The January 21-23, 2021 Deep South Founders Conference “On Good Works” gathered in Brandon, Mississippi, at Grace Baptist Church. Nico van Zyl served as our main speaker.
Other speakers included Thomas Winn of Grace Baptist Church, Brandon MS, Adam Haney of Reformation Church, Baker LA, Don Elbourne, of Lakeshore Baptist Church, Bay St. Louis, MS, Mark Gervais of Grace Fellowship Baptist Church, Robertsdale AL, and Ligon Duncan of Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson MS.
Our attention focused “On Good Works” from The 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith.
Nico van Zyl was born in 1977 in Pretoria, South Africa. He grew up in Bloemfontein and graduated in 2003 with a Masters in Theology at the University of the Free State. Nico has been involved in evangelism and missionary work since 1996 across Africa and Asia. He worked as a missionary and teacher in KwaZulu Natal for 7 years at KwaSizabantu Mission Station. He has been involved with online evangelism and discipleship on various platforms with SAAWE (South African Action For World Evangelization) Global Media Outreach and Truths Transforms. With SAAWE he also worked to mobilize the church in South Africa for missions and did numerous outreaches to Muslims and least evangelized people groups in South Africa. He is a Pastor of Birchleigh Baptist Church in Kempton Park and the Conference Manager of African Pastors’ Conferences since 2016, a ministry that equips Pastors and Bible teachers for the ministry. He is married to Roxanne and they have a baby boy, Nicolas. They live together in Midrand, South Africa.