Jan Gerritze Bantjes

===Prisoners of War AOB == Added by AR Swanepoel

Database ID: 2342
POW Number: 2622
Surname: BANTJES
Name: JAN GERRIT
Age: 36
Address: VENTERSDORP
District: POTCHEFSTROOM
Where Captured: PAARDEBERG
When Captured: 1900-02-27
Camp: DIYATALAWA
Country: CEYLON
Ship (to): RANEE
Ship (from): N/A

Jan Gerritze Bantjes & Dorothea Maria Bantjes (Born Swanepoel) got married in October 1892. They had fourteen children. The First two children Bennie and Jenny were halve brother & sister of the other twelve children.

Jan Gerritze Bantjes was a man of faith. He believed in God. He was very involved at his church.

He prayed for his daughter Johanna Magrietha Bantjes (married surname Marais) to receive the Holy Spirit. When she was only 14 years old. At the time he was very sick in bed. But he got up and came to the kitchen to pray for her.

Jan Gerritze Bantjes knew John G Lake, the Apostle of faith who came to SA and started the AFM church. Jan Gerritze Bantjes received a beautiful bible from John G Lake.John Lake was based in Portland, Oregon. A history of the church and its spread can be found at https://www.apostolicfaith.org/doctrinal-and-historical/sixth-and-b...