South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
With more than 10 congregations in every ward of Nelson Mandela Bay, pastors and congregants can make a real difference in restoring services to the metro, says the NMB Church Leader Network (NMBCLN) in an email appeal to local church leaders. “We encourage all our church leaders to team up […]
Growing up in Soweto, Johannesburg, Jabu Ndaba and his boyhood friends admired older, violent, neighbourhood criminals who hijacked cars and trucks. He says they started stealing from shops at an early age. “Sometimes we got arrested. They spanked us, then released us.” Later Jabu and his friends graduated to stealing […]
‘Apartheid’ label has become antisemitic tool, says Olga Meshoe-Washington South African Friends of Israel (SAFI) published an open letter this week denouncing the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) report that blamed Israel’s “perpetual occupation” for the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians. In the letter, addressed to […]
Terry Gibbon, 55 achieved his goal last Saturday of breaking the world record for doing the most full sit-ups in an hour — but it proved tougher than he had anticipated. “I was confident from the start that I would make that record because I overachieved in training. But during […]
Three decades ago a young South African pastor’s mindset was radically shifted during a visit to Phola Phola township in Thokoza, Alberton, where he saw young children lying on the ground, passed out as a result of malnutrition. In an interview with Gateway News Pastor Bert Pretorius who was starting […]
Former paratrooper and fired-up Christian Terry Gibbon, 55 aims to break the world record for doing the most sit-ups in one hour during an event at Viva Gym, Gqeberha (PE), on Saturday. He says he is doing it to raise funds for Men of Honour, a men’s group that has […]
Episode 3 of a gripping account in three episodes of how Jesus turned a hardened, violent criminal into a passionate crusade evangelist who is now turning tens of thousands of hearts to the Lord across Africa When Samuel returned to Alexandra in obedience to God’s call he was not only […]
A veteran nurse who calmly subdued an armed man just after he shot dead three people at the New Somerset Hospital in Cape Town on Saturday May 7 attributes her heroism to prayer and God’s intervention. Sister Diane Seale, who hugged and chatted with the gunman until he agreed to […]
Episode 2 of a gripping account in three episodes of how Jesus turned a hardened, violent criminal into a passionate crusade evangelist who is now turning tens of thousands of hearts to the Lord across Africa After receiving Jesus as his Saviour and Lord in prison in late 2000 Samuel […]
Episode 1 of a gripping account in three episodes of how Jesus turned a hardened, violent criminal into a passionate crusade evangelist who is now turning tens of thousands of hearts to the Lord across Africa Samuel grew up in a poor home in central Mozambique. As a teenager he […]