Gauteng

Reaching the world port-by-port

[notice]Operation Mobilisation Ships CEO Peter Nicoll is in South Africa training on leadership development. Bonnie Mentel met him in Pretoria where they chatted about unusual ministry opportunities opened up by the ship, Logos Hope which has had more than 3 million visitors in the last three years.[/notice]Operation Mobilisation (OM) Ships […]

Persecution veterans to talk in SA

Persecution mission veterans Dr Nik and Ruth Ripken* will conduct a one-day ‘Servants in the Crucible’ seminar in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town in September. The Ripkens, who are being hosted in South Africa by Open Doors, have interviewed approximately 600 believers who live courageously in persecuted environments in […]

ASA complaint over church billboard

Originally published in news24 Johannesburg – A complaint has been laid with the Advertising Standards Authority about an allegedly homophobic church billboard in Pretoria. The billboard features the naked torso of a man surrounded by the words “drug abuse”, “promiscuity”, “alcoholism” and “homosexuality”. It is captioned: “whom the son sets […]

Arab Christian leader to share on “Arab Spring Revolution”

An Arab Christian leader serving in a closed, Islamic-ruled country will brief South Africans next week about the Arab Spring Revolution from a Christian perspective. He is a keynote speaker at INcontext Ministries’ youth and young adult oriented 23:59 Missions Conference which is being held in Kimberley (July 9), Port […]

Missions are on God’s heart, says young leader after India trip

David McGillivray, a 20-year-old leader at Oxygen Life Church in Port Elizabeth who will be attending the INcontext Ministries 23:59 Missions Conference next week, recently experienced a life-changing and faith-growing missions trip to Mumbai, India. He was part of a church team that went to support a local pastor working […]