Born in Canada, Lourens Oberholzer grew up inSouth Africa and got his BA degree in 1984, majoring in English, Communicationsand an African language. He had been writing and performing songs since the ageof 15. Immediately after he and his wife Thea got married, they went on theroad around Southern Africa, performing as musicians in clubs, bars andrestaurants. This they did professionally for 7 years and then,semi-professionally for 3 years. In 1993 he started lecturing in Johannesburgand began designing courses; amongst them media, public relations and asongwriting course that was primarily sponsored by Tusk Record Company andsuccessfully presented in 1996. Lourens wrote jingles and soundtracks forcommercials and documentaries, amongst them ABSA Bank, Longhorn Steakhouse and Dew Crisp Hydroponics.

In 1998, he acquired a TEFL certificate and,together with Thea, traveled to Taiwan where they taught English for 5 years. During this time, Lourens became the Director of English Studies at Tian TsaiAmerican Language School in Tainan. In 2003 he, together with his wife and agroup of friends which at that stage had been scattered all over the globe,came to Thailand and resided in Phuket for a period of 6 months where theyembarked on a serious extended brain-storming session. This was where ThreeLittle Fridges was born. In 2004 Lourens and the rest of the group moved toBangkok where the company was officially started and of which he is now themanaging director.

Hisdriving force and passion is Christ. He believes that everyone should pursuethat which God has called them to do.