As we stand in the eve of one of the most important elections in South Africa I consider the issue of loyalty to be very important for Christians right now. Who or what is the object of our loyalty is something we all need to answer. I know that many people have already nailed their […]

One in five South African secondary school pupils is a victim of violence, including assault, robbery and even cyber‐bullying.  – The Centre for Justice & Crime Prevention 1. Introduction We have become so desensitised to violence that we no longer utter an outcry when we read about the  latest  violent  incidents  in  our  schools.  In many […]

As a pastor in this city we have to speak out clearly about the way our fellow citizens are being robbed by those who have power over their lives. Poverty is a destructive curse, but it is being perpetuated by those who claim to be solving it! Our city is is being paralysed by corruption, […]

It is easy to get depressed when we read the headlines or listen to the news concerning our city.  Violence, crime and poverty shout out that our city’s situation is helpless. Yet there are so many stories of men and women who are living to serve this great city. Last week I chatted to a […]

    Greetings. “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created them both male and female.” Gen 1:27. This verse speaks to all of mankind, going to church on not, believer or atheist. It is an established statement of truth that cannot be affected by our response. This […]

Please pray for:  The proposed teachers’ strike to be averted through good negotiations; the decision to cut more than 4000 Eastern Cape teaching posts next year to be reversed. (Psalm 9: 9 & 10) A mighty move of God in the NMB Church: our leaders to be strengthened & passionate about sharing the Gospel & […]

Port Elizabeth pastor, Afrika Mhlophe, believes that his new book, ’Christianity and the Veneration of the Dead’, will help to set people free from the deception that dead people can influence the lives of living people and will help them discover what the Bible says on the issue. In the book, which took him two years to […]

On Friday, 22nd August, ministers of the Dutch reformed Church met to be briefed by Gielie Noeth (pastor) and Desmond Moore (Chairman of the Board) about the work of this inner city church (formerly the Dutch Reformed Church P.E. Central). The story of the transformation of this church from an Afrikaans white church, to an […]

God loves us and He loves our city.  God had a purpose for humanity, which is to bring freedom, blessing, prosperity and wholeness to his creation, this is who God is. Unfortunately we don’t often cooperate with God and so we don’t see the bounty and abundance that God wants for us. God had a […]