South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Originally published by Christian Today Native Christian workers continue to preach the Word of God despite the terror campaign of Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria, with some members of the Islamic State-affiliate even converting to Christianity after being inspired by the missionaries’ courage, Christian Aid Mission revealed. As the young […]
Originally posted in The Christian Institute The Christian missionary, author and speaker Elisabeth Elliot has died aged 88 after suffering from dementia. Elisabeth was born to missionary parents in Belgium, and moved with her family to the US at a few months old. She attended Wheaton College, and then went as a […]
Originally published in God Reports The Free Methodist Church USA announced the release of its kidnapped missionary in Nigeria, Phyllis Sortor. In a statement signed on behalf of the Board of Bishops of the church, David W. Kendall said the 71-year-old Sortor was released by her captors on Friday evening (March […]
Originally published in Mission Network News What image comes to mind when you hear the word “missionary?” Some may picture an evangelist or two braving new territories as they carry Bibles to a tribe that’s never heard of Jesus. Others think of Christians in action: people going to a foreign […]
Mystery surrounds the death of Mark Wilson, a Cape Town man whose body was found by police in a Dar es Salaam graveyard after he went missing while on an overland missionary trip to Israel. Results of a post mortem undertaken on Tuesday, January 20 will only be released in […]
Originally published in Charisma News Time magazine named those fighting Ebola its 2014 “Person of the Year,” applauding the work of medical relief teams, doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and burial teams working in western Africa, where an outbreak of the virus has killed thousands. “For tireless acts of […]
These children from New Hope Centre in Swaziland have spent the past week ministering in schools in and around East London as well at a retirement complex where they shared their messages of hope through their lifetestimonies, song and drama. The children were all orphaned as a result of losing […]
A girl of 12, who was abandoned under a tree 10 years ago after losing both her parents to Aids, will be ministering along with five other children from New Hope Centre, Swaziland, in East London over the next ten days. The incredible story of Jedidah Abraham, is told in […]
Pastors Denvar and Rene Marks, an anointed pastoral couple from South Africa, will be relocating this week, on a mandate to train up leaders and prophets in the churches of the predominantly Muslim country of Tanzania. “We are sad to leave our families and comforts yet excited to be used […]
Main speaker was one of founding fathers of BTN Tobie de Wet, the main speaker at the Bless the Nations Worlds Missions Conference (BTN) that opens in Port Elizabeth on Friday (June 27, 2014), was one of the founding fathers of the annual conference now in its 27th year. He […]