By Nobuhle L. Ngema
Siphiwosakhe Nobhevu, a senior pastor from Restoration Turning Point, in celebrating of their 7th year anniversary, Kwa-Thema, is one of children who survived by God’s grace, after his mother had a number of miscarriages every time she tried to have a child.
He believes that children precede their names, and he says his gift as his name stats, would be an ability to tell a story. He has a number of books he has published, including his Autobiography, Destiny with a subtitle from prison, ‘To be the Lord’s Prisoner’.
He was arrested at an early age for a group murder case, where someone’s life ended up being taken away from him as a gift.
“The whole experience broke me and exposed that am lost and wounded.”
At an age of 11 to 14 years, he had lost both my parents, and that trauma left him entirely broken both emotionally and psychologically. This changed his moral behaviour as a growing teen. He started to shift away from being a respectful child. Anger and impatient became things that tortured him when he needed support, he says. And that led him to search for what could build him together all over again.
He has learnt a lot in the department of Correctional Services. Some of the things he has learned is self-love and how to forgive himself – although he has suffered a lot of stigma from the community even after he was rehabilitated.
“Community can become another jail for you. How people can speak about you in comparison to others is not nice, it’s like you’re a nobody.”
But overall, the period of having a criminal record comes to an end – and you get deemed as a person by the same society that crucified you.
“Speaking of crucifixion,” he mentions how excited he is about the upcoming Easter Holidays. “Easter it’s a pagan word for Christian. Most Christians uses the word Passover as a memorial celebration of the victory which Jesus Christ accomplished through the cross and raising up again.”
Siphowakhe further mentioned how the event aid the believer psychologically and gives many people hope towards God’s unlimited power over circumstances that are beyond our reach, and gives others a chance to give their lives back unto God.
“Most churches will cook and travel to visit others, so an individual person who’s growing or living without a family they do get a chance to fellowship, reunion with otherrs who can relate to their life experiences and share all thing’s with them. “
So for us who believe towards the finish work of God, he added. “We are still reminded of his goodness.”
Siphowakhe is a firm believer of Jesus Christ, and dramas of how Jesus was taken by the mob of people to be given for the people’s sins unto Pilate will be shared for educational purposes, especially for the young ones. He believes in the existence of God, and believes if wasn’t for the Almighty, he wouldn’t be where he is.
He’ll be doing a Church Building Marathon on the 14th of June 2024.
For more information, he can be contacted on: 073 578 4522
