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When Mount Zion visionary Dr Nico Landman turned 70 this year, he determined this was not his age to retire. Rather, he believed this was his time for new things – and so with a pile of personal journals and an instruction from the Holy Spirit, he set out to write his first book.
The book, ‘The Journal, In Awe of The Great Geometrician’, edited by Dr Clifford Ferguson, was recently launched from Mount Zion Prayer Hill on the Beula Park International Conference Centre premises in Meadowdale.
While members of the Christian church from across South Africa and abroad have witnessed Dr Landman in the public light, speaking from the pulpit or involved in ministry events, not everyone knows that backstage he carries a pencil and notebook with him everywhere he goes. He has meticulously chronicled his journey with the Lord. The result: years and years of journals.
Dr Landman explained at the book’s launch: “To fit so many journals into a single book I had to find a golden thread connecting all of the accounts.”
He said that in reading through the pages of the books, he could see the Lord’s hand of sovereignty moving across the journal pages. “But of course, I realized the Lord Jesus was the ‘Golden Thread’.” With the Lord as focal point, Dr Landman and Dr Ferguson put together a single book from the multitude of chronicled accounts.
Dr Landman told guests to the launch he had been serving the Lord for as long as he can remember. He started pastoring at just 24 years old! He said that he believed he was mandated by the Lord to be a messenger of unity for the Body of Christ. He also believes his book is an encouragement to other believers, to step up in response to their call from the Lord.
His story displays how the Lord can achieve the impossible through a person who says, ‘Yes’ to their call, as he has. It explains how Dr Landman and his wife Mimi and family, together with their team, spearheaded the formation of the Beula Park International Conference Centre with its many facilities, including a ministry training centre and school, and the Mount Zion Prayer Hill. This was no easy feat… and no small accomplishment.
Reverend Jonathan Naiker, who is pastoral leader of Breakthrough Family Church and Kingdom Vision Ministry Network, explained that the Beula Park International Conference Centre and Mount Zion Prayer Hill served as a gathering place for Christians of all denominations who came to pray and be a part of various events held at the venue. “Mount Zion Prayer Hill serves as the hub, with over 400 visitors daily, with our Wednesday Upper Room Prayer meeting serving as a coming together of leaders and church congregants for mutual prayer and worship.”
He continued, “Beula Park is the home of Kingdom Vision Ministry Network, a network of over 180 Ministries; and Kingdom Vision Radio, which is an app-based radio station with people from as far a field as Japan tuning in to the regular broadcasts. Other ministries at Beula Park are the Go Movement – our evangelistic ministry; Daughters of Zion; a women-based ministry; and Cross Care Missions, our welfare wing.”
Glimpses of the man behind the Beula Park renown are also provided through the book. Readers will learn that Dr Landman was a superb athlete; and that he loves animals and could, in his words, “… run a zoo.” He said at the book launch that he had all kinds of animals – including three tortoises, donkeys and many sheep, among others. “We started with just 60 sheep and they have just multiplied… It’s kingdom business here… multiplication is the way of the kingdom… It’s in the air.”
Dr Landman said that from a young age he had been drawn to the Word of God. He said he had also witnessed miracles: blind eyes being opened, a girl in a wheelchair standing to walk. Still, he said that he has learned the sign and wonder is the Lord Himself and the biggest miracle: His presence among His people as a living God.
In his book, he speaks of his wife, Mimi as a Proverbs 31 woman and after explaining her enduring qualities, says she is rightfully known by those who love her as, ‘Mama Mimi’. He also honours his children and church family, including those who celebrated the launch of the book alongside him. He writes that his book is dedicated to the ‘living stones’ – those called out of darkness into the Lord’s marvelous light.
The second chapter of the book is devoted to Isaiah 55:11, a passage of scripture which says the Lord watches over His Word to perform it and speaks nothing that will return to Him empty without accomplishing that for which He has sent it. Considering this verse of scripture, he says he can look across the landscape of his life and see how the Lord has faithfully done what He said when He called him. He added that there were many promises still to be fulfilled, and that these too would be chronicled in journals still to come!
On turning 70, Dr Landman says, “I had planned many things for retirement. However, this isn’t my time to retire – rather to ‘re-fire’.” Indeed, for Dr Landman, things are just beginning to fire up.
The book, published by the Beula Park Academy and is available for R250 at www.beulapark.co.za or by calling 011 974 1771.
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Date published: 01/12/2024
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