Giles Hartman
Giles Hartman.
Contact information:
Pst. Dr. Giles is available 24 hours via WhatsApp on +27 78 2946386. Feel free to contact him for prayer support of ministry questions.
Connect with us: YouTube | FaceBook (SAFRP) | FaceBook (New Creation Church) | Website
Giles Hartman joined Find Christian Links in 2025 as Director of Discipleship, Teaching, and Prayer.
About Giles:
Medical Doctor to Pastoral Teaching Missionary
Introduction I’m Giles Hartman, born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1970 where I grew up initially in Johannesburg, but ultimately spent most of my formative years in Cape Town. In Cape Town I was an active member of my church Sunday school from the age of 7 and gave my life to Jesus at the age of 10. Being academically successful, I graduated High School as one of the country’s top matriculants and went to medical school at the University of Cape Town where I then graduated as a medical doctor with honors. I did my internship at the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994 at Groote Schuur Hospital, the famous heart transplant hospital and left for the United Kingdom shortly thereafter.
Contact information:
Pst. Dr. Giles is available 24 hours via WhatsApp on +27 78 2946386. Feel free to contact him for prayer support of ministry questions.
Connect with us: YouTube | FaceBook (SAFRP) | FaceBook (New Creation Church) | Website
Giles Hartman joined Find Christian Links in 2025 as Director of Discipleship, Teaching, and Prayer.
About Giles:
Medical Doctor to Pastoral Teaching Missionary
Introduction I’m Giles Hartman, born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1970 where I grew up initially in Johannesburg, but ultimately spent most of my formative years in Cape Town. In Cape Town I was an active member of my church Sunday school from the age of 7 and gave my life to Jesus at the age of 10. Being academically successful, I graduated High School as one of the country’s top matriculants and went to medical school at the University of Cape Town where I then graduated as a medical doctor with honors. I did my internship at the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994 at Groote Schuur Hospital, the famous heart transplant hospital and left for the United Kingdom shortly thereafter.
It was in England that I specialized in the field of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, going into the research field at both the Universities of Oxford and Bristol. During this time in the UK, I hardly attended church and got caught up in Britain’s very secular lifestyle, so different from the South Africa that I had grown up in. After 10 years of research and specialization it became apparent to the world and me that my home country of South Africa was facing a healthcare disaster with the HIV/AIDS pandemic for which my specialization and research was ideally suited. I made the decision to return to South Africa in 2004 looking for opportunities to address the burgeoning mortality from AIDS.
Back in South Africa addressing healthcare needs
As soon as I returned to my native country, I had to refamiliarize myself with the healthcare system that I had been away from for a decade. These were very busy times as antiretrovirals had not been endorsed by the government of the day despite their proven lifesaving as well as maternal-child transmission preventative effect. Taking over as the head of a hospital in the university town of Grahamstown which was at the epicenter of the pandemic, I embarked on a program of getting the South African government to align with the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Although an entire book could be written about this period of my life, I found that the personal and professional challenges I encountered from an initially hostile government and the sheer workload of each day drew me closer to my Lord Jesus Christ who had never stopped walking beside me and who I became increasingly aware of. Ultimately the South African Government signed the PEPFAR Partnership Framework in Washington in December 2010 with the subsequent roll out of anti-retroviral medication causing the average lifeexpectancy of South Africans to rise to its current level of 65 years from its nadir of 35 at the height of the South African AIDS pandemic. Without doubt I was granted divine favor and protection during this entire period and I realize that all glory must go to God.
Drawing closer to Jesus
After being in State hospital employment for the period of AIDS activism I decided to step out into private clinical medicine for a time. It was during this period that I was able to reflect on the preceding years and, seeing how I could not have achieved what I had without the guidance, protection and favor of God, I began an intense time of devotion to seeking Him. At this stage I became involved with a number of churches both in Australia and South Africa facilitating a number of diverse ministry projects in addition to my regular clinical work. I became increasingly aware of the centrality of the Gospel of Grace and the finished work of Jesus as our source of righteousness and favor with God apart from our works. This was a fundamental shift for me, who had always believed in hard work being the source of anything worthwhile! Over the ensuing years I studied God’s Word diligently in private and read voraciously about the Person and Work of Christ. After around 5 years I was called back into the State sector to assist failing hospitals in a few provinces in South Africa while at the same time becoming more involved in local church ministry wherever I found myself.
