Teachers and principals attending the third National Christian Teacher’s convention in Bloemfontein from Saturday (October 1) to Tuesday (October 4) will be encouraged to rediscover a sense of calling in their work. Christian educators, especially in Government schools, often felt isolated and discouraged, and the convention hosted by the Foundation […]
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Northern Arts Festival founder eyeing next 5-year assignment
As Port Elizabeth’s fifth Northern Arts Festival starts up tomorrow (Thursday, September 22), event founder Billy Paulson is contemplating his next 5-year cycle of “making people beautiful”. In a recent interview, singer, song writer and entrepreneur, Paulson, said he was trusting that within the next 20 days God would show […]
PE school testifies to power of prayer days for matrics
[notice]NMB Metro Prayer Day organisers encouraged by testimony of local school[/notice] A Port Elizabeth school’s matric pass rate improved from 57% to 73% after its Grade 12 learners participated in a community prayer day event in 2008. The school also enjoyed valuable educational and business spinoffs arising from the prayer […]
Homeless need to be heard, says shelter administrator
Sometimes it takes an effort to listen to the stories of the destitute people who take refuge from the streets in the Metro Evangelical Services (MES) shelter in Korsten, Port Elizabeth, says administrator Ian Landman. But every one of the homeless people who ends up in this shelter for any […]
Mrs PE winners ready for year of community upliftment
Prayer and perseverance were key factors in Chantellé Ferreira’s successful campaign to win the crown in the Kingfisher FM Mrs Port Elizabeth 2011 competition. She said she prayed to God for guidance throughout the 2011 pageant, as she had in 2007 when she came second in the beauty pageant-with-a-difference which […]
Jesus Daily is most interactive page on facebook
Jesus Daily, a facebook page that posts daily sayings of Jesus as well as lots of prayer requests, has held its position as facebook’s most engaging page for a remarkable 18 weeks. With 3 419 397 in the last week’s count the page is way ahead of all contenders. With […]
Social media for the Kingdom course
Transformation Christian Network in Port Elizabeth is hosting a social media course designed to equip Christians to harness the networking power of online tools such as Facebook and twitter. The course, which will be conducted over four Monday evenings (7pm to 8.30pm from September 26 to October 17) at Fountain […]
Over 7 million kids lying about their age to join Facebook
By Luke Gilkerson — Originally published in Covenant Eyes It’s called “Smash or Pass.” Boys and girls alike can submit a photo of themselves or someone else to any number of smash-or-pass pages on Facebook. Others then stop by and say whether they would like to “smash” (have sex with) […]
Bet Sheekoom, where captive women are set free
Bet Sheekoom is a Hebrew phrase meaning “House of Restoration”. And for hundreds and hundreds of women who have been set free from drug addiction and prostitution, that is exactly what the Bet Sheekoom ministry in Port Elizabeth has been over the past 10 years. For the current “mom and […]
Student aims to make her one life count
By Marie Beaufain — Originally published in Baptist Press She’s an ordinary girl: brown eyes, brown hair, white sneakers. What makes her stand out isn’t her voice, though her earth-shattering alto is easily distinguished in a room filled with song. It’s not her sense of humor, and the way […]