Ready, Set, Revival… says a headline on Kimberley’s Jesus Week Invasion website. I encountered that level of excitement and expectancy for what Jesus is going to do in the city next month when I spoke to Jan van Reenen senior pastor of City of Hope Church and coordinator of the […]
Northern Cape
#Hope4SA carries out drug bust on campaign trail
It’s one thing for a political party to say it opposes crime. But it’s another thing altogether to pursue and arrest criminals during a day’s campaigning. While on an extended road trip in the Northern Cape a #Hope4SA team spotted a Gauteng-registered vehicle stopping on the roadside near Karos. Party […]
Chaos ensues as Upington community stands against controversial Bela Bill
Upington, February 23, 2024 In a dramatic turn of events at the Piet Thole Community Hall in Upington on Thursday, the community witnessed an intense showdown over the controversial Bela Bill, sparking outrage and accusations of rigging from concerned citizens. The Bela Bill, particularly clause 39, has been a subject […]
‘Stop killing babies’, says #Hope4SA on abortion law anniversary
The equivalent of 45.8 tanker trucks of the blood of unborn babies have been poured out in South Africa over the 27 years since abortion on demand was legalised in the nation, said new political party #Hope4SA in a media statement today. “The fateful decision to legalize abortion was cast […]
Great gratitude at Douglas rain thanksgiving event, says Angus Buchan
“This was not a case like in the Bible when Jesus said: ‘I prayed for 10 and only one came back to say thank you. Where are the other 9?’” said evangelist Angus Buchan of a service he led in Douglas in the Northern Cape last Thursday to thank God […]
Angus Buchan commends prayer-meeting farmers for their ‘backbone’
“There weren’t hundreds of thousands of people there but they were people who had grit and backbone like stainless steel — like I have never seen in my whole life,” said evangelist Angus Buchan about farmers he addressed at a prayer meeting in the Northern Cape on Wednesday. Farmers from […]
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 […]
Catch-up with Cape-to-Musina cross walkers
Recently I caught up with Anthony Minter one of five men from East London who are wheeling a heavy wooden cross 2 000km from Cape Town to Musina to bring revival and spread a message of hope in Jesus. They had walked 540km when I spoke to Anthony who rides […]
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 […]
Bloemfontein Christians unite in prayer for rain
Thousands of people — many holding umbrellas aloft in faith — united in a day of heartfelt prayer for rain at the Toyota Vrystaat Rugby Stadium in Bloemfontein on Sunday. Against a backdrop of a serious drought in the Free State, Northern Cape and other parts of South Africa, prayers […]