I met Mary Naidoo at her stand — ‘The Jesus Business’ — at a recent Christian Expo in Durban. Intrigued by the dazzling array of Christian paintings, nativity scene models, and scripture-themed household items that she and her team were displaying , I asked her if I could interview her. […]
Author: Andre Viljoen
TBN in Africa boss wants to reach world with simple but powerful gospel of Christ
Meet Lucky Mbiko, the man at the helm of Christian television network TBN in Africa Luckly Khayalethu Mbiko remembers a time when he was about eight-years-old and he was standing in the fields looking after his grandmother’s cattle and wondering if there was anything for him beyond the mountains he […]
CHRISTMAS 2016 DISCOUNT CAMPAIGN Culture of reading Christian Book Discounters (CBD) was founded 21 years ago. It’s prime objective is to offer good quality Christian Literature to the-man-on-the-street at prices they can afford, and to promote a culture of reading amongst Christians. Today CBD helps churches in South African to […]
Award winning Christian rocker Adrian Sing says passion for Jesus is the key
All the glory is the fitting name of the song which earned Adrian Sing the Best Gospel Rock award at the SABC Crown Gospel Awards at the Durban ICC on Sunday. “I would like to give all the honor to God as without Him we would not be in this position […]
When the glory of the Lord fills the store
The glory of the Lord surrounded them as they sang last week, said Lydia Lincks, one of the members of a fiery worship team I had the privilege of meeting this week. This is not your everyday worship group. The 13 women and two men I was talking to are […]
Rainbow nation shows up at campus prayer service
Conflict exposes need for discipleship and unity among Christian students Hundreds of students, parents and Christian leaders worshiped God together and prayed together at a joyful, Spirit-filled prayer service at NMMU (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University) in Port Elizabeth on Sunday night. For a few precious hours the rainbow nation — […]
Double dose of God’s love dispensed at Johannesburg hospital
City transformation is their goal Last weekend a fired-up church outreach team went to Edenvale Hospital “to go love and pray for people” and got to pray and talk to almost every patient — about 150 people — during the two hour visiting time. “We started going through the different […]
Church in Port Elizabeth to apologise for apartheid-era forced removals
The South End Museum — which preserves the story of a once-vibrant, multicultural Port Elizabeth community that was subjected to apartheid-era forced removals in the 60s and 70s — will be the venue for a special service on the Day of Reconciliation (December 16 2016) at which the Church in the […]
Christ on our campuses: peacemakers step in where trust has been lost
You and your church can help bring reconciliation at this crucial moment in South Africa’s history I phoned Sacli’s Miles Giljam this afternoon to find out more about a Christian peacemaking initiative on South African university campuses caught up in a cycle of protest and violence that has shaken the […]
Bill Johnson leading conference in SA — and there’s a rugby connection!
Influential pastor, pioneering revivalist and author Bill Johnson will be leading a three-day Kingdom Conference in Johannesburg in February next year — and the timing of his first ever ministry trip to South Africa has more than a little to do with Springbok rugby! To understand the divinely-inspired rugby link […]

