South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Tens of thousands of men will converge just outside Middelburg in the Eastern Cape on Rusoord Farm for the Karoo Mighty Men Conference 2015 (KMMC) this weekend. They will arrive in cars and busses, on bicycles, motorbikes and even on foot from all over South Africa in the hope of […]
Seated in the arid emptiness and silence of the Karoo one can hardly believe that within days the area will be filled with tens of thousands of men worshipping the Lord God Almighty. Sitting below a cross planted on a little, rocky koppie overlooking the stage area of the Karoo […]
Women’s conference on Saturday of KMMC Many women have been praying consistently for months for their men to be able to attend the Karoo Mighty Men Conference 2015. Ruthi Van der Merwe who co-ordinates KMMC’s marketing with her husband Ponnie, says that her heart breaks for the mass of […]
“It is like riding on a wave that is breathed on by God” While established business marketing practices focus on commercial principles like packaging the product, knowing the competition and developing product awareness, the Karoo Mighty Men Conference’s (KMMC) marketing strategy turns conventional business wisdom on its head by focussing […]
KMMC speaker Louis Els will bring a word he feels is on God’s heart Men play an important role in God’s Kingdom, because as it goes in the family, so it goes with the nation, according to Louis Els who will bring the Word of God to the Friday-night session […]
For the first Karoo Mighty Men Conference (KMMC) in 2011 the organising committee identified 70 surrounding towns and cities that are in easy travelling distance and could be important centres for drawing participants. KMMC coordinators were appointed in each of the centres. “This number has now grown to over 200 […]
By December 2012, Leslie Scanlen had been invited to attend Mighty Men Conferences twice and twice he had found an excuse not to go. “At the time, my son, Richard, had been confirmed at church two years prior, but found it increasingly difficult to attend church. “He felt that he […]
There is a profound thirst for prayer and counseling among many of the men who attend the Karoo Mighty Men Conference (KMMC), according to Lance Walton, KMMC coordinator of the prayer tent. He says that while the KMMC did not have a prayer tent in its first year the organisers […]
A group of Christian leaders in the Eastern Free State town of Harrismith aim to help people get out of debt and into “a spacious financial space” through an innovative programme that will provide interest free loans and financial mentoring, says Johnny Veitch, one of the leaders. “We call it […]
Over the past four years it has been phenomenal to see the growth in numbers of both men and Churches who attend the Karoo Mighty Men Conference (KMMC) from the Port Elizabeth-Despatch-Uitenhage-Jeffrey’s Bay area, according to Lance Walton, KMMC coordinator for the region. “I have been amazed by what this […]