Rev. S S (Steven) Loots is the founder and President of Harvesters International Ministries (HIM) (1998); Harvest Aid (HA) (2002); Bibles for Believers (B4B) (2005); The Harvesters Bible School (HBS) (2008) and HIM Outreaches (2009).

Steven recently published a book titled "Personal Missionary Partnerships” and his second book “Fifteen Disciplines of a Disciple of Jesus” will be published soon.

Steven developed the " Harvesters Hub Church Planting Model ” © that is now widely used for strategic saturation church planting.

Steven (Fanie) is married to Hannalie, and they have two grown sons.

Steven completed his schooling at Jeppe High School for Boys where he was Head Student. He then went on to study at the Rand Afrikaans University (Now the University of Johannesburg) where he completed a (BA) and then a BA (Hons) degree. These studies where followed up by his Seminary training. After seven years of study he completed his National Service as a Chaplain in the Infantry. He was called to a local church as the senior pastor and served there for almost nine years.

After several years of church ministry, Steven felt the call to Missions. He worked with several large ministries, including Missions Without Borders, Every Home for Christ and International Campaigns, gaining experience in evangelism and church planting. He saw the need to move quickly into ripe harvest fields as doors open to the Gospel.

HIM was founded by Steven in 1998 and is currently represented in the USA, UK and South Africa, with projects in Malawi, Zambia, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Almost 5 000 new churches have been planted by HIM since 2000. Read more on the website www.mission.co.za

Harvesters has developed several highly effective models for church to church evangelism; discipleship; short term outreaches and for church planting - drawing on the experience of others and adapting it to the situation in Africa.

Harvest Aid was established in 2002 in response to the famine in Southern Africa and has several projects which aid Christian leaders and children. Read more on www.harvestaid.org

Bibles for Believers was founded in 2005 to meet the great need for the Word of God among born again believers. More on www.biblesforbelievers.org

The Harvesters Bible School trains pastors for each of the churches planted by HIM within walking distance from their village churches. Currently over 2 500 students are enrolled.

HIM Outreaches became a separate entity to better manage the large number of outreaches that HIM and B4B arrange each year.

Steven is the President of all five organizations.

Steven has preached in many countries in Europe, the former East Block, Africa the USA and Central America. He has spoken at conferences and is a sought after Missions motivator.

Steven can be contacted at easy2remember@mweb.co.za