In our years of being associated with the Church in Newcastle, we had gone through the normal life cycles of ups and downs and seen and learnt things. We heard the best sermons, we enjoyed some of our best experiences, we experienced heartaches, we went through storms as is common to every man, and in all, Bro Steve’s life was a constant – a Word Christian.
We had the fortune of not only knowing Bro Steve as a pastor, but also as a father, a husband, an uncle, a grandfather, a neighbor, a friend, a coach, and everything in between and in all these he was a Christian first. Having watched Bro Steve through his life, we easily concluded that a Christian life was a joyous life to live.
Through the joy with which Bro Steve lived his Christian life, and the example that he was before us, he made us want to be the kind of father, the brother, the Christian that he was before us.
We will forever thank God for the life that was lived before us.
May God be a comfort to the Francis family and thank them for having shared their father with us.
The Mavuso Family
(David, Thando, Marrion, Samuel and Seth)
