While we are on the brink of the fourth quarter of 2021, both a backward glance and one into the near future, could bring the same musing — how to be a good steward of that with which the Lord has blessed us? (I Timothy 6: 18-19) To everyone who […]
Free State
Heavenly honey harvest in ‘It’s Time’ cross
Standing watch over an open field near Bloemfontein where a million believers prayed for South Africa at the It’s Time prayer day in April 2017 are three crosses. Three miracle crosses. At the time Gateway News posted a story about how God sovereignly ordained where and how and when the […]
Passionate cross walker preparing for another Gospel trek
I recently spoke to Edward Pozyn, a man with a plan to walk 536km from Howick in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands to Bloemfontein in the Free State, while carrying the cross of Jesus and spreading His hope. In March last year Gateway News reported on his 324km cross walk to the […]
Reconciliation and repentance on Senekal Prayer Hill – ‘a blueprint for South Africa’
Community members of Senekal gathered on “Prayer Hill” outside Senekal yesterday morning for a special thanksgiving and repentance prayer meeting in response to God’s help in the town during a time of crisis in October Senekal pastor John Mathuhle, who believes God intervened miraculously in the town to turn the […]
The Senekal miracle: nothing could have saved us but God
Be part of special Senekal prayer meeting on December 16 — details below During October God intervened in Senekal in a way that saved South Africa from civil war, said a local church leader. Senior Pastor John Mathuhle of Beyond Walls Community Church told Gateway News that what God did […]
Word Riders motor cycle team blessed to take Bibles to rural schools
Last Sunday 39 motorcycles with their riders and some passengers set out on a historic 6-day mission to take Bibles to schools scattered across the North West province, Northern Cape and Free State. It was historic because it was the 10th annual run of the Word Riders, a ministry project […]
Integrated safety strategy key to development of SA, says Van Niekerk
Experts in various fields of security who met in Pretoria on Tuesday committed themselves to work together and with other role-players to develop an integrated national safeguarding strategy that will be based on biblical values, said Dr Arno van Niekerk, one of the facilitators of the meeting. He said that […]
Mission of prayer, unity to Senekal
At 4am on Wednesday a group of six people prayed together and shared communion at Irene Mall, Pretoria before setting out on a 340km journey to Senekal on a mission to pray and display unity in the Eastern Free State town where tension has been running high after a protest […]
Farmer after fire: ‘Miracles still happen’
By Esté Meyer Jansen — Originally published (in Afrikaans) in Maroelamedia Junior Ferreira, 30, a farmer from Bethlehem in the Free State says that it is prayer alone that saved his mealie crop and feed bales last Thursday after a controlled pasture burn got out of hand. “I am sharing […]
Bloemfontein community inspired to start revival prayer walks
The ongoing wave of prayer walking that started in the Western Cape earlier this month has inspired a community in Bloemfontein to start weekly “revival prayer walks” from 6.30am to 9pm on Sundays. Alerting Gateway News about their first revival prayer walk in Heidedal, Bloemfontein last Sunday, Pastor Rehana Wales of Beauty […]