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 […]
Church leaders in Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) endorse the Save South Africa campaign and call upon local denominations, congregations and individual believers, to join the civil society movement, say a group of leaders in a statement issued on their behalf by the SA Council of Churches. The statement coincides with a […]
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 — […]
“The purpose of the second God’s Karoo Women Conference from November 5 to 6 2016 is for women to be ‘refilled’ with God. For some it might be to get back into a right relationship with Him, for another it might mean healing, for yet another it might be to […]
When the going gets tough Christian pray — knowing well that our prayers are powerful and effective. The ongoing unrest on South African campuses has prompted a number of payer campaigns — such as a seven days of prayer for universities initiative (#Lordhealourland) taking place from 6am from October 19 […]
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 […]
Next weekend, October 28 to 30, Port Elizabeth is in store for the third KINGdom Manne Camp. The citywide men’s camp will be hosted on Dawson Farm on the outskirts of the city — at the corner of Kraggakamma and Lakeside roads. The camp was inspired and fashioned on the […]
As part of the Jericho Walls 7 Days on the Wall prayer campaign, church leaders in Middelburg (Eastern Cape) have arranged a combined prayer meeting for all churches in the Middelburg Town Hall at 8am on Sunday October 23 2016. The prayer meeting will be opened by Inxuba Yethemba Mayor Councillor […]
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 […]
By Ian Siebörger, Team Leader, #BreakTheMould Mission 2016, Rhodes University The theme chosen for Christians @ Rhodes’ 2016 campus mission on Rhodes University was #BreakTheMould, based on Romans 12:2, which says, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind”. When we prayed for […]