South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published in Christian Today One of 276 girls abducted from their school in Chibok, northern Nigeria by the infamous Boko Haram has just graduated from university – the very thing her kidnappers fought to oppose. “Boko Haram roughly translates as ‘western education is forbidden’,” says Open Doors UK & […]
South African missionary couple Wilco and Lydia Venter have been in Kenya since 2001. Currently they are working with One Collective in the UK and US to bring food, freedom and forgiveness to the marginalised Kalenjin people in a remote village about 210km north west of Nairobi. In this episode […]
In June 2017 I had the opportunity to experience this Scripture from 2 Corinthians 5:8 first hand. My hospital ministry team leader, Maureen, called one afternoon and asked if I could immediately go with her to hospital. There was a lady from Windhoek that was very ill in the intensive […]
As the clouds began to gather overhead, I stood at the farm gate, watching young Maya approaching sheepishly. Her features were not striking in any way and on any ordinary day at the mall, it was improbable that any young boys would turn to look at her twice. Maya was […]
At the end of last week as Port Elizabeth was still suffering the consequences of a protracted, violent taxi strike, a Gateway News reader sent us the testimony below, explaining that “in light of all the negative press surrounding taxi strikes, etc. I thought I’d share a good news story” […]
I was afraid, and I didn’t know it … Eight years of chronic insomnia — going days, sometimes weeks without sleeping — leading to depression knocking at my door every day. I knew that it would destroy me, so it was a daily battle to resist it and try to […]
Last Saturday young mother Danika van der Berg was pushing her 18-months-old toddler in a pram in a Roodepoort mall when she noticed something strange about the child’s hand and the angle of her head. She immediately stopped and discovered the little girl’s face was blue and she was making […]
Back in April 2005 I had a supernatural encounter with the Lord that was so real and tangible that it was life-changing. It led to my complete acceptance of King Yeshua, Jesus Christ of Nazareth as my Lord and Saviour. I was totally sold out. HalleluYah!!! However with change comes […]
Jesus brings ‘amazing sense of hope’ after years of depression After years of struggling with depression, Steph Petrou felt like “a new creation” when Jesus came into her life. “I honestly feel like a completely new creation. He has given me an amazing sense of hope that I’d never experienced […]
In one of two reports posted this week by Charisma Magazine of how God turned a time of pain and strife in America into an opportunity for revival, evangelist Joshua Lindquist writes about what happened when Christians shared the love of Jesus in the midst of rioting over police killings […]