South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
East London worship musician/ songwriter Jean du Rand has released a song, Garden which he says is the first of a series of singles that “have been birthed out of a place of journeying with Yahweh into a place of intimacy, where all structures of performance and strife fade away […]
South African songwriter Stefan Green who has co-written songs such as Grateful and I Can’t Believe with Elevation Worship, Steve Furtick and Chris Brown is releasing his first solo single ‘Battlefield‘ on Friday. A worship leader at Hillsong South Africa, Stefan went to school in Cape Town and college in […]
TWR Africa is partnering with a brand-new Christian satellite network to expand the reach of a popular music and commentary radio programme across most of the African continent. Worship Connection, produced by the African branch of global media ministry TWR (also known as Trans World Radio), will air five days […]
I have a sneaking suspicion that many people, especially pastors and preachers, could write relevant songs to support their sermons, but they don’t realise it. Yet this is not such a difficult challenge as one might imagine. As I opened my Bible for my devotional reading the other day, God’s […]
In the Q&A interview below Gateway News finds out more about the life, faith and dreams of KwaZulu-Natal Gospel musician Esihle Siwela and about his new single Ingeyakho Please can you tell us more about your spiritual background and relationship with God — where does it all stem from? Singing […]
Israeli musician and former elite IDF commando unit captain Yair Levi and born-again Lebanese Singer Carine Bassili, have begun a historic dialogue through music. Their Arabic versiion of Yair’s already successful song Refa Na has gone viral and provoked both positive and negative reactions especially within Israel and Lebanon, as […]
Why must we practice so much? “At my Charismatic church the band usually practices maybe an hour a week. Then on Sunday these guys warm up for 15 minutes before the service starts. At my previous church the organist simply played the music and we sang the hymns along with him. Is […]
Multiple award-winning worship leader and recording artist Sinach, is set to release her new 13-truck album titled Greatest Lord. It features a series of high-profile partnerships with various spirit-filled Gospel stars including Travis Greene, Micah Stampley, Darlene Zschech, Leeland, Maranda Curtis, Nathaniel Bassey, Jekalyn Carr and others. Including two already-released […]
One of the most influential factors which people take into account, when deciding which church to attend, or even to join, is ‘the church’s music ministry’. And there’s such a range to choose from: from hyper-conservative churches where the hymn-and-a thing led by the organ music style of the 1950s […]
Acclaimed South African Gospel singer M’abatho Mashaba has released a new single titled Mobagona through which she assures the nation of God’s love and presence in this difficult time. In writing the song, she says she aimed to bring comfort to those who are at close to losing hope, due to […]
