“I would like to thank the Fishers, Trainers and Senders (FTS) team for taking us into the communities where we were able to sensitize the learners in schools about forms and consequences of violence. This has been an eye opener for us as law enforcers to touch base with issues on the ground that affect […]
Fltr: Rev. Mateus Luciano (Scribe), Rev. Samuel Kassolo Banda (Moderator), Kobus Odendaal with dr Miguel Nobre (General Secretary) As everywhere in the world, our sister church in Mozambique’s Mphatso Synod, with whom we maintain strong relationships, has to face numerous challenges during this time of COVID-19. The General Secretary, Dr Miguel Nobre shares with us […]
Last year’s theology students and their wives in front of Hefsiba’s main building at Vila Ulónguè On 2 August this year the GSM (Gesamentlike Sendingkommissie vir Mosambiek) had a zoom meeting to discuss important matters concerning the three IRM synods and the well known Hefsiba Institute for Christian Higher Education at Vila Ulónguè in […]
The Eagles Nest Ministries’ team who packed the container for CAVA Some years back, Mr. F. Morris (now late) used to order CAVA literature in bulk and distributed it to mine and farm workers for free. His son in-law Rev. Rob Birkbeck from the USA visited CAVA’s office some four years ago and gave […]
We all know the wonderful feeling of belonging when visited, especially by family members. And this is exactly what Kobus Odendaal, manager of Witness Ministry, experienced when he was visited by members of our sister church in Malawi, the (Church in Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) last week. CCAP Livingstonia Synod On Tuesday 15 […]
“We have more than 40 congregations without church ministers and each year we establish an average of six new congregations. Ten players are like a drop in the ocean,” says the General Secretary of our sister church in Malawi, the CCAP (Church in Central Africa Presbyterian). On 5th June the CCAP admitted ten candidates for […]
JOSOPHAT MWALE THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE (JMTI) SPORTS EVANGELISM MTONYA CCAP REPORT: JMTI Sports Evangelism Mtonya CCAP Report June 2021
The children always receive with both hands (especially sweets) and ZIKOMO! (Thank you!) AnnaMarie de Klerk during her recent visit at KIX. On 12 March this year AnnaMarie de Klerk departed to Malawi for a five week visit ministering to our faith community there once again. She was a missionary in our sister church […]
The RCA (Reformed Church in Africa) grew from the missionary endeavours of the Dutch Reformed Church, focusing predominately on Hindu and Muslim communities of Indian descent. It was officially established on 27 August 1968 as the Indian Reformed Church who later changed its name to the Reformed Church in Africa. (Read more about this at […]
The popular BrightStar course was presented very successfully by Industrial Ministry at the farm, De Eiken, last year. Rev. Jannie Booysen acted as facilitator. During this presentation 22 employees of De Kock Boerdery, including the production and workshop managers (who are, coincidentally, married), received training. Lene November, involved with Industrial Ministry and assisting with the […]
Dane du Plessis, ministry worker of Biblia in Cape Town Harbour, focuses a lot on the wellbeing of seafarers. Having seen and heard of the work Biblia has done in terms of fighting for the rights of fisherman, he was contacted by Margie Mason, an award-winning journalist from New York, early in March this year. […]
BIBLIA HARBOUR MISSION CAPE TOWN: Dane du Plessis has a passion for his work at Biblia and means a lot to many seafarers. Listen to his TEDxCape Town talk at https://youtu.be/IR1PyJLvd10
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From 8 to 10 June 2022 a very important training workshop took place at Carmel Retreat Centre, George. The purpose of the workshop was to train the first group of six of our proponents and one bridge minister how to facilitate a Contextual Bible Reading (CBR). The training was facilitated by Rev. Moses Baartman. The […]
Contextual Bible Reading is making inroads and vibrations under the youth of URCSA Cape in the Eastern Cape! On Saturday 19 February 24 young people of PE Presbytery’s Christian Youth Ministry (CYM) attended a CBR workshop at KwaZakhele congregation in Port Elizabeth. It was facilitated by Prop. Babalwa Sifuba, CBR coordinator and trainer from URCSA […]
