He’s prayed and prayed and prayed some more, and it seemed to have worked: this weekend, our favourite evangelist will be holding a mass prayer gathering in Mitchells Plain in honour of the impending Cape Town rain.

Yea boi.

He is so convinced that it will rain, in fact, that Angus Buchan is calling everyone to “take your soap and your towel and have the best shower that you’ve [had] for three years,” reports News24.

Does that mean God has forgiven Cape Town?

On a break from his busy schedule, Buchan spoke to News24 telephonically while riding his horse. I mean, what else would he be doing?

He said he was “confident that his God would pull through and bring much-needed rain to the parched Western Cape, which has been declared a disaster zone”:

“I can’t wait to come and join you. I’m looking forward to the people, to the people of Cape Town,” said Buchan.

Of course, all jokes aside, the mass prayer meeting is not just about the rain:

“The rain will come, I’m not backing off from my statement,” he said.

“But my concern is for the desperate situation that the people in Mitchells Plain are in at the moment, you know,” he added.

“I’m talking about gangsterism; I’m talking about wanton murder; I’m talking about prostitution; I’m talking about drug addiction; alcoholism. I’m talking about the suppression of people in poverty.”

Now that’s something we can all agree on, although I don’t think praying is going to help all that much.

Waxing lyrical, Buchan dropped a quote from the Bible, and said he “called God to Cape Town, where he will be holding the free event at the Swartklip sports field in Mitchells Plain”:

He was expecting at least 300 busloads of people and farmers from as far afield as Worcester and Caledon, as well as their staff members.

“We’re looking forward to an incredible encounter with a living God who is THE weatherman,” said the man on whose life the film Faith Like Potatoes is based.

Bussing in poeple? Isn’t that what the ANC does?

[source:news24]