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 […]
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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 […]
ACDP MP shares encouraging coronavirus recovery testimony
ACDP MP Steve Swart, who was one of 39 people who tested positive for coronavirus after attending a prayer conference in Bloemfontein three weeks ago, this week shared his experience with Covid-19 “to help others at this time”. He writes: “I have been asked to share my experience with COVID-19 […]
Angus Buchan, wife test positive for coronavirus
Farmer evangelist Angus Buchan confirmed today that both he and his wife Jill have tested positive for coronavirus. They were tested last Saturday after it was discovered that five people from overseas who attended the recent Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast (JPB) in Bloemfontein had tested positive for the virus. Angus Buchan […]
Bloemfontein Christians thank God for abundant rains
In November last year Christians gathered in the Toyota Vrystaat Rugby stadium to pray for rain for their drought-stricken province and other parched regions of the country. At 3pm last Sunday Christians again gathered in the stadium — to thank the Lord for abundant rains that have fallen in parts […]
‘Bridge of blessing built at Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast in Bloemfontein’
The first Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast (JPB) in South Africa which took place in Bloemfontein this week concluded “with a sense of great celebration and triumph — and a feeling that something very significant had happened and we were witnesses and participants”, said Albert Veksler, director of the JPB in an […]