South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
I have always loved fashion. I love expressing God’s extravagance through what I wear. As I was getting dressed to attend a youth conference (Young Saints at Bethel Church in Redding, CA), God told me to wear a pair of funky patterned stockings with my pencil skirt. I was a bit unsure, but I am always excited to see what the Lord has planned. I came to the conference a […]
Lydia shares about some more powerful, defining moments during the Venter family’s missionary journey in Kenya Initially, when we came to Kenya, I became overwhelmed with compassion every time I saw a child living on the street. Because we were also surrounded with needs, poverty and hopelessness in our ordinary […]
In this week’s episode Lydia shares a dramatic testimony from the Venter family’s early mission years during a time of turmoil in Kenya The year was 2008. Life in Kenya – as we knew it – looked different, even after the post-election violence started to subside. More than a thousand […]
In a dream yesterday morning Jeffreys Bay-based missionary Grant Handley walked into a shop with a group of people and felt the Lord wanted to bring freedom to somebody. In the dream they prayed with a person and Grant told him he felt the Lord wanted to bring him into […]
In June 2017 I had the opportunity to experience this Scripture from 2 Corinthians 5:8 first hand. My hospital ministry team leader, Maureen, called one afternoon and asked if I could immediately go with her to hospital. There was a lady from Windhoek that was very ill in the intensive […]
At the end of last week as Port Elizabeth was still suffering the consequences of a protracted, violent taxi strike, a Gateway News reader sent us the testimony below, explaining that “in light of all the negative press surrounding taxi strikes, etc. I thought I’d share a good news story” […]
I was afraid, and I didn’t know it … Eight years of chronic insomnia — going days, sometimes weeks without sleeping — leading to depression knocking at my door every day. I knew that it would destroy me, so it was a daily battle to resist it and try to […]
After 16 years of producing TV programmes and an extensive range of highly impactful audio visual content for farmer evangelist Angus Buchan, Shalom Ministries executive producer George Carpenter — who is also a spiritual son of Uncle Angus — is relocating to the United Kingdom in response to God’s calling. […]
Good day fellow sports fanatics and welcome to just my second edition of Team Talk. I had the privilege of inviting Athi Mayinje into the sheds for a Q & A session. Athi is a pro athlete, a dedicated coach who loves to give back to the game by mentoring […]
As a child born out of wedlock in rural Zimbabwe Lucia never knew her father, was abandoned by her mother at an early age, was despised by her family, kept outside in a box like an animal, treated as a servant, beaten and sexually abused. At the age of 13, […]