South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
About 3 000 Christians from diverse denominations and many different regions of South Africa joined a significant number of local and international Church leaders in Soweto on Saturday June 11 to participate in the South African Council of Church’s (SACC) ‘Singing a New Song’ campaign that followed the 1976 students’ […]
A team of child gumboot dancers are lighting-up the Emmanuel Child & Youth Care Centre (ECYCC) in the Karoo town of Middelburg through their creative determination and sparkling enthusiasm by expanding not only their own horizons, but boosting the potential of all the children in the home. “The Young Little […]
Prayer is the lifeline that the Roodt family have clung to during the last month after Rozaan Roodt was involved in a motorcycle accident on his way to work, which according to Dr Rinesh Chetty, specialist orthopaedic surgeon, left him with a level two mid back spinal fracture, spinal cord […]
Anneke Rabe has long had a heart for unity, for overcoming the old apartheid divisions, for rising above the racial categories of white, black, coloured and Indian to reconcile in Jesus Christ’s name as children of God, as brothers and sisters in Christ, as South Africans. 40 years later…the Church […]
A project in which former foes are working together to repair and rebuild eight Soweto high schools that were involved in the June 16 uprising is more than symbolic – it is powerful action. So says Dan Montsitsi, who was one of the leaders of the 1976 student uprising, more […]
Angus Buchan’s visits to six universites last month brought significant hope to Christian students who were disillusioned by ongoing protest action, says a student pastor who inspired the campus tour. SEE ANGUS BUCHAN’S MONTHLY WORD The truth about our students “I don’t think many parents realise the pressure that Christian […]
In the world fear and faith are mutually exclusive as the one weakens the other, however, in Spirit fear and faith are connected and strengthen each other as God is Spirit, He is the All-and-All-in-All of our faith and we experience Him in fear and trembling. When speaking about fear […]
God’s Word in Exodus 20:3-5 is both a command and a warning: “You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water […]
Watching the close-knit camaraderie of a group of young men sitting in front of me on the last day of the Karoo Mighty Men Conference (KMMC), I was inspired to ask for an interview with the four friends about their conference experience. A week later speaking to them by telephone […]
Many Karoo mighty men participated in building an altar at KMMC 2016 by each carrying a rock, which combined to create a heap of stones as a memorial to a defining moment in their lives at the place where they met with the Lord God Almighty. During the Saturday night […]