Rev. Stephen Pedro in the centre front (with the light blue shirt) and Prop. Zolani None diagonally behind him (with the light grey T-shirt) along with the URCSA Victoria West church council members who attended the workshop. The past weekend our Minister in Synodical Service and Task Team Manager for Congregational Witness, Rev. Stephen […]
From left: Dr Braam Hanekom (Public Witness), Rev. Godfrey Baartman (CEO), Rev. Lucas Plaatjie (Senior Aministrative Officer), Dr Daniël de Wet (Ecumenical Partnerships in Africa), Ms Carin Brink (Industrial Ministry) and Rev. Stephen Pedro (Congregational Witness) “The past week two important meetings, of which Witness Ministry was part of, took place,” says Rev. Stephen […]
Fltr: Revs. Soga, Masele, Ntshabalala, Sifuba, Pedro, Bloro and Calvary The past weekend (29 to 31 October) Rev. Stephen Pedro (Manager of Congregational Witness and project manager of CBR Cape) and Rev. Babalwa Sifuba (CBR coordinator and trainer) had a Training and Planning Workshop with the cluster leaders of the presbyteries of the Eastern […]
Fltr: (Back) Rev. Stephen Pedro and Prop. Msawenkosi Ntshongwana. (Front) Rev. Danny Bock, Mrs Bock, Prop. Rachel Linderoth, Prop. Bulelwa Potwana, Prop. Zolani None and Prop. Pieter André Windvogel “This weekend gave us (me) hope that the Church has not forgotten about us. It equipped us with a reset, re-imagined, refreshed button, especially through […]
From 28 to 30 July Rev. Stephen Pedro (MSS) with the assistance of the two CBR implementers, Revs Babalwa Sifuba and Moses Baartman, and Revs André Agenbag (MSS) and Bossie Muller (Communitas Trainer) facilitated a workshop at the AMCS in Wellington with a group of URCSA Cape bridge ministers. At the recent SC meeting, Rev. […]
URCSA Msinga’s School Christian Group committee URCSA Msinga has a very lively youth ministry with vibrant and enthusiastic leaders. There are five full-time life coaches who are employed by eThembeni of whom Nkazimulo Ngcobo is part of. Nkazimulo Ngcobo shares with us the following good news: “We would like to express our deepest gratitude for […]
Revs. Louwrens van der Westhuizen and Dalisu Kunene, Elder Lucky Kunene and Kobus Odendaal Last week, Kobus Odendaal, manager of Witness Ministry, visited URCSA Makhathini. Rev. Louwrens van der Westhuizen (who ministers here since June 2007) introduced Kobus to a couple of their church leaders and projects, and they had very informative and insightful discussions. […]
Hi there! I am Noxolo W. Fihla, a proponent of URCSA waiting to be called to a congregation. I am a strong believer that the power of nature lies in this; that it gives back what has been given to it. If we preserve nature, it too in turn will preserve us. It is a […]
It is with great pleasure that we welcome Shaneeze Dilgee (URCSA Lavender Hill) and Frikkie Marais (DRC Napier) on board of our Green Team. May you enjoy the energy and enthusiasm of our team and may the Lord use our input in various ways to help people to think GREEN and help to preserve our […]
Earth Day is a movement that is more than 50 years old and first started in 1970. The mission of Earth Day is to champion diversity, educate people and activate a worldwide environmental movement. At the moment it is the world’s biggest environmental movement working together with more than 75 000 partners in more than […]
CLF (https://clf.co.za/) included this important opinion piece on ecology, written by Elise Tempelhoff, in their series on “Pastoral Tools for the Covid-19 time” (see https://clf.co.za/christian-resources/) – a must-read. Elise is a renowned environmental specialist journalist. The CLF-Elise Tempelhoff Prize for Ecology, as part of the prestigious Andrew Murray Prize Fund, carries her name. The 2020 […]
Maybe the COVID-19 challenge is giving us opportune time to talk about poverty. COVID-19 is leveling the playing fields – confronting all of humanity with the reality of our communal and individual poverty. “While the word ‘poverty’ is a negative term that immediately connotes deprivation and dependency … it is probably the most appropriate word […]
Please follow this very inspiring FAST FOR EARTH in lent, and make your life a joyful experience: Fast for the Earth
I was completely unaware of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report that was to be released on 8th of August 2019 when I wrote my two previous contributions for VrydagNuus on the need for changing our human diet. The English language calls such synchronized events (without human involvement) serendipity and normally they happen […]