The Buffelshoek community recently celebrated the 100th birthday of their most senior resident, relentless soul winner and fiery Gospel preacher Reverend Lucy Ngobeni. According to her identity document, “Kokwana Ngobeni” as she is affectionately known, was born in 1918 but she insists that this is the year when she becomes […]
Mpumalanga
TESTIMONY: Can a community be saved in a day? Yes it can!
Can a community be saved in a day? Can it be brought forth in a moment? Accendo Ministries witnessed just such a phenomenon on a miracle-filled day on September 12 when most of the residents of a hopeless, poverty-stricken Mpumalanga village gave their lives to Jesus in a day. Now […]
Mel Tari speaking on revival at national prayer conference in Secunda
Indonesian evangelist and missionary Mel Tari who was an eyewitness to some of the greatest miracles of the 20th century will be speaking on the theme of revival at the Intercessors for South Africa (Ifsa) national prayer conference in Secunda, Mpumalanga in September. The annual conference brings various prayer networks […]
Mighty harvest at second Mbombela Groundswell camp
Nearly half the 190 teenagers who attended Groundswell — an inter-church youth camp in a spectacular natural setting near Mbombela, Mpumalanga — made first-time decisions for Christ at the event last weekend. More than 40 adult volunteers served at the camp, which was marketed to local high schools by Grand […]
History-makers call on God to make us the nation He planned
Patsy Fulton was one of around a million people who trekked to Bloemfontein last week to pray for South Africa – and to make history. Here is her report on this destiny-shaping day. Vast numbers of people trekked across the country to pray together for God to make us the […]
Church group assists at Operation Smile screening days
Operation Smile is fast becoming a household name in South Africa, as more people become aware of life changing operations, done for people with facial anomalies. Across Southern Africa many children are born with cleft lips or palates — a visible facial difference, requiring surgery. Society rarely regards this anomaly […]
Witbank nursery school built from heritage of love
Saturday September 24 was Heritage Day in South Africa. What better way to celebrate it than to open a nursery school, built from a heritage of love? In the township area, closest to the front of the Highveld Steel gates, just outside of Witbank, a small crowd of people gathered […]
God’s ‘little meandering road’ to true reconciliation
Anneke Rabe has long had a heart for unity, for overcoming the old apartheid divisions, for rising above the racial categories of white, black, coloured and Indian to reconcile in Jesus Christ’s name as children of God, as brothers and sisters in Christ, as South Africans. 40 years later…the Church […]
God’s truth pursued at Restored Men’s Annual Conference
It is never an easy feat to rally men and keep men them at a single venue where the focus is mainly to discuss and learn more about issues of their manhood that they all face on daily basis. More often than not, it is much easier for men to […]
Traumatised children’s ministry course inspires missionary teacher
The Petra Institute in White River, Mpumalanga, has trained people from many countries in children’s ministry, but for Samantha Purchase, a trained teacher and missionary in Burundi, it was more than just another training course. It totally changed the way she dealt with children. She did several of the courses […]