publicized — via his Rabboni Centre Ministries in Garankuwa, South Africa’s Facebook page —
of about 1,000 eat the grass as part of a ritual to show that humans can be controlled by God’s spirit.
When the church members ate the grass, a few claimed they were cured of their ills.
One woman, 21-year-old law student Rosemary Phetha claimed she suffered from a sore
throat for an entire year. Once the young woman ingested the grass, she swore it healed her
malady, telling Times Live, that the preacher “turned me into a sheep and instructed me to
eat grass. Yes, we eat grass and we’re proud of it because it demonstrates that, with God’s
power, we can do anything.” the young congregant enthused.
paralyzed and unable to walk; yet, after she obeyed her pastor’s wishes, it resulted in a cure.
“I could not walk, but soon after eating the grass, as the pastor had ordered, I started gaining
strength, and an hour later, I could walk again,” Kgatle contends.
on top of his congregants as they were spread out across a lawn.
than what they bargained for when they became violently ill after ingesting the grass:
Throngs of followers wound up vomiting.
to slap and trample on one another. On Facebook, Daniels reportedly boasted about his
ability to put people to sleep and went as far as saying that he could even do so with arresting
officers:
You can leave them like this for six months. I love this, I don’t want to be bored. You can
even make police go to sleep when they come to arrest you,’ he said in a Facebook posting.
the good preacher also reportedly rakes in quite a bit of loot from the wares he is peddling from
“miracle” bumper stickers to anointing oils that possess special powers to calendars. If folks do
not have the cash to buy the allegedly blessed items, then the church will accept credit or debit cards.
seeing the pictures of the congregants eating grass, “Is this a scene in a movie…this can’t be real.
God created animals to chew grass and made human beings to dominate over animals.
Any person who reduces human beings to animals is definitely not of God.”
event was on Thursday, when he posted on Facebook:
God is at work and His people are testifying right now at the farm. TO GOD BE THE GLORY.’