South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
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 […]
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 — […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Book Review by Andre Viljoen I have just read this classic and can see why it has deeply touched the lives of millions of readers since it was first published in 2002. Jack Frost shares key lessons from his lifelong quest for the freedom and fulfilment that he eventually found […]
Homeless ministry Acts of Bravery certainly had a brave start. While on his way home from a night shift at work, Dylan Coert was approached on a Port Elizabeth street by a homeless man who feared he was dying. Coert led the man to the Lord and called an ambulance. […]
Bertie Cloete, 47, a real-life miracle marathon man from Cape Town will be leading a team of 12 Christian runners on a unique 70km relay run from the top of Table Mountain to the Mighty Men Conference Western Cape near Malmesbury on Friday, September 23. The so-called M2M (Mountain to […]
Review by Andre Viljoen What Would Muhammad Do? , a 10-part documentary series on the connection between the first generation of Muslims in the 7th Century and modern-day Islamic terrorism was launched in Brussels today, on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks in the United […]