South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
South African missionary couple Wilco and Lydia Venter have been in Kenya since 2001. Currently they are working with One Collective in the UK and US to bring food, freedom and forgiveness to the marginalised Kalenjin people in a remote village about 210km north west of Nairobi. In this episode […]
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. — Hebrews 4.12 Longing to loveThe cultural narrative of devaluation is a ruthless saboteur of individual […]
More than 50 people, including 40 job seekers, attended the launch of the Jesu (Joy Employment & Skills Upliftment) Club at Joy to the Nations church in Walmer, Port Elizabeth on Wednesday morning. The club, which is a project of the church, in partnership with other ministries and organisations in […]
I recently caught up with Carol Campbell, the Cape Town-based director of Healing Rooms Africa, an interdenominational Christian ministry that promotes restoration and healing as a normal part of Christian ministry. Carol has travelled extensively in South Africa, Africa and beyond to set up healing rooms, to train believers in […]
This is the week where we celebrate Christ overcoming the world and empowering us through his death and resurrection to be a light and mouthpiece of truth. He cancelled our eternal damnation — uncancelling our demise. Hallelujah! Easter is not meant to be just a memory, but a revelation for […]
The Crosswalk is back! On Saturday, Reini Coetzee and four fellow team members will be resuming a 2 000km trek from Cape Town to Musina as they embark on the last 500km from Midrand. The first part of the journey ended in suspense in mid-December, with Reini and David Smith […]
Jesus brings ‘amazing sense of hope’ after years of depression After years of struggling with depression, Steph Petrou felt like “a new creation” when Jesus came into her life. “I honestly feel like a completely new creation. He has given me an amazing sense of hope that I’d never experienced […]
Along with the many stories of terrible suffering experienced by the Jewish people during World War II, a largely unknown testimony of God’s amazing grace emerged from the very place where justice was carried out upon some of the Holocaust’s leading perpetrators. A paean of praise to the limitless mercy […]
I recently spoke to Edward Pozyn, a man with a plan to walk 536km from Howick in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands to Bloemfontein in the Free State, while carrying the cross of Jesus and spreading His hope. In March last year Gateway News reported on his 324km cross walk to the […]
1 400km into their 2 000km walk from Cape Town to Musina a group of crosswalkers have had to pause their Gospel trek after two of them were struck by the Covid-19 virus. Team visionary Reini Coetzee and David Smith landed up in hospital in Midstream, Gauteng after they were […]
