South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Restored 2015 men’s annual conference at Gateway Church International in Witbank from September 17 to 19 aims to practically explore and build understanding of what it means to be a Christian man. The theme of the conference led by Senior Pastor Eddie Phetla is ‘God’s TRUTH, the answer to […]
[notice]Patsy Fulton shares her experience as a member of a group from Witbank which participated in Judea Hope’s Guinness World Record Million Meals project in Pretoria last Friday during which sixty five 40-member teams packed a million nutritious meals for hungry people in 48 hours.[/notice]Two buses and a variety of […]
South African ministry couple Dirk and Taleta Coetsee recently visited Singapore and Ukraine to present courses on how to help traumatised children through the medium of play. It is not the first time that the couple, from Petra Institute near White River, Mpumalanga, have been invited abroad to share the […]