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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. […]

Fltr: Revs Lourens Schoeman, Bonginkosi Sithole, Samuel Zuma, Kobus Odendaal, and Nkazi Ngcobo   On 19 May Kobus Odendaal, manager of Witness Ministry, met with the church leadership of URCSA Msinga in Ladysmith KZN to discuss the way forward. They were Revs Lourens Schoeman, Bonginkosi Sithole, Samuel Zuma  and Nkazi Ngcobo. How to be a […]

For the past week Kobus Odendaal, manager of Witness Ministry, visited three of our four young URCSA ministers who have been ordained in congregations (in the former Transkei) since 2018. And what a privilege it was to visit Wiseman Calvary at Mthatha, Zukile Bloro at Lusiksiki and Thembinkosi Mene at Rietvlei. They were also part […]

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 […]

Registration prior to the Bible study sessions. They paid a K200/R4-fee that we gave back on the last day after the leader and AnnaMarie checked their files. Every item and the Bible, were taken care of very well! During the sessions, they memorized 2 Tim 3:16: “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and […]

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 […]

Last week Revs. Babalwa Sifuba, Moses Baartman and Stephen Pedro (MSS) facilitated a follow-up workshop for 11 pastors at the Andrew Murray Centre for Spirituality in Wellington. The first workshop (in November 2020) empowered these pastors to start facilitating a Contextual Bible Reading (CBR) on the congregational level and also helped with the development of […]

Christian Audio-visual Action, known as CAVA, is a non-profit ministry based in Harare, Zimbabwe. This ministry started in the 1970s when missionaries wanted to address the needs of the Zimbabwe farm-workers. Sets of literature, audio-cassettes and picture books were made available to farmers with a manual tape player that could be operated without electricity or […]

The Barnabas Fund (https://barnabasfund.org/) in the United Kingdom is a relief organization with a passion for the church in need and tribulation worldwide. On their website it says, “Barnabas stands alongside our Christian brothers and sisters where they suffer discrimination and persecution by providing aid through our partners on the ground encouraging prayer, telling their […]