In Depth:  Erroll Hulse

Martin Holdt, well known as an evangelical and Reformed leader in South Africa, was suddenly taken from us on the last day of 2011.

Born in 1941, Martin was converted at the age of 19 in August 1960. He trained for the ministry at the Baptist Theological College in Johannesburg. He was then called to serve in a church of 16 members in Pietersburg (now Polokwane). In his first year there he embraced the doctrines of grace. This assembly grew significantly. Martin was then called to be the Baptist Union’s first home church planter and planted churches in Phalaborwa, Tzaneen and Newcastle before being called to an established church in East London.

The conflict in Iraq is different from any former war in the world.

The first difference is that a supreme dictator may be able to control weapons of mass destruction and thereby terrorise other nations.