Johan Mostert

Johan H. Mostert (email) Professor of Community Psychology B.S., Bethany Bible College B.A., University of South Africa B.A,. Hons, Stellenbosch University M.A., University of South Africa SMP (Senior Management Programme), Graduate School of Management, University of Pretoria D.Phil., University of Pretoria

Teaching psychology and training counselors at AGTS is not just an academic exercise for Johan Mostert. After several years in his early career as a pastor of the Apostolic Faith Mission in South Africa, he left the comfort of prosperous parish ministry to become a pastoral counselor among abused and abandoned children at the Villa Lubet Children’s village. For the next twenty years he served the needs of South Africa’s poorest and most vulnerable citizens, directing the National Welfare Department of his denomination for more than a decade. The severity of the AIDS crisis and compassion for the rural poor eventually led him to begin Chrisnet, a faith-based organization dedicated to channeling government grants to local churches and Christian sustainable development projects. He is widely recognized as a leading authority on local-church response to the global AIDS pandemic and travels frequently as a speaker and project consultant for faith-based development agencies. His passion as a teacher is to train counselors who will respond to human suffering wherever it is found with biblical and psychological skill and Spirit-led compassion.

Resources

• Chapel service on September 1, 2009 We give feedback on the annual AIDS Safari that the students took with me in 2009. I lead a team of students back to my native South Africa every summer for a time of exposure to the church’s response to the AIDS crisis in Africa.
• "The Psycho-Social Implications for the Pentecostal Academy in a Destabilized World", Encounter Journal, summer 2009, vol. 6, no. 1.
• PowerPoint : "A Struggle for Racial Unity: The Story of the Apostoloc Faith Mission of South Africa." 15.4 MB If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint you can download the PDF version (752 KB). (Posted 4/17/06)
• PowerPoint : "Developing Holistic Perspectives on Pentecostal Praxis" 12 MB. If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint you can download the PDF version (1.5 MB). (Posted 8/2/05)

Updated: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 7:39 PM