A little bit of history was made on May 10 when seven young boys from an orphan village near Durban stepped onto the prestigious Stade Louis Stadium field (home of AS Monaco Football Club ) to play their first game in the Monaco Sainte Devote Sevens Tournament. The boys, who together […]
Tag: upliftment
Catching up with busy Kingdom entrepreneur, Elaine Watson
It is almost impossible to get an appointment with Elaine Watson, wife of former Southern Kings rugby captain, Luke Watson, due to her busy schedule after the recent launch of the Goodnight Market in Port Elizabeth, of which she is a founder member. The Goodnight Market is the smaller, yet […]
Teacher finds calling at underprivileged school after horror bus accident
A troubled boy’s kiss on his head is what Alfie Blume will always remember of the horrific accident which changed the direction of his teaching career. Blume was the Head of Department and under-11 rugby coach at Cradock Primary School, when the school bus with 60 children on their way […]
From life skills to eternal life
Upliftment centre provides new hope for unemployed They come for life skills; they leave with eternal life. That is the testimony of the remarkably high percentage of students who make first time commitments to Jesus while attending a Gauteng-based skills training and development centre which offers them six accredited, market-related […]
Unashamedly Ethical recognises contributions to justice and upliftment
Unashamedly Ethical in the Western Cape has presented Recognition Awards to men and women representing 38 initiatives which have exhibited great character and ethical behaviour and contributed to improving the quality of life of others. The awards, which were made in 9 categories of public life, were announced at a […]
Giving impoverished SA youth a REAL START in life
I recently spent a few days in George as an observer at a camp that happens once a year at the start of a year-long youth development programme. I came away from the camp bubbling with excitement for the future if we have brilliant programmes like this one for the […]
Faithful PE street feeder’s prayer is answered
Amazing testimony of perseverance in obeying call of God When Port Elizabeth domestic worker Joyce Ncamisa lost her pride-and-joy — her law-student son, Thembisile — in a fatal workplace accident in 2001 she felt God tell her that there were a lot of street children who needed her help. Soon […]
NMB Deputy Mayor makes surprise request to partner Church in city upliftment
Nelson Mandela Bay Deputy Mayor Chippa Ngcolomba surprised church leaders today when he made an unscheduled appearance at a church workshop and asked if the muncipality could join the churches in a city upliftment initiative. The church leaders at the workshop were undergoing training by development analyst Professor Deon Pretorius, to […]
E.Cape farmer brothers meeting maths, spiritual needs
Alexandria farmer brothers, Paul and Stephen Fick, who are also both consulting engineers and in their sixties, are helping solve a mathematics teaching crisis in a local township school — and they are involving their church in the lives of the learners. Today the Fick brothers are partnering with the […]
The plight of the poor
[notice]Pastor Afrika Mhlophe considers the situation of poor people and the Biblical injunction to care for them.[/notice] The recently released matric results have again reminded us of the difference that exist between resourced and under resourced schools. Excellent academic achievement is something of a norm for resourced schools […]