South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
An Arab Christian leader serving in a closed, Islamic-ruled country will brief South Africans next week about the Arab Spring Revolution from a Christian perspective. He is a keynote speaker at INcontext Ministries’ youth and young adult oriented 23:59 Missions Conference which is being held in Kimberley (July 9), Port […]
David McGillivray, a 20-year-old leader at Oxygen Life Church in Port Elizabeth who will be attending the INcontext Ministries 23:59 Missions Conference next week, recently experienced a life-changing and faith-growing missions trip to Mumbai, India. He was part of a church team that went to support a local pastor working […]
A church in Port Elizabeth and a family in Middelburg joined hands in a simple but profound act of blessing some needy people with scarves and beanies to help withstand the Karoo winter chill. Lance Walton, a Port Elizabeth-based member of the Karoo Mighty Men Conference (KMMC) organising team says […]
Originally published in Charisma News The United States Supreme Court voted to uphold the individual insurance requirement of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List), maintains that Obamacare is fundamentally flawed legislation because it makes American taxpayers complicit in the deaths […]
[notice] A fortnightly column by Anna Heydenrych[/notice] When last did you draw a picture for Jesus? I enjoy painting and drawing so I recently signed up for an art class and attended the first session this week. The last time that I did anything of the sort was while living […]
Many South African Christians have heard reports of a growing number of Muslims in various parts of the world coming to Christ through dreams. But not too many have met such believers. Ds Heinrich Alberts of Hoogland Dutch Reformed Church, Port Elizabeth, met five such Christians at a Bible college […]
Learners and teachers in several Port Elizabeth primary schools have begun to pray together in an initiative that Port Elizabeth JOT teacher Paul Clough expects will spread like heavenly fire to every school in the city. Clough, who had a vision in February, in which he saw the city protectively […]
Renewed relationships is the focus of a national educational convention that aims to inspire Christian teachers to carry on teaching despite the overwhelming odds against the profession. “We are trusting the Lord to bring breakthroughs and healing in this specific area,” says Karen Erasmus, secretrary of the National Christian Teachers’ […]
Calling a new generation to missions in a changing world INcontext Ministries, a ministry focusing on global trends and events from a mission perspective, is bringing a challenging one-day missions conference geared towards youth and young adults to Kimberley, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg in July. “The single biggest challenge in […]
Originally published in Christian Concern A major study has confirmed that the absence of a father figure can be damaging to a child’s life, and that the love of a father is equally important to the emotional well-being of children as that of a mother. The study, which reviewed 36 […]