South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Christian communities in towns, cities and neighbourhoods all over South Africa will unite at 2pm on Sunday, February 28, to pray for an hour into critical issues in our country as they participate in a fresh national prayer initiative called up4sa (United Prayer for South Africa). To date 50 communities have […]
Church leaders in Port Elizabeth took significant steps this week to position the Church in Nelson Mandela Bay to play a pivotal role in addressing an education crisis that threatens the future of children in the region. On Monday evening (January 11, 2016) church leaders, who had been approached by […]
Farmer evangelist Angus Buchan urges South Africans to join him in numbers in Bloemfontein on Saturday, January 30, to beseech God — The Rainmaker — for abundant, sustainable rain. The serious drought in South Africa is placing people — especially farmers — under financial pressure and it is soul destroying […]
The most oppressive regime in contemporary times, North Korea, tops this year’s Open Doors World Watch List (WWL) for the 14th consecutive year. Eritrea and Pakistan rise to their highest levels yet, namely, number three and number six respectively, and lawless Libya also enters the Top 10 for the first […]
The Karoo Mighty Men Conference (KMMC) has given life to a prophetic dream that the farm on which the gathering is held, Renosterfontein, would become a place of rest and healing, according to Jannie and Marlize Moolman who host the event on the outskirts of Middelburg in the Eastern Cape. […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] I had decided, with a few weeks left of the year remaining, and Christmas round the corner, that I would end this column for 2015 with a mild sounding article like “5 books I have enjoyed this year.” […]
John 10:22-23 “It was winter, and Jesus was in Jerusalem at the time of the Dedication Celebration. He was at the Temple, walking through the section known as Solomon’s Hall.” Hundreds of Christians and Jews joined together in worshipping the one true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel at […]
President Jacob Zuma’s recent controversial reshuffling of Finance Ministers caused the rand to fall to record lows against major world currencies overnight — and caused many South Africans’ hopes for our nation to plummet to new depths. But how does God look at South Africa? What is His heart for […]
Originally published in Christian Examiner As if Charlie Brown doesn’t have enough to worry about with Lucy moving the football, now he’s getting censored. Johnson County Schools in Kentucky have told the staff at W R Castle Elementary in Wittensville, a school staging “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” that they must […]
The Grobler family of Despatch are getting ready to do what they love most — taking Bibles to people in remote areas who have a hunger for God’s word. On Saturday next week (December 19, 2015) Eben and Benita Grobler and their teenage children Chantelle and Ivan will set out […]