After an extensive and successful career in tertiary education and especially the Medical University of Southern Africa, Ps Carel Berndt and his wife Mariët have been involved and  serving the Hatfield family since 1983 and was ordained as Senior Pastors couple of Hatfield Christian Church North in January 2003.

Ps Carel currently serves on the national core leader’s team of The Christian Network (TCN), an umbrella network of about 200 churches. He is currently the regional leader of the Gauteng Province and also the Gauteng  station leader where more than 80 senior pastors, pastors and religious leaders and functionaries  are related to him. Ps Carel has traveled extensively and has served the Lord in various countries of the world.

Ps Carel met his precious spouse, Mariët, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and they have been married for 37 years. They have four children, and two grandchildren.

Ps Carel has a passion for the lost, passion for the presence of God and to see this generation come to the knowledge and the Lordship of Jesus Christ. He is currently assisted by Ps Gebhardt Berndt, Ps Grant Neuper, Ps Marius van Biljon, Ps Shadrack Motswai, Directors Erik van Rhyn and Derick Stokes in seeing this vision come to fulfillment.