South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
[notice]Victory Ministries International writer Selwyn Milborrow sent in this report about a recent event at the church.[/notice] Pastor Sheryl Brady, preacher, recording artist and a daughter from T D Jakes Ministries’ Potter’s House in Dallas, Texas, had the saints at Victory Ministries International, Port Elizabeth on their feet and praising on […]
Vavi seeks forgiveness from church leaders for extra-marital affair The National Church Leaders’ Consultation (NCLC) met at the OR Tambo International Airport on October 15 and 16 to address a number of critical challenges facing South Africa, NCLC says in a press statement. A think tank of senior church leaders […]
[notice]PETER TARANTAL of OM South Africa attended the biannual WENSA (World Evangelisation Network of South Africa) National Consultation at the Good News, Convention Centre, Muldersdrift, from July 16 to July 18. This is his report on the event. [/notice] About 120 leaders of church and mission in and from South […]
Recently I was among a group of Port Elizabeth pastors and leaders who were privileged to have Deon Pretorius, a sociologist, address us. Deon holds a Doctorate in Sociology and his company, Development Partners supplies and analyses data on social development. The subject of his address was ” How can […]
Originally published in eNCA.com A Methodist minister who was fired from her church for marrying her same-sex partner, has taken her fight to be reinstated to the courts. Ecclesia de Lange was ordained as a Minister in the Methodist Church in 1996. She served her congregation in the Cape Twon […]
The University of the Western Cape’s (UWC) Department of Religion and Theology will host a one day conference themed “The Quest for Identity in Mainline Churches in South Africa” on Friday, May 24, 2013. The conference in Cape Town is the fourth in a series of 10 “think tanks” and […]
Is it a theatre? Is it a coffee shop? Is it a church? The brightly coloured ‘Artuo Teatro’ building in Richmond Hill, Port Elizabeth keeps passers-by guessing. For musician, worship leader, ‘not-a-dominee’, Nagel Myburgh Artuo is indeed a unique blend of theatre, coffee shop and church. It is a ministry […]
The Russian military has introduced a high-tech air-dropped church along with a unit of priests trained in parachuting and vehicle assembly to serve the army and navy’s Orthodox Christian soldiers in the field. The European country claims its airborne-friendly and ready-to-assemble house of worship is the first the world has […]
How do we view the things happening in our beloved country at present? When we open our newspapers and read of yet more murders, rapes, fraud, and road deaths, to say nothing of a government that has failed to deliver on so many fronts, what is our reaction? Do we […]
[notice]Johanita Jordaan shares her personal experience of encountering the church when she was a lesbian, and offers her opinion on how to reach out to homosexuals with the love of Christ.[/notice] After reading the article “Church will be asked to accept gays” in which it is reported that the Dutch […]