Pictured above with me at my favourite coffee shop in Gqeberha (PE) is a truly beautiful soul. Her name is Melissa Chavura and she waitrons at this local establishment. She has been such an unexpected source of friendship, kindness and generosity to both me (recovering from a nervous breakdown and […]
Testimonies
Julita explores from Cape to Cairo: Episode 2 — The journey begins
Julita Kok is back on the road with God again — this time driving solo from Cape to Cairo on a mission called Kora 2022. In this episode she crosses her first border post Oh my word!!! And here I am writing to you from Ghanzi, Botswana. My journey has […]
Julita explores from Cape to Cairo: Episode 1 — The miracles begin
Julita Kok is back on the road with God again — this time driving solo from Cape to Cairo on a mission called Kora 2022. In her first, faith-building, fortnightly trip report for Gateway News she testifies of miracles that made the journey possible “God is not a man that […]
TESTIMONY: Dedicated prayer warrior fighting greatest battle of her life
In recent years Dr Fay Nqoloba has been at the forefront of mobilising intercessors across Africa to unite in prayer against evils confronting the continent. In this testimony she shares how the battle became personal in 2021 when her health came under double attack. The Cape Town-based president of Warrior […]
Julita trekking with God again — this time from Cape to Cairo
Earlier this year Julita Kok shared her travel adventures with God in South Africa and Namibia in a series of Jesus Take the Wheel articles in Gateway News. In this report she writes about an upcoming God assignment in which she will travel solo across the length of the African […]
TESTIMONY: Girl with the stockings — Lindy-Ann Hopley
I have always loved fashion. I love expressing God’s extravagance through what I wear. As I was getting dressed to attend a youth conference (Young Saints at Bethel Church in Redding, CA), God told me to wear a pair of funky patterned stockings with my pencil skirt. I was a bit unsure, but I am always excited to see what the Lord has planned. I came to the conference a […]
Our big God adventure: episode 14 — Six homeless boys bring Isaiah 58:7 to life!
Lydia shares about some more powerful, defining moments during the Venter family’s missionary journey in Kenya Initially, when we came to Kenya, I became overwhelmed with compassion every time I saw a child living on the street. Because we were also surrounded with needs, poverty and hopelessness in our ordinary […]
TESTIMONY: Overcoming the dreaded virus — David Melvill
The “cold wind” that blew into our lives It doesn’t seem to happen often that people get off lightly from this deadly virus. I was the only one in my group that survived in Worcester hospital. It is therefore with much gratitude and thanksgiving that I look back. It was […]
Our big God Adventure: episode 13 – The blessing of the boy under the bush
What happens when you tell God He may not do something — and He does it anyway? In this episode missionary Lydia Venter share her experience of such a scenario Today I want to tell the story of how we got our youngest son, Teday, or True Davis, as he […]
Our Big God Adventure: Episode 12 — From the deep hole of depression to the ‘one set of footprints’
In the last episode missionary Lydia Venter shared how God brought good out of a brutal attack on them. But there were also darker, lingering consequences of the attack that had to be faced and overcome, she writes in this week’s episode For the first month or two after our […]