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Published on Saturday, September 06, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
NORTHRIDGE - It's a long way from South Africa to Northridge, but the Rev. Leslie Peters undertook the journey because he believes God directed him to do mission work in the San Fernando Valley.
Peters, who became a pastor at age 28, was already leading a church he had founded in 1990 in South Africa when he decided to emigrate. It was a nondenominational, Full Gospel-oriented church in the city of his birth, Durban, on Africa's southeast coast.
"In the midst of 1997, the Lord directed me to come to the United States to equip people to reap the harvest that Jesus Christ has given us," Peters said in his distinctive South African accent.
"It wasn't an overnight decision. How did I come to be in Northridge? I went on the Internet, asked God where he wanted me to go. He wanted me to come to Los Angeles - I had never been here before - and then he directed me to this place called Northridge," said Peters, who arrived with his wife, Edna, and their three children on Sept. 1, 1998
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