South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
I write this newsletter from Bloemfontein, where Arlene, I and the “Watchmen on the Wall” crew have been busy meeting Pastors, marketplace ministers and ministering at various Churches. We are also in the City of Roses to record the “Rooftop Worship Event” on top of a shopping mall. Christians from […]
Just over a year ago Eastern Cape businessman Robbie Hift had a vision from the Lord to erect a giant steel cross to deter suicide jumps off the 140m-high Van Stadens Bridge west of Port Elizabeth. The public responded with an outpouring of practical and financial support and today the […]
South African church leaders this week spoke out strongly against “blasphemous” remarks by the ANC Secretary General, Gwede Mantashe over the weekend” in which he compared the political Tri-Partite Alliance (ANC, Cosatu and SACP) with the Biblical Holy Trinity. Apostolic Faith Mission President, Dr Izak Burger said he was shocked by […]
Originally published in News 24 A Saudi video mocking the kingdom’s unique ban on female driving has gone viral, featuring a male performer singing “no woman, no drive”, an adaptation of Bob Marley’s famous song. Nearly 3.5 million people had seen the 4:15-minute video by Monday, two days after the […]
Reconciling people, churches and ministries in Central, Port Elizabeth, to each other and to Christ is the passion of two young women who spearhead a new initiative called MOR For Central. Chantal Coetzee and Leanne Goodberry say that their calling to serve in the historic heart of the city is […]
South Africa’s premier Gospel awards show, the Crown Gospel Awards, will be screened live on SABC 2 on December 17, said World Gospel PowerHouse President Zanele LaMbokazi Nkambule, who founded the event in 2008. She said that during its first five years the big night for Gospel artists in SA and the […]
Jay Jay Eras was a young man who seemed to have everything going for him and he was going for everything. Except he was going in the wrong direction. And unless there was a dramatic change in his life he would end up on the wrong side of the law […]
A Johannesburg woman who lived in torment for 18 years because of a rape and abortion experience when she was a teenager is being used by God to bring hope to hurting people. Mercia Scharneck who launched her restoration, teaching and charitable ministry, Mercia Scharneck Ministries, in Cape Town earlier […]
“If I would go to Iraq today bringing 350 000 visas to go abroad – one for every Christian in Iraq – 300 000 of them would take them. I have seen many Christians fleeing to northern Iraq and from there they try to go abroad. But to go abroad […]
Representatives of Joshua Generation Church (JGC) and the couple who complained to the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) about the church’s doctrine on corporal punishment, as well as other lobby groups, recently met at the Cape Town offices of the SAHRC. Parties at the meeting on October 10, sought to […]