South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
When Amanda Ntsumpa started the Elufefeni Primary School in Motherwell township in Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) eight years ago she invited her pastor. Mac Hayward, to minister regularly to the Grade 7 class – which he has done on a weekly basis ever since. Recently she and Mac – who […]
Originally published in Faithwire God can use all things — including a stolen guitar — to draw people toward Himself. Last month, “Let Us Worship” leader Sean Feucht shared on social media his prized 1967 Gallagher guitar had been stolen by a man who broke into his vehicle. A few days later, one […]
Originally published in FaithWire A moving video of an elderly woman being baptised and carried out of a pool by a caring pastor is making the rounds on social media — and the imagery is powerful. The clip was first shared last Sunday by Ryan Burton King, pastor of Grace […]
Originally published in God Reports Stories of older Christians being baptiz=sed are serving as a reminder that it is never too late to take a step of obedience. One of those is Bernice Oliver at Glasgow Baptist Church in Glasgow, Ky. Erdie Carter, senior pastor at Glasgow, said Bernice’s wife […]
Originally published in God TV To lead the whole family to Jesus has always been a believer’s prayer after being the first to be saved in the family. That is why when the news of a little girl who led her whole family to Jesus went viral, it stirred hope […]
Originally published in Charisma News On October 6 630 people were baptised at one service in Thailand. According to a Reach a Village video—posted to YouTube Wednesday by Dwight Martin—that makes it “the largest baptism event ever held among the Thai people”. The baptisms are the result of a church-planting […]
Originally published in Faithwire News In a Facebook post that perfectly proves Isaiah 59:1, a great-great-grandfather accepted Jesus and got baptised, after decades of putting the decision on the back burner, out of sight and out of mind. The decision was spurred on as health issues began to mount and […]
Originally published in Christian Headlines Archaeologists have discovered a 1 500-year-old painting of Jesus they say is the oldest known depiction in Israel of Christ being baptised. The painting was found inside a church in the Negev Desert of southern Israel and dates to the Byzantine empire. The church was […]
As we remember the death of Jesus in fulfilment of Passover, we also celebrate the resurrection miracle of God’s great deliverance from slavery into freedom. And for a bang up-to-date example of that, we need look no further than the testimony of Orthodox Jew Yonatan Perry. Having turned away from […]
About 50 believers will be baptised in front of the Port Elizabeth City Hall on Saturday morning during a service symbolising the burial of the old city and rising up of the new. “To my knowledge this is the first time in the history of South Africa that such a service […]