Kevin Roy

I was born and grew up in Zambia, doing most of my schooling in Zimbabwe. On winning a scholarship to study Engineering I went up to Bristol University. It was there that I came to faith in Jesus Christ in 1969. After a short stint of teaching Maths and Science in London, I joined the Dorothea Mission which took me to South Africa. For nine years I served as an evangelist, mostly in South Africa, but also in Botswana, Zimbabwe and Swaziland. During this time I met and married Ina Kwant, the daughter of Dutch immigrants living in Waterval Boven. Further studies at the University of South Africa and the Baptist Theological College led to my ordination as a Baptist pastor, initially serving a church in Roodepoort. I ministered to other congregations as well as teaching at the Cape Town Baptist Seminary for seventeen years. During the last eleven years before my retirement, I served as pastor of the Muldersdrift Union Church in Mogale City, Gauteng.

My 46 years of Christian ministry in South Africa spanned the tumultuous years of transition from minority white rule to majority rule and all the emotions, joy, pain, excitement and disappointment those years brought. I am now retired, living with my daughter’s family on a farm outside Carlisle and learning to be an assistant farmer in my old age. Ina and I also have a son who lives with his family in Australia and another married son in Cape Town. We are destined to travel as long as health and finances permit.