South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]A monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes in to the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] The life story of Wickes Nortje sounds like something scripted for a movie. From humble beginnings, growing up in Rustenburg and being declared blind by the age of […]
Thousands of South African fans wait in anticipation to worship with Casting Crowns this weekend Casting Crowns, one of the world’s largest Christians bands, will be in South Africa this month. The band will be performing live in association with Radio Tygerberg, Groot FM and Christian Art Media. The seven […]
> Some news just seems too good to be true, but this is not the case with the Message Trust SA, which has announced that it will be holding auditions in Cape Town for its first international act — a mission band that will be based in Cape Town and […]
Music teams from Port Elizabeth’s Blessing Christian School will be reaching out to young people in the city through a free Youth Revival Concert at The Athenaeum, Central from 3pm on Saturday (June 14, 2014). Since launching a music outreach vision in 2012, the school has established three music groups, […]
The Footprints Festival Thanksgiving Service held on Sunday (June 1, 2014) near MorganBay featuring the international concert singer, Hanli Slabbert was also unexpectedly blessed by a rendition of “Jerusalem” by the Forte Gauteng Opera Singers. Festival Convenor, Dawn Field said: “The event is going to remain in people’s hearts for […]
The Footprints Festival being held this weekend half an hour from East London has a stunning line-up of events, yet for Christians, significant is the holding of a thanksgiving praise and worship service on the Sunday (June 1, 2014) Anyone who has attended the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem in […]
[notice]A monthly interview column in which Mike Beets tunes into the heartbeat of Christian musicians and the SA Christian music industry.[/notice] With emphatic style Joshua Na Die Reen hit the South African music scene in 2013, forcing people to sit up and take notice. Their own unique style of stadium […]
By Old Timers band member, Don de Necker The Old-Timers is an unashamedly Christian punk band from South Africa that’s purpose is to give glory to God. We attain to no laurels or acclaims but purely through our music to set an example of faith, to love without judgement the […]
Originally published in Gospel Herald A popular pentecostal megachurch recently took to one of New York City’s most frequented platforms to proclaim the name of Jesus. Hillsong Church, which has campuses all over the world, used 21 of the digital screens in Times Square to loop a video made of […]
Music Review by Ellenor Lotter PLAYLIST: THE VERY BEST OF ISRAEL AND NEW BREED Have you ever been in a battle and you wished you had a weapon in your hand that would not only inspire you to stick it out till the end but trample the head of the […]