South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
We are living in an age where children are developing a hunger and thirst for God unlike anything seen before, says Esme Schmitt, a children’s pastor who conducts conferences to train people working with and parenting children. Several prophetic words have been released of a billion children who will have […]
By Daniel Brink, Jericho Walls Thousands of Christians all over the country gathered in small groups at homes, churches, schools, universities, businesses, and various other public places on Wednesday, October 28, 2015, to pray for South Africa. A recent increase in social unrest, economic decline, moral decay of the Church, […]
The miraculous is one of the ways our Almighty Creator reveals Himself to us. Recently, I heard of a farmer near Somerset East whose pomegranate crop had been destroyed by black frost, which not only wiped out the fruit crop, but two-thirds of his 30 000 trees. However, after prayer […]
The Commission for Gender Equity (CGE) has asked the Human Rights Commission (HRC) to investigate disparaging comments about former homosexuals that were posted on Facebook by Dr André Bartlett, a gay activist and Dutch Reformed Church minister, and two others, says André Bekker, a former homosexual and founder of New Living Way […]
A visit by Frans Cronje, the filmmaker of “Faith like Potatoes” and “Hansie” fame, who lives in Cape Town, to his friend Franco Smith, head coach of the Toyota Cheetahs, ended-up in the two deciding to challenge themselves by cycling from Bloemfontein to Cape Town’s Sea Point! Frans, Franco and […]
Originally published in Christian Today Life Church Pastor Jamie Morgan strongly believes that Christians should not celebrate Halloween because a day that “celebrates” death, violence and fear goes against everything God stands up for—life, peace and light. Morgan laments that many Christians actually celebrate Halloween. She has seen some churches […]
In a move that has been hailed as “historical”, the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church (“NG Kerk”) last week Friday gave the thumbs-up to same-sex relationships. In 2007 already, the General Synod decided that membership of the Church should be open to all people, irrespective of their sexual […]
[notice]Margita Marx of the Kleinskool Initiative in one of Port Elizabeth’s poorest areas writes about what God is doing among children there since the citywide Switched On mission in August. Her desire is for strong prayer backing at this sensitive time. [/notice] msovereignly On Friday, August 21 [during the Switched […]
In February this year we published a story about a Cape Town man who smoked and drank heavily who reluctantly accepted an invitation to attend the 2013 Karoo Mighty Men Conference where he was radically transformed by God’s love. And so my curiosity was aroused at the Western Cape Mighty Men Conference […]
[notice]Andre Viljoen interviewed Tyrone Daniel, leader of New Covenant Ministries International (NCMI) at the first-ever NCMI World Equip which was held at Rhema Bible Church, Johannesburg last week. The five-day event to celebrate 35 years of God’s goodness in NCMI and to equip members of partnering churches for Kingdom “impact, […]