving your neighbor as yourself is the greatest commandment. The great commission flows from it: “Go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations…”
And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to follow all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:18-20 (Emphasis added)
HE Church is led by a dynamic duo who operate in the apostolic and prophetic. They are supported by the active participation and cooperation of a five-fold ministry team.
Stoffel is our Senior Leader and walks in the Apostolic gift. He is awed by King Jesus and pursues intimacy with his glorious Father in Heaven as he fervently walks in the Spirit to establish Heaven on Earth. His vision is for Heaven to invade Earth through the equipping of the liberated sons and daughters of God.
Linda is our Senior Leader and walks in the Prophetic and Apostolic gifts. She leads with fierce love as she listens intently to her Lord and King. She boldly speaks His words forth as an empowering call for the sons and daughters of God to arise, because she sees the glory of the Lord risen upon them. The authority and power of Jesus rests on us
Establishing Heaven on earth by equipping generations to come who pursue the heart of God.
Through the power of the Holy Spirit we love people by feeding, disciplining, caring and healing.
Members of HE Ministries who take up the call to pray and believe with signs following.
Members of HE Ministries who take up the call to pray and believe with signs following.
HE Church has an ever-expanding international footprint and we invite you to join the Spirit-empowered movement. Jesus said, “Go into all the world…”. Join us as we follow Father God on this Kingdom adventure. See the map below for some of our locations. Multiple congregations are often in the same city. New cities are added when the authenticity and longevity of a new congregation in that city has been established.
While in Israel, Linda Fourie received a prophetic word that she and her husband Stoffel would start a church in the Heaven & Earth region in Hermanus, South Africa. “You are going to plant a church that will transform Africa.” Linda kept the word close and waited prayerfully for a year.
The following year in October on a Sunday evening, Stoffel was praying to the Lord about specific, but unrelated things. Linda could see Stoffel through a glass door, and she felt the Lord say to her that He was talking to Stoffel about the church plant. Stoffel’s expression suddenly changed from serious to quizzical as he felt the Lord’s call to plant a church. The following Tuesday, Stoffel received a public confirmation through a prophetic word that they were going to plant a church and that he was not allowed to advertise it.
On that same Tuesday night, 31 October – exactly 500 years to the day after the Protestant Reformation’s beginning, people started to join Linda & Stoffel, and the church was planted. This was significant because we felt that the Lord wanted to bring about another reformation.
Heaven & Earth Church expands to a larger property in Hermanus Central, Gateway Centre as the need grows for a larger venue and expansion towards hosting a ministry training center.
The School of Supernatural Ministry (a Bethel School plant) is ignited in Hermanus and overseen by Deans Patrick & Tracy Brady. School of Intimacy is birthed by Senior Leader, Stoffel Fourie and is run as a full time 1-year gap program where students experience a life totally transformed by the presence of God and sow into the Kingdom with Servant Hearts and Outreach. HSSM is designed to be a ministry training program where students embrace their royal identity, learn the values of the Kingdom and walk in the authority and power of Jesus the King.
Heaven & Earth Network of Churches is established in Africa who are growing in the radical love of Jesus and changing lives in the Northern territories of South Africa, Malawi, Lesotho, Botswana and spreading to Zambia and Mozambique.
Senior Leaders Linda & Stoffel Fourie, relocated back to Redding California to pursue further studies in Theology at BSSM as they took on an Apostolic oversight role of the Heaven & Earth Network of Churches and established leadership networks from the USA to support Jesus movements into nations.
Patrick & Tracy Brady were ordained as Senior Pastors in the absence of Linda & Stoffel Fourie taking over the reins of Heaven & Earth Church, Hermanus as a mighty Jesus movement is birthed, stewarding revival and igniting purpose, hope, and identity in generations to come. Stoffel & Linda Fourie returned to Heaven & Earth Ministries as Senior Leaders later that year with an even greater vision and passion for the transformation of Africa through the good news of the love of God through the finished work of Jesus Christ.
Momentum is growing through a full fivefold ministry team that has been brought together mightily by the Lord. Preparation for increase in every area is ongoing as we eagerly worship our King, bask in His love, and walk in the power of His Spirit.
When the call to plant this church was heard, the scripture Matthew 28:18-20 was laid on our hearts: “Jesus came and told his disciples, ‘I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son […]
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