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By Doug Crutchley
Article
January 2011
South Africa
World Mission – A remarkable mission field
A remarkable mission field More than half the 6.6 billion people on our planet already live in cities, and this proportion is set to increase to 70 per cent of the world population by 2050. According to United Nations forecasts, the number of megacities – metropolises with a population of more than…
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Article
September 2009
South Africa
Missionary Spotlight – Street evangelism in South Africa
Street evangelism in South Africa The January 2000 edition of ET carried a full-length article on the literature ministry of Doug Crutchley ([email protected]), in South Africa, which began in 1996. Since then, after ten years full-time evangelistic outreach, Doug has distributed many more thousands of pieces of Christian literature in such places as…
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By Erroll Hulse
Article
April 2007
South Africa
Africa-style conferences in South Africa
The purpose of these conferences is to provide a high standard of expository preaching and supply books at affordable prices for pastors. Such books are like gold to the majority here, who have very few books. Our aim is for these Evangelical Press-sponsored conferences to become annual events and provide great inspiration, fellowship and…
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By Alan Levy
Article
April 2004
South Africa
Missionary Spotlight – Blessing in Kwazulu Natal
Hillcrest is a small but growing town in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, some twenty miles inland from Durban. Its Baptist church, pastored by Jonathan Holdt, has a morning congregation of about 80 people. On the wall above the church door you see these words as you leave: ‘You are now entering the mission field’.…
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By Sheena Tyler
Article
September 2002
South Africa
Zulu Warrior orphans
A massive 2½ million children have been orphaned by the HIV epidemic in South Africa. As a response to the desperate needs, young Zulu Warrior orphans gave a spectacular Commonwealth Games-style art and culture performance at 30 venues throughout England this summer, to raise funds for their AIDS orphanage. Dressed in traditional Zulu…
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Article
June 2002
South Africa
John Blanchard in SA
John Blanchard has recently returned to the UK from a remarkably fruitful tour of speaking engagements in South Africa. Organized by the Alpha and Omega Trust in conjunction with Christian Book Discounters, the tour took him to several towns in the Johannesburg and Pretoria area, to the south coast town of George and to…
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By Christo Beetge
Article
July 2000
South Africa
MISSIONARY SPOTLIGHT-South Africa
South Africa – a personal view It does not take deep analysis to realise that Evangelicalism in South Africa is in decline. But my own recent travels in the USA convinced me not only of that fact, but also that Africa is in spiritual crisis. With poverty, disease (HIV, AIDS, TB, Malaria etc.) and…
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By Errol Wagner
Article
July 2000
South Africa
MISSIONARY SPOTLIGHT-South Africa
Theological trends in South Africa The changing political situation in South Africa has given rise to major changes in theological education over the past decade, changes that are in line with worldwide trends. Until about ten years ago, anyone wanting to train for the Christian ministry or the mission field could enrol at a…
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Article
May 2000
South Africa
Sikhono
On a recent return visit to South Africa late last year we had the opportunity and privilege of seeing first hand a small but exciting Reformed work in the town of Butterworth, in the Eastern Cape Province. We set off early in the morning from Durban and headed due south. Most of the major…
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By Ronald Kalifungwa
Article
March 2000
South Africa
Missionary Spotlight – The Church in South Africa — A Plea
Although Portuguese Catholics predated the Dutch in landing at the Cape of Good Hope, the history of the gospel in South Africa really began with the arrival of the Dutch in 1652. These were followed by the French Huguenots (1668) and by early German settlers. Most of these settlers were Protestants, while the Dutch…
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March 2000
South Africa
Missionary Spotlight – South Africa – Fact File
South Africa – Fact File Area: Over 471,000 square miles. Neighbouring countries: Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Lesotho. Climate and terrain: A large interior plateau, with various plains (velds), is rimmed by rugged hills. The interior is semiarid, but conditions are subtropical along a narrow, eastern, coastal plain. Drought…
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