Posted: 12/03/2013 at 12:07pm | IP Logged

PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA (ANS) -- South African evangelist Angus Buchan says he has a hope to see “total revival” in the United States “starting with the men and spreading to the family, communities and nation as a whole”.

Angus Buchan holds his ‘agricultural manual’ (Bible) high at the Mighty Men USA at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday, November 17

Buchan arrived back in South Africa this week after speaking to more than 10,000 men at the second Mighty Men Conference (MMC) USA at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday night, November 17. A few months before he addressed a similar-sized gathering of men at the first MMMC USA at the Murphy Centre at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.

He said that God sent men from every corner of the USA to Bridgestone Arena for the latest MMC USA event.

“We have already started receiving very encouraging reports of changed lives and we are so grateful to the Lord Jesus for what He is doing. As John Wesley said, the definition of revival is ‘a people saturated with God’. Having experienced the MMC phenomenon in South Africa, we know this is the same Spirit, excitement and Holiness, we felt here.”

After hearing God tell him to mentor men, Buchan launched the MMC on his farm, Shalom, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa in 2004. Forty men attended the first event but the numbers of men increased exponentially each year, and there were more than 400 000 men at the 7th and final MMC on his farm in 2010. An inspiring film, “Faith Like Potatoes”, was made about Buchan's MMC journey in South Africa.

Scotty McCreery (Photo: American Idol)

US country music legend Charlie Daniels and singer Scotty McCreery, an “American Idol” winner, performed at the Nashville MMC USA, which was organized by Pastors G. Allen Jackson and Phillip Jackson from World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro. G. Allen Jackson, who also addressed the men, invited Buchan to speak at the first MMC USA after he and Buchan met as invited speakers at the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem, Israel, in 2011 and realized they shared a vision of impacting men through the truth of scripture.

While the Mighty Men movement is for men only, South African women are generally big MMC fans because they see that it leads to positive change in their men. Echoing this sentiment, a US woman, Jayme Akins, posted this on the Mighty Men USA Facebook page: “I am not a mighty man but I love the mighty men organization. Because of the conference in Nashville Sunday night I have my husband back! I told him I had a feeling he’d get his break through there and my intuition was right! I also told others there would be break through and miracles there they smiled politely like I was crazy. However who ever I told that too got their break through from the speaker from Africa. My husband was the one going through the divorce or pondering it waiting on Gods answer well he got it. DON’T DO IT!

Men worshiping God at Mighty Men USA on Sunday, November 17

“This organization is amazing and I’m thankful for it. It’s natural to see women praise we do it easier but to see men praise that’s beautiful it’s more intimate if that makes sense. You get to see these big tough guys humble themselves to someone greater. So from a woman I wanted to say thank you!”

Buchan said that besides speaking at the MMC USA, other highlights of his latest ministry trip to the USA were speaking at the World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro on Saturday, November 27 and Sunday, November 28, and visiting the 80 000 capacity Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas, where he and G. Allen Jackson prayed over the stadium. “By faith, we are believing one day to book the stadium [Cowboys] for Jesus,” said Buchan.

Asked about his priorities for this season, Buchan said: “To spend more time with the Lord Jesus. To spend more time with my family. To go only where the Lord Jesus directs us, namely the USA and Israel at the moment.”