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Frank and Beulah started St James church in Kenilworth Cape Town in 1968.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0the early years the Church experienced a wonderful visitation of God\u2019s
presence, and blessing. About 20 years later an event called the St James
massacre took place. Both events resulted in an explosion of evangelism and\u00a0under God the church grew exceptionally.<\/p>\n

Frank and Beulah retired from St James in 1999\/2000 to take the job of
Presiding Bishop. They retired in 2010 and ran a large Bible study in their home in Bergvliet\u00a0in Cape Town until retiring in Hermanus in the Western Cape where they\u00a0remain active in ministry of various kinds.<\/p>\n

Frank also obtained a BTH (Honours) from the\u00a0University of the Western Cape.<\/p>\n

Frank has authored a number of books the latest being \u201cGod said Yes\u201d. This is\u00a0the story of the early days of St James church.<\/p>\n

Beulah is the author of \u201cA mothers touch\u201d and \u201cHealing the mothers heart\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Frank and Beulah started St James church in Kenilworth Cape Town in 1968. In\u00a0the early years the Church experienced a wonderful visitation of God\u2019spresence, and blessing. About 20 years later an event called the St Jamesmassacre took place. Both events resulted in an explosion of evangelism and\u00a0under God the church grew exceptionally. Frank and Beulah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

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Frank Retief was born in Cape Town in 1942. He was converted to Jesus Christ at a Scripture Union camp in 1958.\u00a0 With his conversion there was placed in his heart a deep conviction that all men and women had an eternal destiny of either everlasting life or everlasting banishment from God and the person who makes the difference was Jesus Christ.<\/p>

Frank trained at the Bible institute of South Africa and graduated in 1965.\u00a0 He was invited to join the ministry of the Church of England in South Africa, a small Evangelical Anglican denomination.\u00a0 He served as a curate to Bishop Stephen Bradley at Christ church Pinetown KZN, until 1968 where he and his new wife Beulah were sent back to Cape Town to start a new church in Kenilworth, Cape Town.\u00a0 They served at St James church in Cape Town for 31 years.\u00a0 He retired as rector of St James church to become the Presiding Bishop of the Church of England in South Africa.\u00a0 He retired from this position in 2010.<\/p>

North West University conferred an honorary doctorate on Frank on 20th<\/sup> May 2011.\u00a0 It was PHILOSPHIAE DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA THEOLOGY.<\/p>

This was a great surprise and Frank thought he was totally unworthy of such an honour from such an internationally respected institution. Nevertheless it was done and Frank is very grateful.<\/p>

He and Beulah live in Bergvliet in Cape Town and remain active in ministry through preaching, teaching , voluntary pastoral work and writing.\u00a0 He has authored a number of books.\u00a0 His two latest releases are SAFE \u2013 how to be sure of the love of God, and a biography of Festo Kivengere the famous Ugandan bishop who was a great evangelist and a man of great courage. During his time he and his colleagues had to face up to the wrath of Idi Amin, one of Africa\u2019s worst dictators.<\/p>

Frank and Beulah have 3 grown up children and 7 grandchildren.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankretief.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankretief.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankretief.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankretief.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frankretief.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frankretief.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frankretief.co.za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}