Frank Meulenbeld

CHIEF TRAINING OFFICER

EMERGENCY SERVICES CHAPLAINCY SOUTHERN AFRICA

Frank Meulenbeld was born in Horst in the Netherlands, on the 24^th of June 1969. 

As a teenager, during 1984, his entire family immigrated to Pretoria, in the then called Transvaal,

now known as Gauteng.

He completed his Matric at Hoërskool Erasmus, in Bronkhorstspruit and started working for SCORE

supermarkets. During November 1989 he got saved, and after being promoted to a senior

branch manager position at the SCORE Vryheid (KwaZulu-Natal) supermarket,

the Lord called him into full-time ministry.

In 1991 he started his fulltime studies in Theology and became a minister of religion of the

Baptist Union of Southern Africa in 1995. He started his ministry as full-time, but volunteer,

Chaplain to the Emergency Services in the then Roodepoort and Johannesburg Fire Brigades,

becoming the Chief Chaplain of the City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services in

July 2000.

On the 1^st of May 1996 he was one of the original 8 founder members of the Emergency Services

Chaplaincy (Southern Africa) and was appointed as its first Treasurer.

Since the growth of the ESC the position of Executive Officer was created, which later was changed to

Chief Executive Officer, and he was elected as the first EO / CEO of the ESC.

In January 1998, after the death of another founder member, Stan Esterhuizen,

who was the ESC’s first Training Officer, he was appointed as the Training Officer of the ESC.

Due to the growth of the ESC, more training officers were appointed and Frank was then appointed

 as Chief Training Officer.

On the 16th of August 2008, Frank was appointed as Chief training officer of the ESC(SA), and the position of CEO of the ESC(SA)

went to Allister Clark

He currently resides in Tshwane (Pretoria) with his wife Sharon.

 Contact Information:

P.O. Box 95164

Waterkloof 

0145

South Africa

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Cell : 082 821 7681

Fax : (086) 651-6680

E-Mail : chaplaincy@absamail.co.za