Pastor Jo Swart
“We love our church, our spiritual home that we get to share with the best people.”
It is rare that you meet someone who truly blows you away, someone who inspires you to become a better person – not by their words, but by their actions. Jo Swart is one such individual, a passionate and fiery woman with a heart for helping and serving others. Jo is not only a pastor at LIFE Church in Somerset West, but she also runs the local night shelter for the destitute, as well as a pre-school for underprivileged children too. Jo is a dynamo who does it all – she is beautiful, she is humble, she is extremely powerful – and she is being used mightily for Christ, shining His light in all that she does.
“The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.” – Proverbs 29:7
Q. You and your hubby, Chris, run a phenomenal church, focussed on motivating others to “find, live, and share life in God”. Please tell us about this?
From a very young age Chris and I were in Sunday school together, led youth together, and then got married in South Side Church, Sun Valley. We went our church, our spiritual home that we get to share with the best people. We are a part of the Assemblies of God group, and are especially proud of this and grateful for the culture we share. We have loved and led the church for 22 years. We have also had the privilege of bringing up our children in it, from the moment they were born – this has been their life. They serve in the church – all out of their own personal relationship with Jesus. The years were not all easy, we fought hard to bring out the vision God gave us. Sometimes I wanted to quit and do something else, at other times Chris wanted to, but never at the same time –thank the Lord. We are so different, which has been the glue, and over the years we have become stuck on God and His plan. We are so grateful that in spite of us, God knows. Now Sunday after Sunday we are witnessing what we believed for in years past, and are trusting for more.
