South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Lydia Venter shares a testimony from the mission field in Kenya of what can happen when God’s people act on dreams He gives them When menopause hit because of an early hysterectomy, my sleep became greatly affected. One night during the course of 2012, I suddenly woke up at 2am. […]
Pictured above with me at my favourite coffee shop in Gqeberha (PE) is a truly beautiful soul. Her name is Melissa Chavura and she waitrons at this local establishment. She has been such an unexpected source of friendship, kindness and generosity to both me (recovering from a nervous breakdown and […]
Earlier this year Julita Kok shared her travel adventures with God in South Africa and Namibia in a series of Jesus Take the Wheel articles in Gateway News. In this report she writes about an upcoming God assignment in which she will travel solo across the length of the African […]
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 […]