Dave and Julie and their two sons, Jared and Justin, have been church planting missionaries in South Africa since 1986. After a brief period of orientation in Durban, they moved to Cape Town to survey the northern suburbs with the view to forming a church-panting team of missionaries. That team has started 25 churches, has developed the Paardeberg Mountain Retreat for Christian camping outside the city, and has created the Church Ministries Institute to train couples for ministry. In 2005 the Rudolphs began services in the town of Sedgefield on the Garden Route, five hours east of Cape Town. After four years of commuting to their ministries there, they moved to Wilderness in 2009 to join the other missionaries who were arriving to form the new Garden Route Team. Now Dave and Julie live in Knysna where they concentrate on township ministries and the Lagoonside Baptist Church.