A serialisation of a new book by Cape Town missionary and author Ashley Cloete about love across the colour divide in the apartheid era. Each week we will publish a new chapter I cannot say that preparations for Germany were my biggest priority in the months leading up to my scheduled departure. […]
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What God Joined Together: Chapter 2 — Don’t marry a foreigner
A serialisation of a new book by Cape Town missionary and author Ashley Cloete about love across the colour divide in the apartheid era. Each week we will publish a new chapter In the meantime, a girl called Rosemarie was born in the South of Germany and was raised in a world […]
What God Joined Together: Chapter 1 — Getting acquainted with God’s higher ways
A serialisation of a new book by Cape Town missionary and author Ashley Cloete about love across the colour divide in the apartheid era. Each week we will publish a new chapter Until I reached the age of about nine, the world as I knew it consisted solely of the […]
Memories rekindled, mighty sound raised at colourful District Six worship event
Minutes before the start of a combined worship event in District Six, Cape Town last Sunday, believers present heard about the special role the area had played in the history of our country — notably that the Freedom Charter of the ANC was born there and that the Volkskerk van […]
What would Jesus do about the Cape Town refugee crisis?
Special report by Ashley Cloete of Friends from Abroad At the end of October last year, someone sent me this link to a video clip in which children were being removed from their mothers and women were being forcefully removed by police carrying out an eviction order of refugees protesting […]
Road to It’s Time Cape Town — One week to go
Ashley Cloete’s journey through the spiritual history of the Cape reaches modern times on the road to the It’s Time Cape Town prayer day on March 24. Episode 4: Freedom via the Cross Last week we looked at the special contribution of Dr Andrew Murray. The lessons learned during the […]
Road to It’s Time Cape Town — Two weeks to go
Ashley Cloete continues with his spiritual history of the Cape which he believes is building to a climax, of which the It’s Time Cape Town prayer day on March 24 will be a part. Episode 3: Cape churchmen divinely used in global connections Last week we noted how Magdalena, one […]
Road to Its Time Cape Town — Three weeks to go
Ashley Cloete continues with part two of the Road to It’s Time series — a sweeping journey through the spiritual history of the Cape leading up to the It’s Time prayer day in Mitchell’s Plain Cape Town on March 24. Episode 2: The Cape as a battleground of religious forces […]
Road to Its Time Cape Town — Four weeks to go
On March 24 Christians from the Western Cape and all over South Africa will gather in the Mitchells Plain area of Cape Town to pray and repent for the city — in the grip of a severe drought and social evils — and for South Africa. In this fascinating series […]
Cape prayer summit recalls significant breakthroughs in 2017
Last year was a very special year in the realm of prayer with a notable breakthrough regarding corruption, said long-time Cape leader of Jericho Walls International Prayer Network Daniel Brink at the Cape prayer networks’ annual 24/7 prayer summit on Wednesday. The prayer for righteousness and justice to prevail had […]