Jan Strydom, VP - Global Career Development

Jan Strydom was born in Pretoria, raised in South Africa and received a BA with Honors in Social Studies from the University of Potchefstroom and a B Theology from CLF.  He did further post graduate studies at Unisa. His prior experience includes seven years in corporate business (Anglo American), four years as Registrar at the University of Vista and 13 years as a Pastor in a vibrant local church. Over the years Jan has also been the speaker at various national and international conferences, teaching on financial and marital issues.

Jan has been married to Alet since 1983 and they live in Cape Town, the mother city of South Africa. They have one daughter, Adonike. She is married to Hylton Strack and they have one daughter, Anabelle. Jan & Alet have been the National Directors of Marriage Ministries International since September 1997. Due to their passion to help people to become financially free, they came into contact with Crown Financial Ministries in 1999, and eventually became the South African National Directors in July 2001.  Jan has since been appointed as Vice President, Crown – Africa & Middle East, and took up these duties on April 1, 2005. As part of his responsibilities Jan was developing leaders in the area of Stewardship in all African and Arab speaking Middle Eastern countries. Since 1997 Jan has visited and worked in more than 27 countries worldwide and worked with more than 18 countries in Africa on a daily basis.

On May 1, 2011 Jan was appointed as Global Vice President – Career Development and is devoting all his time expanding the work of Crown Financial Ministries globally in this arena. He has developed Career Direct to be available on a global online platform in multiple languages e.g. English, Afrikaans, Russian and Croatian. Many new languages will be added in the near future e.g. Spanish, Portuguese, French and German.

Jan's passion is to see people of all nations become faithful stewardship with the time, talent and resources that God has given them.