South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]Musings around children’s ministry.[/notice] “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.” Psalm 19:1-3 This week I attended […]
Farmer evangelist Angus Buchan says he has a hope to see “total revival” in the United States “starting with the men and spreading to the family, communities and nation as a whole”. Buchan arrived back in South Africa this week after speaking to more than ten thousand men at the […]
The Nelson Mandela Bay Consultation of Christian Churches played host today ( Thursday, November 28) to a consultation discussing “The theology of voting.” The consultation was held at St Stephens Anglican Church in New Brighton and was addressed by Professor Barney Pityana, who is the former vice challensor of UNISA. […]
Launch of prayer programme for elections Delegates from all provinces of South Africa are gathering in Bhisho from today until Saturday for a strategic prayer conference around the theme of ‘Raising a Godly priesthood to establish righteousness and justice in the nation’. A prayer programme for the 2014 General […]
Joshua Generation Church (JGC) is preparing to make a presentation to Parliament in which it will urge the Government not to interfere in the beliefs of the Christian Church in South Africa and to respect freedom of religion and conscience in the country. Parliament has elected a task team to […]
I have been reliably informed that Top TV – renamed StarSat is already broadcasting two hard-core pornographic channels in SA and have every intention of launching the rest publically on December 1. A source previously high up in Top TV informed me that Top TV executives were already receiving pornographic […]
Gateway News launching monthly column to celebrate ‘True Champions’ Men and women who the public have nominated because of their stand against corruption were honoured at a function at the Communitas Auditorium in Waterkloof Glenn, Pretoria, on Monday (November 18) evening. “The idea was not to have a competition, but rather […]
[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] Homegrown photography on the frontline I recently attended the ‘Together Let’s Stop the Traffick’ summit in Ottawa, […]
[notice]Andre Viljoen interviews Annie Chikwaza who is in South Africa to launch her biography, ‘Mother of Malawi’.[/notice] When veteran journalist and author, Al Gibson, emailed me from the United Kingdom and asked me if I would be interested in interviewing Annie Chikwaza, the subject of his latest book, I […]
More than ten thousand men gathered in a stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday (November 17) night, to listen to South African farmer evangelist Angus Buchan who was the main speaker at the second Mighty Men Conference USA. “God sent men from every corner of the USA to Bridgestone Arena, […]