Eighteen people responded to an invitation last week to attend the first monthly “Just1Hr Challenge” meeting of people who are willing to give an hour of their time each month to work on community projects in Nelson Mandela Bay. “I was pleasantly surprised by the response to this pilot meeting,” […]
Tag: community upliftment
Blessing back from US with vision to provide solar power to shanty towns
Blessing (Lehlohonolo) Motale, 33, is completing his electrical engineering degree with renewed enthusiasm because he has discovered his God-given purpose in life: to provide solar electricity to poor communities. He discovered his life’s mission while at the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM) in Redding, California where he studied for two […]
PE billboard heralds power of unity
Rush-hour commuters at a busy Port Elizabeth intersection were clearly intrigued on Friday afternoon by the sight of a bunch of people getting creative on a billboard. After about 90 minutes of team brushwork, all of which was filmed by a crew from Rooftop Productions, the billboard message was revealed: […]
Socio-economic data interpretation workshop for NMB church leaders
Nelson Mandela Bay church leaders are hosting a workshop aimed at empowering church and NGO leaders to make informed decisions in order to address socio economic challenges in their wards. Professor Deon Pretorius, a development analyst, will conduct a morning workshop to teach participants how to use data from the […]
Steytlerville ondersteun matrieks en beleef seën
[notice]DANIE MOUTON vertel hoe ‘n dorpie in die Karoo seën begin ervaar het toe Christene saamwerk om behoeftige matrikulante prakties te ondersteun. Dit is ‘n inspirerende verhaal van die seën wat God uitgiet wanneer gelowiges in eenheid dien (Psalm 133)[/notice] Christene van verskillende kerke op Steytlerville het ‘n paar jaar […]
‘Pastor Patrick’ makes disciples, brings hope in drug hotspot
[notice]ANNA-MARIA Lombard chats with tenacious missionary, evangelist, academic and entrepreneur, Patrick Khaoya on his home turf in drug-infested downtown Windsor East in western Johannesburg. — Originally published in www.scratchpages.co.za[/notice] For a change I’m not flagged down by men who brazenly charge up to the car window and elbow one another out […]
E.Cape farmer brothers meeting maths, spiritual needs
Alexandria farmer brothers, Paul and Stephen Fick, who are also both consulting engineers and in their sixties, are helping solve a mathematics teaching crisis in a local township school — and they are involving their church in the lives of the learners. Today the Fick brothers are partnering with the […]
Article sparks divine appointment
It is so amazing to see how God can connect people all over our country, as we saw last week during our outreach to Clarkson, a small Eastern Cape town between Storms River and Humansdorp, near the scenic Langkloof. Last year I subscribed to Gateway News after discovering it through […]
Kingfisher FM provides a voice for voiceless
Hope that justice will be done for home-improvement-fiasco victims before Christmas Will 43 Port Elizabeth families who are the victims of a RDP-rectification project gone wrong be able to move back into their houses before Christmas? Will they be compensated for their floors and furniture that have been damaged during […]
Vroue geniet koninklike behandeling
Op Woensdag November 28 het die opgewondenheid hoog geloop by die vroue van Women in Action, van Wesbank, Kuilsrivier. Dit was ook heel te verstane want hulle het net gewag vir die bussie van Women on the Move 4 Christ Ministries om hulle te kom haal vir ‘n onvergeetlike dag […]