South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
When Frikkie Hefer was 24-years-old he found himself sitting crying on a Karoo town pavement, homeless, hopeless, and wanted by nobody because of his years of drug abuse. “I promise you that day, if I could have just got a gun, I would’ve taken myself out. I was just tired […]
Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) is widely known as one of South Africa’s busiest manufacturing centres, boasting a busy port with many imports and exports. Even so, the city and its people bear the burden of high unemployment rates, poverty, as well as a lack of education and skills training. Statistics show […]
‘If we reduce human beings to being simply physical – as Western thought is prone to do – our poverty alleviation efforts will tend to focus on material solutions. But if we remember that humans are spiritual, social, psychological, and physical beings, our poverty-alleviation efforts will be more holistic in […]
By Adam Rondeau — Originally published in The Christian Post “A funny thing happened to me the other day on the way home…” I’ve heard a lot of jokes start off that way, but this time it’s not a joke. It really did happen! It was an average Saturday and I was […]
‘If you invite God in everything that you do, everything is possible,’ says Thembisa Dlamkile. This has been her story since joining Living Hope…. Thembisa was faced with a hopeless situation when her husband lost his job before the 2021 lockdown. They were certainly not alone in their dilemma as […]
Missionary Lydia Venter highlights the importance of making time to connect with village children outside of their daily grind “… and do not hinder them … for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” — Mark 10:13 We are very much aware of the importance of reaching children […]
‘Father to the fatherless, defender of widows—this is God, whose dwelling is holy. God places the lonely in families…’ — Psalm 68:5 Children were created to be in families. That is God’s design and, according to Psalm 68:5, His desire. Unfortunately, statistics show that this is not the reality for […]
Missionary Lydia Venter continues to share about their adventures in the remote Kenyan village of Lomolo. In this episode she writes about building a small children’s library. “… when it was in building … there was neither hammer nor ax [nor] any tool of iron heard in the house, while […]
By Gerda Potgieter — originally published in Devoted Magazine If there is one story that inspired me, it is the story of Emmanuel Taban who, at the tender age of 15, travelled all the way from South Sudan to South Africa, which he reached at the age of 16. Without […]
Many historians concur that the confidence and determination of Alexander the Great can be attributed to one thing: his horse. The legendary beast was an Akhal-Teke black stallion, a horse that ran with incredible speed and agility and could cross vast distances of desert straits without a single drop of […]