Angus Buchan
Angus Buchan is a Christian author and evangelist based in South Africa. Early life. Buchan was born in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The son of immigrants from Scotland, he farmed maize and cattle in Zambia until he moved in 1976 to farm in Greytown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His wife, Jill, explained their decision to leave Zambia in a 2009 video: "We always agreed that when we had children we'd bring them up ourselves and not send them away. That's actually why we left Zambia. We didn't want to put them on a plane  and send them far from home". Shalom Ministries. In 1980, the Buchans started Shalom Ministries to preach in his local community. Its main purpose later became to go out to preach around Africa. In time, he became a full-time evangelist and so handed over to his sons the day-to-day running of his farm business. In 1998, he wrote a book about his life, "Faith Like Potatoes", which was turned into a film in 2006, with the same title. "Angus Buchan's Ordinary People" was a 2012 semi-biographical film about the growth of his ministry since the  1970s and how three fictional characters who attend one of his conferences then have their lives changed. Halalisani Farm School. Halalisani Farm School is a Christian farm school not administered by Shalom Ministries, but still supported. Children's Home The Children's Home was closed in 2016 due to legislative restrictions. Mighty Men Conference. The Mighty Men Conference was organised by Shalom Trust and was an annual gathering of Christian men and boys who camped in the outdoors. The conference's purposes were to worship and to connect with God as well as to grow spiritually. The conference began with  only 40 people but grew exponentially. By the sixth conference, in 2009, more than 200,000 attended. In the seventh and final conference the next year, more than 400,000 attended. The main emphasis in his message to men is "Husbands love your wives". Current work. He now presents a religious show, "Family Time", on e.tv on Friday evenings at 9:55 pm, which is mostly filmed from the Shalom farm. He is also a full-time evangelist who travels around the world and draws very large crowds. His down to earth message is powerful and aimed at all races and genders. Around  2018 his ministry was known for massive prayer meetings that started with the million person meeting in Bloemfontein on 22 April 2017. Following a prayer breakfast in Bloemfontein in March 2020 he was one of 67 attendees infected with COVID-19.