South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
The glory of the Lord surrounded them as they sang last week, said Lydia Lincks, one of the members of a fiery worship team I had the privilege of meeting this week. This is not your everyday worship group. The 13 women and two men I was talking to are […]
Making this year’s 499th Reformation Celebration in Cape Town and surrounds unique was ministry in song by the 140-member Eurochoir with choristers from Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland. This international Christian youth choir thrilled audiences at the V and A Waterfront Amphitheatre, at the Reformation Sunday Service at […]
[notice]A monthly column that reflects on living in the Kingdom of God.[/notice] In my line of work, I am approaching a very emotional time of the year. Leading a church that is mostly made up of university students, we are about to say our goodbyes to a good number of […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Life hasn’t been easy for 28-year-old Syrian mother Kristina, a Christian of Armenian descent, who lived with her husband in Aleppo, Syria long before the civil war started in 2011. It was in that besieged city that Kristina gave birth to her firstborn daughter, […]
Originally published in CBN News. Athens, Greece, was once a city of glory, intellect, and progress. Today, the once booming acropolis is no stranger to economic turmoil and uncertainty about how to handle the millions of Syrian refugees now teeming at its shores. Some 97% of the country identifies with […]
Last week we reported on a fired-up outreach group’s fruitful visit to a Johannesburg hospital. Well it seems when the fire of God is blazing in believers’ hearts fruitful outreach becomes natural. Duan van Schalkwyk who led the hospital visit tells Gateway News that yesterday he presented the gospel to […]
City transformation is their goal Last weekend a fired-up church outreach team went to Edenvale Hospital “to go love and pray for people” and got to pray and talk to almost every patient — about 150 people — during the two hour visiting time. “We started going through the different […]
Keith Hickman and his wife Sharon lead a vibrant life group at their home in Cape Town where Keith says they worship God with fellow believers “like they did in the early Church days, breaking bread and fellowshipping”. “And the amazing thing is that God is adding to our numbers daily,” […]
By Ian Siebörger, Team Leader, #BreakTheMould Mission 2016, Rhodes University The theme chosen for Christians @ Rhodes’ 2016 campus mission on Rhodes University was #BreakTheMould, based on Romans 12:2, which says, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind”. When we prayed for […]
Lifestyle evangelism, in which there is little-or-no separation between our everyday life and our obedience to Jesus Christ’s great commission (Matthew 28:19) is Wally Gerstmeier’s passion. Ever since he committed his life to Christ in 1977 he has had a heart for those who don’t know God. And it is […]