School Governing Body (SGB) Associations and churches in Nelson Mandela Bay have launched a joint initiative to assist communities to reclaim their schools — beginning with a campaign to encourage parents at every school to participate in upcoming SGB elections. The initiative is headed by the Church Education Task Team […]
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Lessons from the Well
[notice]A monthly column by Marcel van der Watt, lecturer in the Department of Police Practice at UNISA, former police detective, and current member of the Gauteng Rapid Response Task Team for Human Trafficking.[/notice] The discourse on the decriminalisation of prostitution is one that I try to follow as far as […]
Auschwitz survivors return to death camp 70 years later
Concern at rising anti-Semitism Almost 300 survivors from the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where over a million people were killed during the Holocaust returned to the infamous site on Tuesday (January 27, 2015) to attend the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation by Soviet soldiers. Mascha’s story Mascha […]
From life skills to eternal life
Upliftment centre provides new hope for unemployed They come for life skills; they leave with eternal life. That is the testimony of the remarkably high percentage of students who make first time commitments to Jesus while attending a Gauteng-based skills training and development centre which offers them six accredited, market-related […]
Generation Impact Bible College Gap Year — Full academic bursaries for 2015
Many young people do not know what their GOD GIVEN PURPOSE is, the reason they were born. This results in many decisions being made regarding their futures where finances are spent studying in a direction that brings no fulfilment. GIBC’s Gap Year is designed to assist with the following: Help […]
Karoo Mighty Men team inspired after gathering at Shalom
Angus Buchan back to lead KMMC’s Sunday session The Karoo heartland is set to change from an arid landscape into a fertile field of worship and fellowship. Those attending the fifth Karoo Mighty Men Conference, which will take place from April 24 to 26, 2015, will have a rare opportunity […]
Revivalist missionaries ready for fresh God adventures
They are passionate missionaries. They are fiery revivalists. They are the devoted parents of five lively young children. Meet Grant and Jean Handley who have just arrived in Jeffreys Bay after years of serving the underground church in China and a year as students at the Bethel School of Supernatural […]
Memorial services for Cape Town missionary found dead in Tanzania
Mystery surrounds the death of Mark Wilson, a Cape Town man whose body was found by police in a Dar es Salaam graveyard after he went missing while on an overland missionary trip to Israel. Results of a post mortem undertaken on Tuesday, January 20 will only be released in […]
Paris attacks parallel fears over growing jihadist threat in Africa
Originally published by World Watch Monitor Several African leaders, concerned by the rise of Islamism in the continent, attended the Paris anti-terror march, on Sunday, January 11. Among the 50 foreign leaders who marched there, African heads of state included those from Mali, Niger, Senegal, Benin, Togo, and Gabon. They […]
Christian media expert at ACM Conference 2015
Prominent US Christian media consultant and culture transformation expert, Phil Cooke, will be a keynote speaker at the Association of Christian Media (ACM) 2015 Conference at the Aviator Hotel, Kempton Park, Gauteng, from April 21 to 23. The conference theme is “Connect Together for the Future” and will focus on […]