Total Commitment to God
At the end of 2019 I decided to emigrate to New Zealand to join my sister there as I was beginning to feel burnt out from the constant struggles of heading up a State hospital in South Africa. I resigned my job and put my house in Kwa-Zulu Natal, a subtropical province of South Africa, on the market and was due to fly out in March 2020 to Wellington, New Zealand. And then COVID happened. New Zealand locked down and I was now in a position where I was between jobs and homes. Deciding to move to Cape Town to start a new private practice after it became apparent towards the end of 2020 that the COVID pandemic was going to persist for at least another year, I found myself in the small coastal town of Hermanus, just outside Cape Town setting up this new doctor’s surgery. However, South Africa has very high levels of crime and shortly after opening the practice in 2021 I fell victim to an attempted murder and kidnapping which left me bound and dumped on the mountains surrounding Hermanus with a fractured skull. Again, my precious Lord Jesus intervened and I was miraculously saved and made a full recovery with the perpetrator being apprehended within days. It was during this period of convalescence that I had a revelation of the need to reach the lost in this world and that nothing short of total commitment to God would do. I drew up a personal mission statement which reads:
1.Total obedience to God empowered by the Holy Spirit through His 7-fold nature of obedience, wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, might and fear of the LORD (Isaiah 11:2)
2.To maximize my effectiveness for God’s Kingdom through total reliance on Jesus
Recently I left Hermanus and the Western Cape and headed up north into South Africa ultimately joining a ministry in the Limpopo province which is missional and training, meaning in addition to going on mission trips into Africa, we also train students to fulfil their calling to go on missions. After completely immersing myself in study and church activities which has seen me obtain 5 Pastoral Ministry qualifications online via an Australian Bible College called Axx (previously Harvest Bible College) including a full Licenciate of Pastoral Leadership, Apologetics and Exegesis, my immediate plan was to follow an ordination pathway through the Christian Leaders Institute and a formal Christian Ministry degree. I am now a licensed ordained minister, wedding and funeral officiant, and look forward to being a Kingdom Builder in God's Kingdom with internationally recognised ordination lending credibility to my ministry in South Africa and beyond. CLI and the CLA have allowed this medical doctor to gain credibility amongst the local and international clergy that I interact with now that I have left full-time clinical medicine.
At CLI there are so many opportunities and integrate CLI and Axx learning into teaching in my role as the Lead Pastor and Teacher of the students as well as run a Soul Center guided by those in leadership positions at CLI who have established Soul Centers in the Southern African region. The SAFRP New Creation Church is the planter of 3 additional churches in Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. Churches are rapidly being planted in Uganda and Myanmar at the time of this writing under the SAFRP New Creation Church Umbrella which again falls under the Christian Leaders Alliance and recently the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) Search for Jesus Network.
I have returned to the Province of Gauteng as of January 2025 and founded the South African Family Relief Project (SAFRP) New Creation Church on a farm project for the destitute and blessed with a quaint new wooden church on the farm where the roar of lions are often heard in the early morning hours from our neighbour's game farm. In return our humble SAFRP New Creation Church roars with that of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah where we lift up our praise to the one and only true God, Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMaschiach!"
We serve 50 to 60 souls on-site as well as have a social media footprint on YouTube and Facebook. All of the sacraments are performed at the church including weddings and funerals, Holy Communion and infant dedication and adult immersion baptism.
Google Map Location
The Founders and Directors of the SAFRP, which is a registered NPC (Not-for-Profit Company) are Mrs Leigh Du Preez and her husband Mr Marius Du Preez, both of whom serve on the SAFRP New Creation Church Board as well as own the farm and the NPC which is registered as such with the South African Companies and Intellectual Property Council since 2019 with registration number 2019/295687/08
Soul Center Webpage Website
CLC Directory Link CLA Directory
Back in South Africa addressing healthcare needs
As soon as I returned to my native country, I had to refamiliarize myself with the healthcare system that I had been away from for a decade. These were very busy times as antiretrovirals had not been endorsed by the government of the day despite their proven lifesaving as well as maternal-child transmission preventative effect. Taking over as the head of a hospital in the university town of Grahamstown which was at the epicenter of the pandemic, I embarked on a program of getting the South African government to align with the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Although an entire book could be written about this period of my life, I found that the personal and professional challenges I encountered from an initially hostile government and the sheer workload of each day drew me closer to my Lord Jesus Christ who had never stopped walking beside me and who I became increasingly aware of. Ultimately the South African Government signed the PEPFAR Partnership Framework in Washington in December 2010 with the subsequent roll out of anti-retroviral medication causing the average lifeexpectancy of South Africans to rise to its current level of 65 years from its nadir of 35 at the height of the South African AIDS pandemic. Without doubt I was granted divine favor and protection during this entire period and I realize that all glory must go to God.
