[notice]“I believe that God wants his people to be more involved in schools” says Blessing Marunga, principal of Blessing Christian School in Westbourne Road, Port Elizabeth. He has no doubt that God established this remarkable school with its pre-school, primary school, high school and special needs divisions. How else could […]
Education
Churches hold Winter School in Bloemendal
The cold, rainy days of the first week of the June holidays did not dampen the spirits of 30 learners and a team of students, teachers lecturers and mothers of the Bloemendal Uniting Reformed and the Summerstrand Dutch Reformed Churches staging the first Winter School for Grades 10 and 11 […]
Student Christian group fills varsity lunch break gap
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Christian society Twenty20 Destiny, has seized the opportunity of newly-implemented daily hour-long lunch breaks this year, by offering an array of activities from Monday to Thursday on the varstity’s South Campus. The Twenty20 Destiny society has a vision for campus ministry, which is summed up in […]
Drugs is Gevaarlik peopol, community will be told
Rap, poetry, drama and debate will be used to appeal to school children and their parents in an ambitious community campaign against drug abuse and crime in Port Elizabeth’s troubled Helenvale area. At a meeting this week Pastor Jerome Liberty of Victory Ministries International (VMI) briefed local school prinicipals, community […]
Making disciples through passion for surfing
Fifteen young people live together in a chilled house just a short stroll to one of the best surf breaks in the world. They come from Europe, North America, New Zealand and South Africa. They all love surfing and get to surf most days. But surfing is not their main […]
Books donated to pilot schools to boost reading performance
Literacy and numeracy support materials were donated to nine schools in the Port Elizabeth district of the Department of Education (DoE) this week to assist their Grades 1–3 teachers with the implementation of the Foundations for Learning campaign. These schools are part of a circuit team pilot project which is […]
Funders support PE school started by faith
The shocking pass rate at township schools and a desire to be like “real parents” to orphans and vulnerable children from Walmer Township (Gbera) were enough to persuade Jerusalem Ministries to start a school this year by faith. “So determined were we, that we started our Grade 1 without a […]
Container school taking shape by faith
Six years ago Joe Slovo, outside Uitenhage, was just another dusty, forsaken squatter camp where the children of the poorest of the poor sniffed glue on the street. But God had other plans. Some Christians from Uitenhage and Port Elizabeth started reaching out to Joe Slovo residents in 2005, beginning […]
Wat die kerk in PE oor onderwys sê
Deur Danie Mouton “Die onderwysbedeling in Suid-Afrika, en spesifiek die Oos-Kaap, moet gered word,” blyk uit die terugvoer van ’n wyd-verteenwoordigende konsultasie tussen predikante en pastore in Port Elizabeth. Die konsultasie word beskryf as die mees verteenwoordigende gesprek ooit in Port Elizabeth se geskiedenis. Die hele geloofspektrum, van denominasionele kerke, […]
Vyftien maniere waarop gemeentes skole kan ondersteun
Deur Danie Mouton Onderwys is in ‘n krisis in Suid-Afrika. Dit het met interne probleme te doen, maar ook met die verbrokkeling van die vesel van die gemeenskap. Tydens ‘n ekumeniese gebedsgeleentheid vir die onderwys in Port Elizabeth, het me NGI Bashman, hoof van die distrikskantoor van Onderwys in Uitenhage, […]