While the country settled in and digested what was in many ways, astounding results, life itself continues. The task we set before ourselves still awaits our attention. The purpose for which the CDA was established has not changed. While there was obviously a tinge of dissapointment in the overall results, we are more than pleased with what we achieved in the short period we had to establish the CDA as well as gear up for the elections.
 
OUR THANKS
From the leadership, to all those who put in so much effort. To those who had the audacity to believe in real change and voted CDA. To all those who kept us vigilantly in your prayers. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts and can only say, we are proud to be associated with you. Men and women of commitment who have walked the talk.
 
RUN UP TO ELECTIONS
The CDA leadership, with foresight, recognised way back that a split in the ANC was imminent. We also recognised that the DA had drifted further and further into apartheid style marketing and was using people’s fears to canvas votes. This in our opinion would lead to two things.
1) ANC supporters who become lethargic would be re-mobilised as a result of any split and would flock to the polls, therefore increasing the number of ANC votes.
2) People would be conned by the DA fear tactics and instead of voting for principles they believes in, would forfeit these and vote based on fear.
We understood only too clearly that the days of individualistic parties was numbered and that the only future for Christian politics was from a platform of unity. Out of this wisdom, the CDA was born.

EMAIL RECEIVED
Below is an extract from an Email received, which more than summarises the current situation in South Africa and clearly highlights the need for us to stay firm, so that, as God begins to change the hearts of men and women, we are here for them. Providing a political home to those who seek God’s face.
 
“I had, the day after the elections, rushed off the join the Mighty Men conference and to be honest was more excited about that, than I was about our national elections. Like most, I did not realise the implications of voting – at all!
 
On the first morning, I was just caught up in worship and was standing there in my own thoughts looking at all the people around me. It was as if scales fell off my eyes and I looked at all of these men and realised that they, by a vast majority, had the day before, voted in favour of pornography. That almost all of us, including me, had voted our support for abortion. I couldn’t believe as I looked around me, that here was two hundred thousand men raising their arms to God – one day after turning their backs on Him.
 
With a heavy heart I realised, that as we stood there, we definitely were not Mighty Men at all – certainly not in the eyes of God. We had failed him when it counted most. When the Roman soldier asked if we knew Christ, we had said no. I left that same morning and went back home, unable to live with my own hypocrisy.
 
The following few days God showed me shocking images of what my vote had helped bring about. Horrible pictures of marriages broken and innocent unborn being murdered. Amongst many tears I repented and as I did, amazingly, it allowed God to also open my eyes to so many others areas of my life that were controlled by my own wisdom – areas where I no longer served Him but satan.
 
I give you today, the same commitment I gave to God – never again will I vote against Biblical principles. Never again will I deny Christ in any aspect of my life. Never again will I allow my pride as Christian man to be taken from me. From this day I vow to become a real Mighty Man – not in the eyes of man but in the eyes of God.”
 
THE WAY FORWARD
There is only one way – forward – in unity.
 
Already we have plans in place, strategies being formulated. We realise that the fight before us is not an overnight one but one that must be fought with an eye on the long term prize. Germany’s ruling Christian Democratic Union did not achieve instant success. Nor so any of the powerful Christian parties across the globe.
 
What it will take is us giving bigger than we have before. Fighting harder than we have and shouting louder than before. From the CDA leadership, we can with all honesty say this. Even when there is only one of us left, that one will continue to stand. Down to the very last breathe of the very last one, we will remain true.
 
The CDA is not in politics simply to win, We are here, every last man and women because of a commitment to the will of God. There are no alternatives for us. There are no second choices. To the end, we will fight this fight – until we see the victory God has promised.
 
We are a new political brand – a fresh alternative and the 2009 elections have made it possible for everyone to know about us. For South Africans across every province to realise that the CDA has been founded. That Christians are beginning to unite as one voice politically. That already six different parties have come together for a common cause.
 
And while others view this with apprehension, for you and I it is a moment of great excitement and a sign of things to come. We all know the scripture of the prophet Elijah (1 Kings 18:41-45) sending his servant to look at the skyline for clouds. Upon his return, after seven times - the servant said he had seen a cloud, the size of a man’s hand – and Elisha sent a warning take cover - the storms were coming!
 
To those who look at the CDA and see a small cloud, we say this. Look with the eyes of God and take cover – a political storm is coming that will restore Biblical governance to this nation!
 
IN CLOSING
Once again, to all the voters, all the members, who took a stand for their faith, we thank you. There is a song that says “Better is one day in Your house, than a thousand elsewhere.” Just so, better is one vote for Godly principles than a thousand who compromise. It might not appear so at face value, but we know that God promises us “As we sow we will reap.”
 
When future generations live in peace and prosperity they will not even realise it, but you know and God knows, that they will be walking in the fields made possible by your seeds planted now.
 
We leave you with a quote and the knowledge that the situations we face as a nation were created by following man’s ways and that only God and His ways are the solution. Man’s wisdom will fail us again – and when it does they will have to turn somewhere. When they do, the CDA will be waiting with the answers.
 
“You cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that caused the problem.” - Albert Einstein