Ed Roebert

Edmund Roebert was born in 1939 and began his ministry in the early sixties, in what was then known as the Hatfield Baptist Church (now Hatfield Christian Church).He grew up in East London where he attended Selbourne College, and gave his life wholeheartedly to the purposes of God from the age of 18 years when he was born again. Pastor Ed studied at the Baptist Theological College and also completed his Theology Degree at UNISA.In 1963 Ed Roebert became the senior pastor of the Hatfield Baptist Church in South Street. Over the next 20 years the church grew from strength to strength and in 1984 moved out of the Baptist denomination and became the Hatfield Christian Church - an independent charismatic church.Pastor Ed died of a heart attack at age 57 at the Union Buildings preparing to march with thousands of Christian leaders from 133 nations to Sammy Marks Square to demonstrate the love of God in the cause of reaching every person in the world with the good news of Jesus Christ by the year 2000.He was considered a pioneer of renewal in South Africa.