Rodney Howard-Browne was born in Port Elizabeth, S. A. , and got raised in the Eastern Cape and Transkei.
His wife, Adonica, was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and raised in Johannesburg. Rodney gave his heart to the Lord at the age of 5 and Adonica gave her heart to the Lord at the age of 17. They met and married in 1981 and right away went fulltime together into the traveling ministry. Over the following 6 years they traveled across Southern Africa, including Zimbabwe and Namibia, evangelizing the book of the Lord Jesus Christ. In 1983, they pioneered a church in the Northeastern Cape and pastored there for 2 years. After that, Rodney taught classes in a leading Bible Faculty for another 2 years.