About King David's Tent
Our Purpose and Vision
We encourage the restoration of hearts back to God.
King David's Tent is a mission movement that facilitates a Christ-centred and Spirit-led community where we encourage and equip believers to know and experience God and to take up the call to go and reveal His love and transformational power to their families, communities and to the nations.
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit - Matthew 28:19
We love to help and encourage people to know and experience God (His intimate presence, love and transformative power) and see hearts restored back to Him. We encourage and equip believers through Christ-centred, Holy Spirit empowered community and discipleship, encouraging them to answer the call of Christ to go and be a light in the darkness and to walk in their calling and purpose through empowered discipleship.
Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the labourers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into His harvest.” - Matthew 9:37–38
The vision laid on our hearts is to facilitate a gathering place for restoring people's hearts back to God. We see the need to build around agricultural land on a Kibuttz model and felt God highlight George - South Africa. The facilities are for equipping workers for the harvest, a place of rest for the weary (especially missionaries , pastors and families), and facilitating a learning centre for education and community transformation, where we can send out kingdom minded believers into any of the Seven Mountains of society. We support initiatives of like minded people, especially to help reach the poor, destitute and the vulnerable. This includes compassion ministries and practical serving and support.
He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’ - Acts 13:22.
Partnership
King David's Tent is a multi-generational, non-denominational missions movement, working with like-minded organisations who want to see transformation and reformation in their families, communities and the nations. We facilitate and host churches, ministries, groups, youth, conferences, retreats, events and programs. We believe that faith-based sustainability projects are a key to the future of missions. We have connected with Farming God's Way to offer agricultural training to individuals, communities and organisations. Teaching people to grow food, is a fundamental step in addressing poverty in Africa.
We partner with like-minded churches, ministries, mission organisations, and local communities to:
- Encourage each other and to build unity so that we can be more effective together in reaching the harvest
- To experience the diversity of gifts and cultures, as a key to growing in maturity and to help train, equip and facilitate our vision
- To support existing missions and needs first (where possible) by sending out equipped people to help
- Networking and creating awareness of what the needs are and who is serving in our communities
- Breaking down the silo mentality of missions and local churches, to encourage and support transformation. Together we are stronger. We are advocates for unity beyond the local church.
What We Do
We facilitate a Spirit-led, Christ-centred community and gathering place where we pursue God's presence and encourage believers to obey God’s call on their life. King David's tent is an equipping platform where we host and facilitate:
Mission Training and Equipping Programs
We equip and send out workers for the harvest into any sphere of society (the Seven Mountains). We focus on the following:
- Biblical Foundations (to know God)
- Worship, prayer and intercession
- God’s Presence (to experience God)
- Obedience to answering the call
- Identity and abiding in Christ (the new man)
- Evangelism and Healing
- Spiritual gifts
- Cultural & Discipleship training
- Leadership training
- Kingdom Entrepreneurship
- Apologetics, Worldview and Seven Mountains
- Practical application and short-term mission trips in Southern Africa
Training Facilities - Skills Development
Skills Development Training Programs
- Agriculture School - Farming God’s Way
- Digital Media and Technology School
- Business and Entrepreneur School
- Youth Development Gap Year Program
- Hospitality and Tourism School
Agriculture and Food Production Projects
- Faith-based sustainable agriculture with a Kibbutz model.
- Agriculture school - partnering with Farming God’s Way – teaching families and communities to feed themselves.
- Post processing of food for income producing opportunities on a profit for purpose basis to subsidise the mission.
- Support communities with seeds and seedlings.
- Gardens of Faithfulness - Farming God's Way.
- Food security, through regional and crop diversity through connected economies.
Hospitality, Camps and Conferences
We offer comfortable accommodation and facilities for guests who want a time of rest, re-connection, restoration and refreshing, in a safe family culture and community. We accommodate:
- Individuals, Couples, Families, Churches, Ministers and Missionaries
- Camps, groups and external ministries - gatherings, programs, meetings and conferences, events and special getaways.
- Youth groups and leadership programs.
We offer self-catering, B&B rooms, hostel rooms, and camping facilities for our guests and groups in a beautiful natural garden environment.
Community Transformation and Reformation
- We look for opportunities and projects in our local communities to help and serve wherever possible.
- We apply principles of empowerment and zero footprint missions in impoverished communities.
- We address the urgent need for more workers by equipping, connecting, communicating and networking to help bring support and resources to where there is a need.
- We partner with existing projects, ministries, missions and organisations to send out our students and missionaries to help and serve them as a priority.
- We raise up and equip workers to go and plant where they are led.
Principles and Values
- Our values and principles are Biblically grounded.
- Jesus Christ is our Lord and Saviour.
- We allow the Holy Spirit to lead, and give Him time to speak and then we obey Him.
- We drive culture based on kingdom values – “love” being at the top of the list.
- All people have a God-given inherent worth.
- We are a multi-generational, non-denominational mission movement.
- We love the church and encourage unity beyond local church - celebrating diversity.
- We encourage cross cultural learning.
- We create “Profit for Purpose” opportunities - profit going back to the missions.
- We empower people.
- We believe in stewardship, accountability, good governance and transparency before God.
Our Founding Team
The Lloyd family.
Gavin and Nicky serve as missionaries in George, South Africa with their children, Julia and Michael. They have served communities, churches and Christian organisations in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), Tarkastad, Lesotho and George. Part of our training includes culture and missions training in Mozambique through Unitas International.