South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
As the long-suffering residents of Helenvale, Port Elizabeth endure the trauma of yet another surge of deadly gang turf wars on their streets, Christian ministries and churches in the area are working on strategic inteventions to bring much-needed hope and healing to the community. Over the past fortnight Christian leaders […]
A 65-year-old man receiving his first Bible from Eben Grobler and Benita Grobler (background) at the church at St James, Lesotho. A Despatch family is heading back to Lesotho next month with 500 Bibles after their lives were changed forever during a trip last year in which they handed out […]
Something glorious happened before the start of a school gala in East London on March 7: 47 learners and two adults were baptised in the city’s Joan Harrison municipal swimming pool complex! The exciting event in the spiritual life of Abbotsford Christian School had its beginnings on January 31 during […]
Nearly 3 000 people have made decisions for Jesus on the streets of Port Elizabeth over the past six weeks through the ministry of students from a local Bible college. One of the students, 42-year-old city businessman and former policeman, Brendon Slabbert says the experience has been “an amazing learning […]
The first Mighty Men Conference Johannesburg tested Victor Lemmer and his team’s faith and determination as it rained non-stop for 10 days before the event, creating havoc with their preparation of the campsite on open land south of the city. “We needed to cut the grass that was 1.2m tall […]
‘Christian Friendly Products’ a South African non profit company that has developed a Christian alternative to Halaal labeling on products, held its official launch in Port Elizabeth on Saturday (March 8, 2014). The company wants suppliers to display its label on their products rather than Halaal labels which currently appear […]
God has been at work, both healing her son and convicting her and her husband to get more involved in ministry to students, said the Zambian mother of a 21-year-old student who is recovering in hospital in Port Elizabeth after falling out of a third floor apartment window on February […]
Resolute Christian pro-life activist Peter Throp has been issued with another summons by the City of Cape Town — this time for parking his so-called ‘pro-life mobile’ outside Marie Stopes abortion clinic in Bree Street, Cape Town on Tuesday morning (March 4, 2014). BREAKING NEWS: The Cape Town High Court […]
Millions of Christians around the world look good on Sunday but switch off from God on Monday, says ‘Monday Morning Atheist’ co-author and Worklife founder and CEO Doug Spada, who will be speaking at a city breakfast at Harvest Christian Church, Port Elizabeth on Saturday, March 15. Once you learn […]
All men from the age of 12 upwards are invited to attend the first Mighty Men Conference in Johannesburg next weekend on a spacious campsite 15 minutes south of the city. The theme of the MMC Joburg will be ‘Taking up the responsibility of being the Prophet, Priest and King […]