South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
By Katy Macdonald — originally published in Thislife Online An act of kindness by South African Shell petrol attendant Nkhosisikho (Nkosi) Mbele hit headlines after he paid for the petrol of young Monet Deventer because he was concerned she’d be in danger if she ran out of petrol. The story, […]
Pedro Campbell was sent to prison for the ninth time early last year — but this time was very different. He was back behind bars because of a crime he had committed, as was the case with all of his previous prison stretches. But this time the 35-year-old former gangster […]
“Believers have to step up and lead by example more than ever before and we have to go get the harvest of souls like never before,” said #YTAUnite movement founder and pastor, Kyle Driver, in an interview with Gateway News. Kyle gained attention in Cape Town Christian circles about five […]
A Cape Town Gospel house music DJ caught my attention today when he sent me a WhatsApp with some serious name-dropping cred. Listen to the sound byte below to hear who DJ Prophet 777 landed to do a “drop” for him on Wednesday. What do you think of the DJ’s […]
An American missionary and his Guatemalan wife have been praying daily in a little used chapel for the past 14 years for a revival of Christianity in Wales. Through a series of extraordinary visions and confirmations, Dick and Gladys Funnell became convinced that God was going to revisit the principality […]
Cape Town artist Leonie Brown, a former winner of the Volkskas (now Absa) Atelier award, has turned her back on her dark side which once inspired her art to showcase the light of God within her. But although she wouldn’t turn back to her pre-Christian style her artistic choice has […]
Is God stirring your heart to share your testimony in writing? Then this is an opportunity you cannot miss as a first-time author. Sela — a venture committed to helping new Christian authors to self-publish — is holding a competition that offers Christians an opportunity to get their testimonies published […]
Originally published in God Reports While the discovery of DNA is usually credited to two physicists, James Watson and Francis Crick, there was a woman behind the scenes that paved the way for their breakthroughs by uncovering the complex structure of the molecule. “They would not have won their 1962 […]
A monthly column on purpose, passion and power in Jesus. Very rarely do we get to see incredibly beautiful full circles — today I want to share one with you. Every single person in South Africa knows someone, or of someone, battling with drug addiction. Yet even with such prevalence, […]
Originally published in Morning Star News A Christian mother from Sudan had deep cause for fear last November when her Muslim brother went to her church in Cairo, Egypt with a photo of her husband and asked members if they knew his whereabouts. Muslim extremists from Sudan had kidnapped and […]