Drawing closer to Jesus
After being in State hospital employment for the period of AIDS activism I decided to step out into private clinical medicine for a time. It was during this period that I was able to reflect on the preceding years and, seeing how I could not have achieved what I had without the guidance, protection and favor of God, I began an intense time of devotion to seeking Him. At this stage I became involved with a number of churches both in Australia and South Africa facilitating a number of diverse ministry projects in addition to my regular clinical work. I became increasingly aware of the centrality of the Gospel of Grace and the finished work of Jesus as our source of righteousness and favor with God apart from our works. This was a fundamental shift for me, who had always believed in hard work being the source of anything worthwhile! Over the ensuing years I studied God’s Word diligently in private and read voraciously about the Person and Work of Christ. After around 5 years I was called back into the State sector to assist failing hospitals in a few provinces in South Africa while at the same time becoming more involved in local church ministry wherever I found myself.
Total Commitment to God
At the end of 2019 I decided to emigrate to New Zealand to join my sister there as I was beginning to feel burnt out from the constant struggles of heading up a State hospital in South Africa. I resigned my job and put my house in Kwa-Zulu Natal, a subtropical province of South Africa, on the market and was due to fly out in March 2020 to Wellington, New Zealand. And then COVID happened. New Zealand locked down and I was now in a position where I was between jobs and homes. Deciding to move to Cape Town to start a new private practice after it became apparent towards the end of 2020 that the COVID pandemic was going to persist for at least another year, I found myself in the small coastal town of Hermanus, just outside Cape Town setting up this new doctor’s surgery. However, South Africa has very high levels of crime and shortly after opening the practice in 2021 I fell victim to an attempted murder and kidnapping which left me bound and dumped on the mountains surrounding Hermanus with a fractured skull. Again, my precious Lord Jesus intervened and I was miraculously saved and made a full recovery with the perpetrator being apprehended within days. It was during this period of convalescence that I had a revelation of the need to reach the lost in this world and that nothing short of total commitment to God would do. I drew up a personal mission statement which reads:
1.Total obedience to God empowered by the Holy Spirit through His 7-fold nature of obedience, wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, might and fear of the LORD (Isaiah 11:2)
2.To maximize my effectiveness for God’s Kingdom through total reliance on Jesus
Recently I left Hermanus and the Western Cape and headed up north into South Africa ultimately joining a ministry in the Limpopo province which is missional and training, meaning in addition to going on mission trips into Africa, we also train students to fulfil their calling to go on missions. After completely immersing myself in study and church activities which has seen me obtain 5 Pastoral Ministry qualifications online via an Australian Bible College called Axx (previously Harvest Bible College) including a full Licenciate of Pastoral Leadership, Apologetics and Exegesis, my immediate plan was to follow an ordination pathway through the Christian Leaders Institute and a formal Christian Ministry degree. I am now a licensed ordained minister, wedding and funeral officiant, and look forward to being a Kingdom Builder in God's Kingdom with internationally recognised ordination lending credibility to my ministry in South Africa and beyond. CLI and the CLA have allowed this medical doctor to gain credibility amongst the local and international clergy that I interact with now that I have left full-time clinical medicine.
At CLI there are so many opportunities and integrate CLI and Axx learning into teaching in my role as the Lead Pastor and Teacher of the students as well as run a Soul Center guided by those in leadership positions at CLI who have established Soul Centers in the Southern African region. The SAFRP New Creation Church is the planter of 3 additional churches in Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. Churches are rapidly being planted in Uganda and Myanmar at the time of this writing under the SAFRP New Creation Church Umbrella which again falls under the Christian Leaders Alliance and recently the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) Search for Jesus Network.
I have returned to the Province of Gauteng as of January 2025 and founded the South African Family Relief Project (SAFRP) New Creation Church on a farm project for the destitute and blessed with a quaint new wooden church on the farm where the roar of lions are often heard in the early morning hours from our neighbour's game farm. In return our humble SAFRP New Creation Church roars with that of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah where we lift up our praise to the one and only true God, Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMaschiach!"
We serve 50 to 60 souls on-site as well as have a social media footprint on YouTube and Facebook. All of the sacraments are performed at the church including weddings and funerals, Holy Communion and infant dedication and adult immersion baptism.
Google Map Location
The Founders and Directors of the SAFRP, which is a registered NPC (Not-for-Profit Company) are Mrs Leigh Du Preez and her husband Mr Marius Du Preez, both of whom serve on the SAFRP New Creation Church Board as well as own the farm and the NPC which is registered as such with the South African Companies and Intellectual Property Council since 2019 with registration number 2019/295687/08
Soul Center Webpage Website
CLC Directory Link CLA Directory
