South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
On Tuesday a multi-stakeholder violent crime task team in Nelson Mandela Bay held its third of a series of “imbizos” to hear from residents in different gang-shooting hotspots in the city’s sprawling, crime-ridden Northern Areas Pastor Timothy Hendricks, a member of the task team and representative of a city transformation […]
Two months ago local churches and the municipality in Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) united to conduct a three-day campaign of prayer and fasting called One People, One Vision, Heal Our Bay. Currently One People, One Vision, Heal Our Bay – a movement that has grown out of the campaign – […]
Twenty to 30 Port Elizabeth pastors and Christian leaders prayed over the city from two helicopters which embarked on a special prayer flights mission on Wednesday. The aerial intercession was initiated by PE helicopter charter service owner and pilot John Huddlestone who decided to put the choppers to fruitful Kingdom […]
Pastors, cultural leaders and community members took part in a prayer walk in Bethelsdorp Extension 31 last Sunday to take a stand against deadly gang violence in Port Elizabeth’s northern areas. The event, which is to be followed by a youth-led prayer walk along Standford Road from the Gelvandale track […]
Pastor Poncho Murguia is a humble man who speaks with a quiet authority. I watched yesterday as about 18 top police and prisons officers grappling with deadly gang violence in Port Elizabeth’s Northern Areas listened intently to him for more than an hour. “I beg you, don’t wait, like we did, […]
Known as the man who transformed the murder capital of the world, Poncho Murguia, of Ciudad Juárez in Mexico, will be visiting Port Elizabeth next week. Poncho will be teaching South Africans how they can play an active role in drastically reducing gang-related violence, the murder rate, extortion and corruption […]
About 500 members of a Port Elizabeth Northern Areas community living in the crossfire of deadly gang violence attended an anti-crime prayer meeting on a sportsfield in Bethelsdorp Ext 31 on Sunday afternoon. While those at the gathering organised by local church leaders called on the Lord to intervene in […]
A prayer rally to seek God’s intervention in serious gang violence in Port Elizabeth’s Northern Areas will be held from 2pm to 5pm on Sunday May 26 on the sports ground in Bethelsdorp Extension 31. Apostle Donovan Arends of Life Abundant Ministries, who says God spoke to him about organising […]
An ambitious family conference planned for St Albans Prison near Port Elizabeth at the weekend has been cancelled by Correctional Services due to internal issues with the prison’s security plan, says the event visionary Apostle Donovan Arends. “It is with deep disappointment that I’m sending this message,” he says in […]
“I am looking forward to seeing hardened criminals and murderers converted and having fathers and sons relationships restored,” said Apostle Donovan Arends — organiser of a family conference in one of South Africa’s toughest prisons. The “Real Men Follow Jesus — Bring Back the Heart of the Fathers to the […]