South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
The annual Bonnaroo music festival in an open field in Manchester, Tennessee, draws tens of thousands of people from all of the US for four days of music, drugs, drunkenness and debauchery, says Larry Tomczak, in an article in Charisma News. Not exactly the sort of place for Christians to […]
Churches and Christian mission groups are joining hands next week to host an exciting carnival-style crusade in Manenberg, a Cape Town neighbourhood plagued by gang violence. All believers from the Manenberg and immediate surrounding areas are invited to attend the “We Are His Children Festival” on Wednesday April 5 and […]
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 […]
Operation Smile is fast becoming a household name in South Africa, as more people become aware of life changing operations, done for people with facial anomalies. Across Southern Africa many children are born with cleft lips or palates — a visible facial difference, requiring surgery. Society rarely regards this anomaly […]
Homeless ministry Acts of Bravery certainly had a brave start. While on his way home from a night shift at work, Dylan Coert was approached on a Port Elizabeth street by a homeless man who feared he was dying. Coert led the man to the Lord and called an ambulance. […]
The upcoming Disney feature film Queen of Katwe, which was filmed in South Africa and Uganda, tells the inspiring true story of Ugandan teenager Phiona Mutesi and her mentor, missionary Robert Katende, who transforms children’s lives through the game of chess. Queen of Katwe is based on the book The Queen of […]
A group of approximately 20 enthusiastic young members of the Youth Back to God (YBTG) movement ministered to vulnerable people of all ages at the Emmanuel Centre in Motherwell, Port Elizabeth last Saturday. Their goal in conducting services for a group of preschoolers and disabled teenagers and a second group of […]
Originally published in Christian Today Next month’s ‘Reason Rally’ in Washington is expected to attract around 20 000 atheists, including actor Johnny Depp and other big-name speakers like Bill Nye and Lawrence Krauss. As well as fiery speeches against religion, however, participants in the June 4 event will be given […]
Originally published in Assist News Service CAIRO, EGYPT (ANS – April 19, 2016) — Despite the threat of government protests, thousands of people went to hear Dr Michael Youssef preach at Kasr el Dobara Church in Cairo, Egypt, this past weekend, with hundreds of people giving their lives to Christ […]