A Port Elizabeth company and a Northern Areas church have formed a partnership which aims to make a difference in the lives of ordinary people in Nelson Mandela Bay through running community projects together with local structures such as educational institutions. Registered as BTD-DMSA Legacy Foundation NPC, the formal partnership between Bay […]
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Expectations exceeded at first God’s Karoo Women Conference
God’s Karoo Women Conference co-founder, Sonja Spies, has been inundated with messages and phone calls following the success of the first women’s conference which took place last weekend, November 7 – 8. 1 300 women flocked to the Willowmore Showgrounds in the south of the Karoo, to meet with the Lord […]
The heart of ‘God’s Karoo Women Conference’
The great women of the Bible such as Esther, Ruth, Deborah and Mary the mother of Jesus, all have one very simple character trait in common: a surrendered heart. They each made themselves available for God to do His work in and through their lives and as a result the […]
Conferences addressing children’s hunger to know God
We are living in an age where children are developing a hunger and thirst for God unlike anything seen before, says Esme Schmitt, a children’s pastor who conducts conferences to train people working with and parenting children. Several prophetic words have been released of a billion children who will have […]
The miraculous healing of a devastated pomegranate orchard
The miraculous is one of the ways our Almighty Creator reveals Himself to us. Recently, I heard of a farmer near Somerset East whose pomegranate crop had been destroyed by black frost, which not only wiped out the fruit crop, but two-thirds of his 30 000 trees. However, after prayer […]
God moving sovereignly among PE’s poorest children since citywide mission
[notice]Margita Marx of the Kleinskool Initiative in one of Port Elizabeth’s poorest areas writes about what God is doing among children there since the citywide Switched On mission in August. Her desire is for strong prayer backing at this sensitive time. [/notice] msovereignly On Friday, August 21 [during the Switched […]
Story behind the cross at the Western Cape Mighty Men
In February this year we published a story about a Cape Town man who smoked and drank heavily who reluctantly accepted an invitation to attend the 2013 Karoo Mighty Men Conference where he was radically transformed by God’s love. And so my curiosity was aroused at the Western Cape Mighty Men Conference […]
Challenging charity walk a journey of spiritual transformation
Vicky van Jaarveld is walking 680-odd kilometres from Bloemfontein to Port Elizabeth to raise funds for different charities, one of them the Emmanuel Child and Youth Care Centre in Middelburg. “As we take on #TheJourney we leave all our failures and disappointments behind, only carrying our lessons learned, renew our […]
Pastor Phumie is reaching deaf people for Christ
African deaf Christian leaders gathering in East London [notice] SPECIAL REPORT by Asanda Katshwa who introduces herself and her story here: My name is Asanda Katshwa. I am a member of Pastor Phumie’s church in Mdantsane, East Lonson We fellowship in my parents’ double garage (My parents are also deaf) , […]
Video ministry launched to raise awareness of occultic games danger
A wall fell over and kids became sick. These were only some of the occurrences at a Uitenhage school in the Eastern Cape recently, after some pupils played an apparent innocent game called ‘Charlie Charlie challenge’. The game has since been banned at the school. The game however, is not […]